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

Vince said:
One of the Sydney blokes did the same, I just couldn't go there. I cannot even just stand on that side of a bike. You sometimes have to in awkward situations but I always wiggle around to the left side.
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I hear you Vince. As a kid I used to ride horses so was trained from an early age to do everything from the left side, but will have to get used to it.
 
I am the same, not heaps of Horse riding but enough to know how to. It's a mind thing for me. You watch the Moto GP Mechanics push bikes around while standing on the right side of the bike, but it's just wrong in my tiny mind.
 
Vince said:
I am the same, not heaps of Horse riding but enough to know how to. It's a mind thing for me. You watch the Moto GP Mechanics push bikes around while standing on the right side of the bike, but it's just wrong in my tiny mind.
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And the riders often get on and off from the wrong side too, no wonder they crash sometimes!
 
That’s why I like to go racing with one of my mates, He’s one of those right side guys, makes for for ease of loading, must have been the reluctant equestrian training as a child that fucked me…
 
is it not a right or left handed thing, but screwed by the fact that we are all taught to stand on the left of the bike from a very early age (pushbike/tricycle)

I have noiticed that a lot of very fast road racers are left handed, and with circuits predominately clockwise and more right turns than left it makes a bit of sense to me as a right hander, Even the IOM TT is predominantly right handers, all the lefts are little easy jobbies, Ginger hall/Ramset hairpin excepted, I very much prefer left hand bends, which could explain my inability as a road racer (my story and I am sticking with it) veteran flat track may get done this year and so we will see. Left, left and only left.
CLEM

The very sharpest chain saw blade I ever had was with me doing one side of the teeth honing and my mate Grizzy (a left hooker) doing the other side, very annoyingly he died at 67. Now I have to do both sides.
 
CLEMTOG said:
is it not a right or left handed thing, but screwed by the fact that we are all taught to stand on the left of the bike from a very early age (pushbike/tricycle)

I have noiticed that a lot of very fast road racers are left handed, and with circuits predominately clockwise and more right turns than left it makes a bit of sense to me as a right hander, Even the IOM TT is predominantly right handers, all the lefts are little easy jobbies, Ginger hall/Ramset hairpin excepted, I very much prefer left hand bends, which could explain my inability as a road racer (my story and I am sticking with it) veteran flat track may get done this year and so we will see. Left, left and only left.
CLEM

The very sharpest chain saw blade I ever had was with me doing one side of the teeth honing and my mate Grizzy (a left hooker) doing the other side, very annoyingly he died at 67. Now I have to do both sides.
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Watch out for chain saws

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My attempt to grind 1/8" off the inside face of the countershaft sprocket.
Good result. So just ordered a 520 chain.
Hoping the 3 mm gain is enough to clear the wide 150 tyre that measures 162mm.
 

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