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

The Sock said:
I did live in North London, when I first moved here in January ’78. A Laverda Rider, from London, who I met in Scotland put me up in his digs in Golders Green for six weeks, until I found a flatshare in Barnet, through another Laverda Rider. Finally, muso friends who’d moved to Bromley with Gallagher and Lyle, and Bromley High School’s senior girls, encouraged the move to South East London.
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My dad worked in London for a few years and we lived on the north side of the Thames (Chiswick) for a while when I was a kid. Then we moved a long way north to Elstree. The kids at school would ask me to say something in Australian, so I'd give them a string of some unintelligible gibberish that I thought sounded a bit like an aboriginal language and they'd go "Ooh! what does that mean?" So then I'd have to come up with a translation, usually something outrageously violent. There are probably adults now living in Chiswick and Elstree who think impaling people with spears and cannibalism are common in outback Australia.
 
In Oz, a Huntsman just about always refers to a type of very big and very fast non-venomous spider often found in houses. Cool critter. Some can get as big as your hand. I don't recommend sitting on one.
 
Vince said:
In Oz, a Huntsman just about always refers to a type of very big and very fast non-venomous spider often found in houses. Cool critter. Some can get as big as your hand. I don't recommend sitting on one.
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They can give a pretty good bite and some of them have big fangs and can actually hiss, bite causes red swelling that can take months to go away, not fatal though.
 
Early morning blast over to Doone country. Lovely and warm to start ( 7am) but a really cold wind on the moor but bright sunshine. Nearly ran over a couple of wooly seat covers and clocked a rabbit that was trying to outrun me at 10 kmh . The ford has a small packhorse bridge next to it but it would be rude not to ride through the water with my legs out! Bike does like the cool morning air, no doubt about it.
 

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The Sock said:
I did live in North London, when I first moved here in January ’78. A Laverda Rider, from London, who I met in Scotland put me up in his digs in Golders Green for six weeks, until I found a flatshare in Barnet, through another Laverda Rider. Finally, muso friends who’d moved to Bromley with Gallagher and Lyle, and Bromley High School’s senior girls, encouraged the move to South East London.

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Phantoms were made for Laverdas. They look great! As does the 3/1… love it!
 
Tippie said:
They can give a pretty good bite and some of them have big fangs and can actually hiss, bite causes red swelling that can take months to go away, not fatal though.
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In 2005 I sat on a branch on the seat of the ride on mower, so I thought.

My daughter came out to the yard to tell me the footy grand final was about to start.

Off the mower, a beer in hand and settled on the lounge…. by 1/4 time I was in bed as crook as a dog with what I thought was the flu… three days later I complained that I had bed sores, the Mrs rolled me over and said I had three black welts on my arse, she dragged me off to the Drs, the Dr said I’d been bitten on the arse by a Redbacked spider three times. “Seen it many times”

Fucken spiders.
 
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