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

That label used to be for sale in WA at a liquor store in Subiaco in the 70's. The owner had cleanskins labelled with this. He swapped to Rene Pogel when he got too many complaints about the original label, Chateau Le Gopener. I wonder if Wolf pinched the label off him or vicky verky.
 
From reputation it aught to be vodka with that moniker.
Wolf Blass is the bloke who among others got busted for doctoring wine with ethelyne glycol, to round out the taste of bitter stuff. He then lobbied for it to be an approved additive. So think about that when your head is throbbing the next morning after a night of cheap red.
 
Blimey. Ethylene glycol is quite toxic, even in small amounts. Are you sure it wasn't propylene glycol he was adding? Prop glycol is generally considered to be a safe food additive and has a similar taste to ethylene glycol.
 
Are you sure it was Australia. Austria had a major ethylene glycol in wine problem but I can't recall anything like that in Oz.
 
Davo said:
Are you sure it was Australia. Austria had a major ethylene glycol in wine problem but I can't recall anything like that in Oz.
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My biggest problem with things in red wine is flies. My wife drinks mostly white, me red, when having a glass or tw together on the deck I always seem to get a fly swimming around in my wine, never hers. Odd that.
 
chrisk said:
Exporter/Importer for our bikes came back, what the deal is is for mods done overseas, not in Australia. He assures me we are all go.
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Do you blokes get a copy of export paperwork before you take bike over to the shipper?  If so, consider taking photos of the bikes with the export paperwork and maybe the days newspaper to confirm the date of photo and keep it on your phone.  Then you can show them that - externally at least - the bike has had no modifications done to it overseas.  Maybe see if you can lodge the photos with a named officer at the dept. before you go, and talk him into backing you if there are any hassles.  I cannot see a court allowing them to deny re-entry if you have dated photographs of the bikes prior to shipping and copies of export shipping documents and itinerary.  Get all your ducks in a row before you ship.


Have you got any names of a senior customs dude that you have spoken to about your concerns?  If so, he?s your man - just tell him of the purpose of the trip and your concerns about losing the bikes on re-entry.  There has to be a senior there who you can talk and write to..


Any hassles, go straight to a customs agent (I have good one in Sydney who rides bikes and looked after my imports) and the appropriate administration tribunal
or Federal Court.


Happy to try and help you if I can, should it looks bad upon re-entry.


Maybe see if Redax are able to supply documentation regarding lack of asbestos in gaskets, if this is the case..


Yogi
 
By the way, if they try to pull any tricks like ?no right to review?,  don?t fall for that malarkey - there is also Ministerial discretion.  In fact, you could find a senior bureaucrat in Customs we?ll before you leave and speak to them to explain the situation, get their email address, and email them thanking for the discussion, reaffirming your concerns and send them dates photos, itinerary and export shipping docs.


Figure out what their reasons might be for denying re-entry, and then address these point by point in writing before you go.


Yogi
 
Yogi said:
? consider taking photos of the bikes with the export paperwork and maybe the days newspaper to confirm the date of photo and keep it on your phone. 
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The newspaper thing won't work. Newspaper photos just confirm the earliest date of the photo, not the latest.

Anyone could take a photo with a newspaper from years ago and claim the mods were done way back then, when in fact they could have been done yesterday.

 
Dellortoman said:
The newspaper thing won't work. Newspaper photos just confirm the earliest date of the photo, not the latest.

Anyone could take a photo with a newspaper from years ago and claim the mods were done way back then, when in fact they could have been done yesterday.
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How about the June 2019 forum calendar picture.
 
Dellortoman said:
The newspaper thing won't work. Newspaper photos just confirm the earliest date of the photo, not the latest.

Anyone could take a photo with a newspaper from years ago and claim the mods were done way back then, when in fact they could have been done yesterday.
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Cam, when you take a digital photograph with a camera, the date that the photo is taken is atta he?d to the digital image along with the information including serial number of the camera used.  At least, that is my own understanding. The dated newspaper only serves to place the newspaper on that date, with the digital camera?s own corresponding timeline.


Yogi
 
Yogi said:
Cam, when you take a digital photograph with a camera, the date that the photo is taken is atta he?d to the digital image along with the information including serial number of the camera used.  At least, that is my own understanding. The dated newspaper only serves to place the newspaper on that date, with the digital camera?s own corresponding timeline.


Yogi
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You do realise it is possible to change the time and date on a camera.
 
Davo said:
You do realise it is possible to change the time and date on a camera.
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It's also quite simple to edit the photo properties. The photo image itself can also be edited with photoshop or other software. So a digital image isn't really proof of anything.

Interesting logic problem.  The newspaper photo shows that it was taken after the date the paper was published, but it's not easy to prove a photo can only have been taken before a specific date. One way would be to include a person in the photo, then kill them! Although I suspect that might lead to a bigger problem for Chris than trying to extract his bike from Customs.  Perhaps a less extreme method would be to take a photo of the bike in front of a building that's about to be demolished.
 
Or take photos in the presence of someone official and have them sign and verify that they witnessed that the motorcycle was as pictured on such and such a date.
 
Stat Dec, they carry a huge amount of weight. They just usually just need a neck on the line to save their arse. Paper Trump's word of mouth.
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
Or take photos in the presence of someone official and have them sign and verify that they witnessed that the motorcycle was as pictured on such and such a date.
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I have 32 pages of proof on the net: https://www.laverdaforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,93299.0.html
 
Pulled carbs off, float heights were 15mm  :(  now 18mm  :D
Could explain why mixture screws were wound way out, Brett found that on the Snowy run.
Last people to have carbs off/apart were the dyno guys ......... I'll blame them.
 
My dyno guy doesn't tune the bike, he just runs it on the dyno. He might make recommendations about what to do with jets, needles, etc. according to the dyno results, but he then goes off and does something else while I do the jetting changes. When I'm done he comes back and gives it another run. I like doing it that way because I know exactly what's been done, and I save a bit of money by not paying him to be spannering on the bike.

He doesn't do it that way for everyone, only old farts like me who like to have a hands-on involvement. Some people don't wanna get their hands dirty. They just leave their bike with him and come back later to pick it up when it's done.
 
Dellortoman said:
My dyno guy doesn't tune the bike, he just runs it on the dyno. He might make recommendations about what to do with jets, needles, etc. according to the dyno results, but he then goes off and does something else while I do the jetting changes. When I'm done he comes back and gives it another run. I like doing it that way because I know exactly what's been done, and I save a bit of money by not paying him to be spannering on the bike.

He doesn't do it that way for everyone, only old farts like me who like to have a hands-on involvement. Some people don't wanna get their hands dirty. They just leave their bike with him and come back later to pick it up when it's done.
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Sounds like a good sys, Cam.
Once I get mine running it'll be off to Clyde Wolfenden up the road for some dyno work on the FCRs. I have to get it done before he bloody retires though! I'm guessing he knows a whole lot about FCRs and CRs, with those Honda motors he builds. Bro Tippie has given me the jetting stats for his 750 SFC tune - just need to tweak it for big bore and my twin exhaust system.
 
Nearly finished getting the throttle cables and set up correct on the drummer project  :o think now have the optimum length and position for the splitter only time will tell but. At least I have become quite an expert on soldering the nipples on the ends of the cables  :D
 
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