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

[piranha-bro2]

And the destination. A nice stout that travelled the last 20k in the backpack, fire going and about to heat up my gourmet pie and pastie dinner, all on me tod while the wind roars and the rain comes down.

 

[Jo]

And the destination. A nice stout that travelled the last 20k in the backpack, fire going and about to heat up my gourmet pie and pastie dinner, all on me tod while the wind roars and the rain comes down.

It seems to me that your hands were still shaking a little after you arrived. At least when I look at the picture ...

 

[Vince]

Give it a google, there is lots there. Kent of the Atlanta shop has been in business for decades, ditto Peter in Boston. The GMD stands for Greg McDonald of Sydney Australia, the man who developed and marketed the system.

Greg raced a Laverda triple in the 6-hour production race at Amaroo Park, I tried to convince him to join here and do a post but it never happened.

 

[Vince]

I guess I conflated an Insurance write-off, here in NSW that means you cannot ever fix it and reregister it and being able to be repaired in an engineering way. It just stopped happening here. Insurance Written off road bikes have only one future, track only.

 

[78jotadave]

Out and about, temporarily as the bike suffered fueling issues shortly after the pictures were taken and has been sidelined for a week or so until I get back up to North Idaho to fix it. Photos taken at Coeur d Alene Idaho, one image shows Interstate 90 passing over an arm of the lake, beautiful riding country.

 

[Andy]

It seems to me that your hands were still shaking a little after you arrived. At least when I look at the picture ...

I thought it might have been the stout

 

[piranha-bro2]

Bad light car iPhone camera. The stout came once the fire was going

 

[piranha-bro2]

Coffee and breakfast run. Nicer weather but still cold and very wet roads. Wilson’s Prom in the distance.

 

[chrisk]

I thought it might have been the stout

No…. that looks like his bike outside a house. A blurry beer picture looks like this.

 

[Andy]

No…. that looks like his bike outside a house. A blurry beer picture looks like this.

Old fart!

 

[sfcpiet]

Coffee and breakfast run. Nicer weather but still cold and very wet roads. Wilson’s Prom in the distance.

Blimey Quentin,

That sure is a grubby bike!

I notice that's becoming your favourite photographic angle. Hope all is now well.

piet

 

[Vince]

How were those cut slicks in the wet?

 

[Andy J]

Werner from the Laverda museum and his mates Alex and Paulo getting whiplash watching the ‘insane’ Superbikes at the bottom of Bray Hill. We then travelled up to the top of Barregarrow for the fantastic Supersport race won by Michael Dunlop, to equal Uncle Joey’s race win record, before moving onto Brandywell to watch the even more ‘insane’ sidecar racers. They were in the right place to watch #12 sidecar team, Daryl Gibson and Tom Christie, get it wrong going into the bend on the first lap, ran wide, got the wheel on the grass at the side of the road, lose control and disappear out of sight as they went off down the bank. Fortunately they emerged unscathed, other than looking like startled rabbits caught in the headlights!
All in all they said they had a fantastic day...

 

[Andy]

the bottom of Bray Hill

 

[huey]

GMD, I bought a Bert Kingston big bore kit 464 for Honda 400/4 , from Greg when he shared a shop in Homer St Earlwood ,
The honda engine was built in Annandale , was a weapon until a 492 kit in an another 400/4...A bit faster than the RE with the pressed metal girder front end....The Hondas were great commuters from Canberra to Sydney every second weekend.
I got to know the coding specialist Fred [and his partner], that and who helped Greg make the digital arm work later on the Computrack....
Dr.Andrew McNaugtan Lav racer and Timor Activist lived nearby growing up in Sydney and helped with a sf 750 that I was riding..he met Greg and who help with early race bike frame repairs until an accident.
Later Andrew, after being away from bikes doing volunteer work in central america climbed on the Terry Prince framed Lav for Bathurst. Ballsy

what hill Andy J

 

[Alzero]

Is Greg still with us? I have no idea what ever happened to him….

 

[Vince]

I spoke to him on the phone maybe 3 years ago to get info about the Cesnock bloke doing Computrack work. We chatted about his Laverda racing. His contact details are on their website

G.M.D. Computrack - HOME

 

[piranha-bro2]

Just home from the beach house. No pics - most of it was night riding with a below par high beam on tortuous mountain roads via Korumburra (didn't stop for a mushroom omelette) - Warragul - Noojee - Powelltown - Yarra Junction 280km home without missing a beat. But my fukn helmet visor!!! Bad enough sharing those roads at night with the wombats and roos (luckily I didn't see any - only a possum that dashed across 30m in front of me), but the visor on my fab Kabuto helmet is a piece of shyze.

On the way down in the rain I used the little windscreen wiper on my left glove to clear the visor but it became so scratched and degraded that nothing would fix it. I had to ride home in 5 deg temps through constant undulating curves from posted 45-85kph in dense forests with the visor up. Imagine smearing your visor with vaseline while looking through one of those camera filters that they used in 70s flicks to portray drug affectation ... all brilliant stars! Really no fun at all.

 

[Vince]

I have a great headlight, 130/90. A year ago I did the about 150ks heading into Walca on the Oxley at night after a big delay with a front tyre blowout at speed on the Freeway. It's not fun with that great headlight if it's pointing about 20 degrees high after fitting the new std length rear shocks, 15mm shorter than what I had. Add in very tight headlight bolts also inassessable in the fairing. My one saving grace was following Will in his car and trailer, saved me after the tyre blew and then up his arse at 120 ks plus in the pitch-dark Oxley Hwy. Close to sub-zero temperatures added extra fun as I couldn't pull up and add layers, I was slowly freezing. The first thing back home was a headlight adjustment. New visor Q or Helmet? The stupid little things that catch you out. BTW that front blowout was put down to a thousand-year-old rock-hard and sharp rubber rim protector rubbing a hole in the tube.

 

[piranha-bro2]

How were those cut slicks in the wet?

Had zero issues with traction Vince - mind you, I did try and avoid the deep areas where water was pooling on the uneven surface. And I wasn't trying to find out if I had wet weather compound on board either!!