Vic High Country Ride

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Had such a Great time fanging around with the Vic & Canberra boys,I wore the rear tyre out.
A bit of a duct tape bandaid and 600k's back home.
Phew!
Bloody lucky.
 

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We have a ride next weekend, I have my front wheel and a new tyre sitting at some local bike shop. I also have a rear tyre with 9000ks on the bike and maybe it might do another 1000ks. Next weekend's ride is probably 1000ks and there is predicted rain. Russian Rulet comes to mind. Where is my duct tape?
 
Honkin it thru the hills. 😎
 

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Was great catching up with the Viccos again on the weekend, good times although feeling a little second hand yesterday... I lay on the couch with the doberman and we binge-watched the whole Marquez All-In series. :D

Glad you made it home ok Phil, I like the 'retread'!!

@Alzero the blue one is mine, I used GSXR throttle bodies and an Autronic ECU. Any decent programmable one should work, however getting the right 'feel' took some effort and maybe not all ECUs would handle that the same. It was a lot of work, the throttle bodies etc was the easy part.
 
The blue one looks great!
The blue RGS? That's the bike that famously hit a fallen tree in Tasmania, giving its rider (Chris) a helicopter trip to hospital for a couple of days. Some kind passer-by loaded the bike into the back of his ute (pickup truck) and dropped it at my place until it could be reunited with Chris. We did some basic repairs to get it rideable so it could go back home to Sydney. It's a tough bike. Not to mention the rider.
 
The blue one belongs to Batto Cam, so not Chris's blue one which is ex Lino I believe.
That's a great run and turn out of Lavies you Vicco boys. I miss those roads.
 
WOW…… what a fantastic 4 days on the rd.
Now holed up in Myrtyleford 🍺 great run down the Mitta River from Eskdale to Omeo, then over Hotham and into Towonga gap and the Kiewa valley. Yeeeeeeha.
Great to catch up with fellow Laverdisti on the rd and over a few froffies! All bikes purring along on the mountain rds 😎
 

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Was great catching up with the Viccos again on the weekend, good times although feeling a little second hand yesterday... I lay on the couch with the doberman and we binge-watched the whole Marquez All-In series. :D

Glad you made it home ok Phil, I like the 'retread'!!

@Alzero the blue one is mine, I used GSXR throttle bodies and an Autronic ECU. Any decent programmable one should work, however getting the right 'feel' took some effort and maybe not all ECUs would handle that the same. It was a lot of work, the throttle bodies etc was the easy part.
That’s what wondered: the mechanical installation was the easier part and the software and tuning was the difficult part.
 
WOW…… what a fantastic 4 days on the rd.
Now holed up in Myrtyleford 🍺 great run down the Mitta River from Eskdale to Omeo, then over Hotham and into Towonga gap and the Kiewa valley. Yeeeeeeha.
Great to catch up with fellow Laverdisti on the rd and over a few froffies! All bikes purring along on the mountain rds 😎
That's a brilliant day's ride there Davo! Craig and I did that Mitta to Omeo run in January and it was awesome, backing it up with going over Hotham and into Kiewa would be even better. Enjoy your final run back to the big smoke!
 
That’s what wondered: the mechanical installation was the easier part and the software and tuning was the difficult part.
That, but more the fact that the throttle bodies are but one part (and one of the most straightforward) of the mechanical side of things. There are a lot of other parts that need to find a home, and then the electrical side of course, wiring harness, sensors, inventing a cam signal, grafting in a better alternator, yada yada... Fun project, but not very sensible. :D
 
Beat the rain home….. 5 days on dry rds to die for! Just under 2,000 klms covered.
Batto, twas a mega day culminating in the run thru Tawonga gap, quick squirt down the Kiewa Valley then back across the range to Myrtyleford 😁😁

Tall Ho papers anyone??🤣
 

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Chris copied my colour, because it's universally acknowledged to be the best ever. :LOL:
Sorry Batto. I forgot about your blue RGS (your post and mine both appeared on the forum at exactly the same time).

Your testimony that Chris copied your colour is demonstrably untrue because Chris' bike was that colour way back when Lino owned it. Chris is therefore innocent of the allegation. I put it to the jury that you (or your dad) actually copied Lino's colour scheme. I rest my case your honour. :)

Unless someone else has gone mad with blue paint, they must be the only two blue RGS Laverdas in existence.
 
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