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

Exmoor beast said:
I went on my 750 inhaling two stroke from mates Suzuki kettle, I feel like I’ve smoked forty fags this morning!
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I feel your pain, Mate.
On the rideout from Breganze to the Asiago Plateau, last July, I followed a LZ125 for some time.
For the first few moments I quite enjoyed the nostalgic scent of two-stroke, remembering hooning around on the roads round Slater Bros. Collington on a demonstrator, back in the '70s.
It got old very quickly, though, and I had to blast past to get fresh air.
 
The Sock said:
I feel your pain, Mate.
On the rideout from Breganze to the Asiago Plateau, last July, I followed a LZ125 for some time.
For the first few moments I quite enjoyed the nostalgic scent of two-stroke, remembering hooning around on the roads round Slater Bros. Collington on a demonstrator, back in the '70s.
It got old very quickly, though, and I had to blast past to get fresh air.
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Recently followed my mate on his Ariel Arrow up Clee Hill in Shropshire. I thought I’d entered a time portal back to a smog/fog filled November night in 1950s London.
 
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I also followed this Sunbeam Model 1 to a local bike night, which also belongs to my Ariel Arrow owning mate. On arrival I seemed to be causing much merriment. After an hour or so I went for a pee and discovered in the toilet mirror my face was covered in black sooty oil, a la Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. The bastards just let me walk around unaware !
Steve.
 

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SteveRocker62 said:
I also followed this Sunbeam Model 1 to a local bike night, which also belongs to my Ariel Arrow owning mate. On arrival I seemed to be causing much merriment. After an hour or so I went for a pee and discovered in the toilet mirror my face was covered in black sooty oil, a la Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. The bastards just let me walk around unaware !
Steve.
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Following my friend on his home made Turbo Suzuki 1100 produced a similar result with my visor slowly loosing visibility as we went along - never wear white jeans on a motorcycle
 
I well remember a BOTT race at Donington Park in the ‘80’s, Geoff Baines of Baines Ducati fame, and one time rider for 3X on the factory Zane Laverda 750 Formulas, had bought a brand new set of white racing leathers and was wearing them for the first time. I think it was the second of the races we had that day and some dickhead, with a ditchpump, had failed to tighten his oil lines after fiddling around with his bike between races. Everyone gunned it from the line down to Redgate and of course the pressure was too much for the dickhead’s oil lines, which detached and liberally coated the track and Geoff’s new leathers as he was right behind him! To say he was hopping mad was an understatement to say the least.
Race was stopped to clean the track and clear several crashed bikes, including my mate’s F2 Ducrappi I was riding, from the kitty litter. 🤬
 
While out moving motorbikes last weekend, I spied an orange 750SF turning onto the main drag in Blaney NSW. Had some gear strapped to it, so may have been passing through

Odd part of the world to see one out and about.
 
The Sock said:
I feel your pain, Mate.
On the rideout from Breganze to the Asiago Plateau, last July, I followed a LZ125 for some time.
For the first few moments I quite enjoyed the nostalgic scent of two-stroke, remembering hooning around on the roads round Slater Bros. Collington on a demonstrator, back in the '70s.
It got old very quickly, though, and I had to blast past to get fresh air.
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ohhhh Sock, not so good, having a kettle from new in September 1973, the rubbish sold as "2 stroke oil" out here was the bane of many a fellow rider, including an outlaw biker whom pulled up next to me... "... have not been smoked like that for years" he quipped... my reply..." come on...you have missed me..." he laughed. The real reason Kettles were smoke trail demons, liberal use of the throttle/oil metering pump, incorrect high ash total loss oils. Suzuki had their own formula "CCI" in 4 litre tins, fantastic reduced the visible oil smoke by 90% and only smoked at 100% throttle.
Worst oil out here was the Castrol 2 Stroke, which i ran for years unknowingly. BTW Kettle had a recycle valve and tube system that pumped residual crankcase oil back into the combustion chambers on cold starts. Then there was the failed isolating crankshaft seals which pumped 2T loss oil into the gearbox, which ran best on ATF. You had to own one... and i still do...j
 
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