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

What did i do with my Laverda today ? - I did what it was put on god's earth for. I rode it hard 150 miles to the Kent coast and back in unseasonably warm weather under blue skies with a warm wind at my tail. Felt and sounded as amazing as it always did. It cleared some cobwebs out from both bike and rider. Wonderful. 
 
Yogi said:
Steel has right of way over anything...
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That's my usual response if anyone on another (wooden, fibreglass or ferro cement) boat yells "Starboard" at me. I just yell back "Steel"  :D

As luck would have it, the only prang I've ever had on the water happened to be with another steel boat. The other guy T-boned me amidships in a race. Everyone else on the water heard the clang of two steel boats coming together. He was doing about 5 knots and the impact demolished his bow fitting and carried away his forestay, so he was lucky not to lose his mast. Although he seemed more upset his nicely machined bronze anchor roller pinging off into the watery depths of the Derwent Estuary.  He said the impact shook loose a brown cloud of rust down below in his boat. I was sure that was a joke at the time. But a year or two later he cut up the hull for scrap, so maybe he wasn't joking about the rust.

Luckily for me it hit my boat just below the deck, right where there was an internal steel frame so it only made a dent about 1" wide and 1/4" deep in the hull plating. It didn't even tear a hole. I just filled the dent with epoxy bog and painted over it. If I'd been in a wooden or fibreglass boat he would have punched a dirty great hole in the side. If I'd been in a ferro cement boat, it probably would have sunk!

It was his fault (a clear port/starboard infringement) so I got a slab of beer out of it - the usual fine at our yacht club for that sort of thing.  :D
 
Nice Picture of the Laverda on top of the Mountains.
But if it's good weather for driving Laverda and skiing, how do you store the skis onboard the Laverda?

Kind regards,
jacques
 
Nice Picture of the Laverda on top of the Mountains.
But if it's good weather for driving Laverda and skiing, how do you store the skis onboard the Laverda?
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Hi Jacques,

They are stored in the mountain hut (Chalet)

I've been using the SFC all the time lately. 2018 was a non motorcycle year so have to catch up ;)
Jeroen
 
Made a swift visit to Riccardos last week and few odd pics for interest ! :D
 

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Today I declared the season open and paid a visit to the Eifel:

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Cheers
Jo
 
Pulled the fuel tank off, lots of rust in there, intend to use the citric acid technique to clean it, new CEV indicators fitted with my home made stainless fittings, that headlight is a proper nest! :o
 
Dellortoman said:
That's an interesting wooden structure that you parked the bike under. What is it?
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I'm going to have a stab at this Cam, I was wrong once before  ;)

I went to a "technology park" (vintage technology, steam engines, cigar making, gunsmiths  ........... and beer) in Germany near Osnabr?ck (I think)
There were old buildings that were moved there, a sort of old "working" working class village.

It reminds me of a raised hay shed, where the cattle/livestock lived downstairs in winter, and hay fell from above, pitch forked down by a wundersch?nen frauline wearing one of those dresses where her voluptous cleavage showed. One little slip, and those puppies would have been open for all to enjoy.  :P

Raised barn/hay shed.

 
Dellortoman said:
That's an interesting wooden structure that you parked the bike under. What is it?
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chrisk said:
I'm going to have a stab at this Cam, I was wrong once before  ;)

I went to a "technology park" (vintage technology, steam engines, cigar making, gunsmiths  ........... and beer) in Germany near Osnabr?ck (I think)
There were old buildings that were moved there, a sort of old "working" working class village.

It reminds me of a raised hay shed, where the cattle/livestock lived downstairs in winter, and hay fell from above, pitch forked down by a wundersch?nen frauline wearing one of those dresses where her voluptous cleavage showed. One little slip, and those puppies would have been open for all to enjoy.  :P

Raised barn/hay shed.
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Chris,
old farms/farm houses look different in the Eifel. Further a shed or better hall this size was never used on farms.



Cam,
nearby is a disused moulding sand pit. This moulding sand or foundry sand is used in metallurgical plants and foundries.
As for the hall, I can only speculate. Possibly the moulding sand was stored there before it was further transported.

Fortunately, there was no prohibition sign, but also no reference which explained the use ?
8)

Cheers
Jo
 
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