Out and About on your Laverda.No bull,Just photos
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piranha-bro2
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Some great pics there. Love the flock of SFCs!! I wonder if the factory forgot to put that spacer between the sprocket carrier bearings in your Elettronica, Paul. Horrendous oversight if they did!! Ready to race, eh??? 
mauricejota7604
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- Victoria Australia
Looks like you have established a real good relationship with your new bike there, and great to see that she is not a seasonal girl and ridden all the time!!!!!!
motoddrob
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Do we get to see it in Dumbleyung end of April? I did notice you have booked a room at the pub.
Diablo Loco
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- Western Australia
Waiting on WAPOL for the latest plan to get the bike back to WA. G2G application is pending to ride back via Kununurra, camping isolated at Ngumban Cliff, De Grey south of Pardoo and the Gascoyne stop north of Meekatharra then to Perth for quarantine. WAPL saying they'll assess after 5/2... Plan B is fly back, return to NT before easter, ride to Mt Gambier then head back to Perth. Surely by Easter I'll be able to get the bike in.
Plan Z, ride my chookie down
Diablo Loco
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- Western Australia
Yes, pretty much rotation with a DRZ400SM as daily runner is the plan. DRZ for the short trips. Got back lunchtime today from 860k's since Tuesday arvo. Due for an oil change.
chrisk
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- Brisbane, Australia
Sort of why we are here.
My son has toys I could only dream of, good for him, my job on him is done. A little nurturing of grandkids and bury me, happy.
chrisk
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Meatloaf played that…. Didn’t help him.
chrisk
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Never notice the 300mm ‘degrees of separation’ of the triple trees before! Jesus, that is huge
Diablo Loco
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- Western Australia
YeahNahFkThat...
Diablo Loco
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- Western Australia
Dellortoman
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Reminds me of an old workmate of mine. When someone suggested to him that his car needed a wash, he looked up at the dark rain clouds approaching and said "Nah. I'll let God do it"
Andy
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15km of twisties and arrived at a nice little glade… didn’t stop, just turned around and did it again. Stopped the second time for a rest and photo, jeez it’s hard work wrestling these things through tight roads, but great fun 
The Sock
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- London, England
Another beautiful day to be alive and own a Laverda.
piranha-bro2
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- Melbourne
Reminiscent of some of the water I came through on my SF1 travelling up the Bruce from Lismore and then across to Three Ways and up to Darwin in January '75 or '76. But in places it was much much longer, far more isolated and scary. Nearly washed off a floodway just after leaving the Bruce and heading west. Had to stall it and a guy in a Land Rover came and helped me across. Young and stupid. Daly Waters was nearly 1 mile wide floodwater - local cop helped me across there. Bike strip and with help pushed across a major flood after the Isa. Many more tales of adventure on that trip!!
Great to see a Lav filthy from hard use!!
Diablo Loco
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- Western Australia
In the past I would have walked the bike through Fly Creek but not any more. Big lizards everywhere.
piranha-bro2
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We were oblivious to the big lizards back then! Shudder to think how close some of them may have been, sniffing us out!
The prob with flowing water crossings is the sheer power of the water to drag you sideways. I had 4 people helping me get through the 1m+ deep water on that Isa-Three Ways road - bike stripped and inlet-exhaust-breather orifi sealed off as well as i could - it worked - reassemble and vroom! Many envious car drivers in the lines on either side as i howled off into the west and many more scary flooded sections (and not a soul to help me if i struck trouble). Saw them push on a Kingswood through, water over the door sills, car floating and they nearly lost it with the flow - no idea if it started on the other side. Hughenden-Cloncurry was a train trip - dirt road submerged by 1m+ of flood water visible to the horizon, train line elevated. Nothing getting through. What a trip!!
The prob with flowing water crossings is the sheer power of the water to drag you sideways. I had 4 people helping me get through the 1m+ deep water on that Isa-Three Ways road - bike stripped and inlet-exhaust-breather orifi sealed off as well as i could - it worked - reassemble and vroom! Many envious car drivers in the lines on either side as i howled off into the west and many more scary flooded sections (and not a soul to help me if i struck trouble). Saw them push on a Kingswood through, water over the door sills, car floating and they nearly lost it with the flow - no idea if it started on the other side. Hughenden-Cloncurry was a train trip - dirt road submerged by 1m+ of flood water visible to the horizon, train line elevated. Nothing getting through. What a trip!!
Diablo Loco
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- Western Australia
Yep, I got washed into a hole on the marrakai crossing in a commodore a few years ago. Swimming underneath to hook up a tow rope watching for the big croc we knew was there was stupid. Being eaten is better though than ending up on the front page of NT News for drowning a car.