Re: What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?

Seems as sensible as the decision to let vehicles with an odd last number on the numberplate in on some days, and then vehicles with an even last number on the other days.
 
pf1 said:
That's potentially 25 French towns I wont be spending any money in then.
I would have thought apart from vacuous politicians, diesel would be the main culprit for pollution in France, that and chainsaws.
Everybody has a chainsaw there, it's the law and you must practise daily starting at dawn, breaking for lunch at 12:00, resuming at 14:00 and finishing after dark. As an alternative you are allowed to do strimming. Then you have to burn a huge pile of vegetation which can resemble fire in a tyre factory.
Then the bells ring and it's time for bed. Bit like Trumpton  ;)
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Pat, you had me LOLing out loud at that - I can just picture you saying it too, with 'les bieres' lined up on the table...! :LOL: :LOL:
Spoken like a true 'rosbif' too!  :-* :D
 
Paul Marx said:
25 french towns can now bring in legislation banning motorcycles over 10 years old in town.
Took the SF2 into town on Saturday along with my friend on her 2000 Suzuki 125.
We demonstrated against these measures along with 1500 other motorcyclists.

Great fun was had by all apart from car drivers. Motorcycle police were all smiling and cheering us on.

Paul
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Signed JLO s petition even if i am in the UK.
 
When the mercury bolts up to 8degC with the added bonus of the smiley faced autumn sun in the bargain, there is no need to prevaricate, at least for those of us who live in the sub arctic. So it was off for a 250km spin to check out a friend?s new SF2 then on to Sweden to grab a discount ultrasonic cleaner, and a nice detour home as the temp plummeted in the shadows.
This new SF2 has been in the family since new and stood in a shed for 18 years quietly rusting away until this year. Absolutely standard with everything there albeit rusted. 37000 genuine km and I?ll help out getting it back into service. The motor turns over by the back wheel with good compression, everything is free and moving, very surprising, and no rust in the tank so the 18yo XOP fuel must have saved it. We?ll do a few checks and fire it up, see if and how it goes before we decide on stripping it down and what to do. Rusty everything so a lot will depend on what of that can be refurbished. Hopefully another Laverda rescued.
Won?t be much more riding this year for me though, I reckon the snow is not far away now.
 

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Friend just bought a similar condition one ,which fires up too ,burgandy colour so that"s 2 saved Tipppie :D Try and get a pic of it next time.
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
Have cars got that much quicker since I rode regularly 15 years ago?  :-\ :-\ :-\  I'm thinking he must have known something or he wouldn't be out bating motos.  But a Ford Territory??? Would someone bother to put a huge donk in one of them or are Laverda twins now so slow they can't out-accelerate a modern oversized SUV?!

Sorry Ron, looks like the old Breganzie is actually a slug even in the league of the four-wheel world these days  ??? ??? ???
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I've sussed out the Ford Territory and don't feel so (slow) bad. Seems they made the fastest SUV in Oz, fitted with a FPV (Ford Performance Vehicles) 4.0 litre turbocharged 6cyl - 270kw (550bhp) 0-100 in 5.8sec.

Makes a lot more sense now.
 
Re: pickup trucks.
One of the local car dealers had a GMC Syclone back in the nineties and it was totally nuts as tyre technology at the time wasn't
really up to it.
Safest place to be was behind it.
 
Finished rebuilding the Ceriani shocks for the 750, and built up the bars, switches etc to the top yoke.





Now waiting for the stanchions to come back from being straightened/rechromed so I can complete the front end.
 
Made a horn mount for the RGS out of a large mitre saw blade- cut four strips to 'laminate' together.  Turned out three was the ideal number, now have a nice loud horn again.  Hopefully shouldn't fracture so easily as it's mounted up inside the fairing.
 
Today I got Nonna out and gave her a scrub and took her riding both Nonna and tthe Aussie Drummer are going into the Motor Classica classic car and bike display at the Melbourne Exhibition buildings next week!
 

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