Out and About on your Laverda.No bull,Just photos

78jotadave said:
The photo (Puno, Lake Titicaca) shows plastic jerry cans in use as panniers, the smaller can was used as a reserve fuel can and was used many times in South America. The jerry can panniers were extremely strong and suffered very little road damage if you threw the bike down the road. As Rob said they were cheap as chips around 7-10 $AUS, just make your own rack. The smaller can was metal.
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Hey Dave, I was sitting in a park in Santiago, Chile eating Danish blue vein and drinking Cab Sav when I heard and then saw a black Laverda triple pass around two sides of the park. Late1980 or early 81. Could that have been your good self?
 
CapnM said:
Hey Dave, I was sitting in a park in Santiago, Chile eating Danish blue vein and drinking Cab Sav when I heard and then saw a black Laverda triple pass around two sides of the park. Late1980 or early 81. Could that have been your good self?
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Blue vein and cab sav..... love your choices.

I’ve seen The FK 1200 ride through the middle of a park, luckily no picnickers were out at the time. 😁
 
CapnM said:
Hey Dave, I was sitting in a park in Santiago, Chile eating Danish blue vein and drinking Cab Sav when I heard and then saw a black Laverda triple pass around two sides of the park. Late1980 or early 81. Could that have been your good self?
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Hi well the odds are pretty good that it was me I did spend a fair amount of time in and around Santiago before heading south to Puerto Monte and Isla Chiloe but I froze my arse off down there and got waterlogged so back to Santiago area dried out in Valparaiso. I was there in July 1980, I did spot a green 3CL thundering down a Boulevard in Santiago I was walking at the time so he was gone pretty quickly.
 
Fantastic! I had left my 3CL in Adelaide South Australia to travel Central and South America for a year. When I bought it it was an orangy red, which did not appeal to me. I had it painted black with gold pin stripes. Back packing through those countries I had not seen a decent bike for a year and a half and lived as cheap as possible to go as long as possible. To treat ourselves with European cheese and great Chilean red (80c a bottle then) was rather good and then to see and hear your Laverda - well it blew my tiny mind! I didn't return home for 4 and1/2 years.
 
Nothing to tell CK, just commenting that you have a current West Oz laverda owner sitting in a square in Chile and along comes a 3C which
[ "and then to see and hear your Laverda - well it blew my tiny mind!"]
was wearing a west oz number plate, how about that for blown ya mind.
 
I have a black and gold 3CL tank, and most of the bike, bar the donor engine that was used for another build. Mind you, I think the last owners tool kit consisted of an adjustable crescent, and a screwdriver and hammer. The tank had been pained black with gold pins over a redish orange I've never seen on a Lav (at first I thought it was that Red Oxide stuff).
Is why I asked what happened to it.
 
chrisk said:
I have a black and gold 3CL tank, and most of the bike, bar the donor engine that was used for another build. Mind you, I think the last owners tool kit consisted of an adjustable crescent, and a screwdriver and hammer. The tank had been pained black with gold pins over a redish orange I've never seen on a Lav (at first I thought it was that Red Oxide stuff).
Is why I asked what happened to it.
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The bloke that painted it did a great job. Even recessed the gold stripes so that there was no ridge above the black paint.
 
chrisk said:
Just looked at the one I have, the gold stripes are higher than the black, and my fingernail can even pull chips off ..... lucky Chip!
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My Monty I bought as baskets of bits and rebuilt in England in a squat in Brixton South London about 81,82. Didn't like the orange...hand painted with rattle cans and gold pinstriping came in rolls and was hand applied. Tried clear sealer but it failed 3 times (blooming) and heating the cans didn't work like it did with the paint so I gave up.
 

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