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

[chrisk]

Wait ........ they served it at the F1 race in Melbourne ...... but I wasn't brave enough to try it

Jim

Cleans gunk off engine cases really well.

 

[helicopterjim]

Cleans gunk off engine cases really well.

Must be the suds ....

Jim

 

[JO55]

Nothing wrong with Australian Fosters ........... I never saw any both times I was there!

Wait ........ they served it at the F1 race in Melbourne ...... but I wasn't brave enough to try it (also I was on standby for flying).

Jim

I've never met an Aussie that had even heard of it! Tooheys? Yes. Fosters? No! And it was marketed in the UK as Australia's favourite beer! : )

 

[Tippie]

They also sponsored the Melbourne Cup. Big sports sponsors, trying to convince people that after a big workout you always crack open a cold one (especially if you have just watched it on tv). They bombarded us with advertising for the shit all through the ?70s so I can?t imagine that nobody had heard of the stuff. A CUB bloke told me that it sold a fraction of what VB sold back then.

 

[helicopterjim]

I've never met an Aussie that had even heard of it! Tooheys? Yes. Fosters? No! And it was marketed in the UK as Australia's favourite beer! : )

I would blame that Alligator Dunbar guy ........ he tried to convince the world it was some Linda Lovelace beer ....... something to do with the throat.

Jim

 

[Vince]

Toohays is a Sydney beer but even then you had to be in a Toohays owned pub to get it on tap.Fosters is. Melbourne beer and was unlnown in Sydney.XXXX was a Brisbane beer and unknown in the south. And then Alan Bond appearrd and that all changed.BTW he was lucky he wasent shot after ehat he did to family leased Toohays pubs ehen he bought the company. My first trip south to Victoria on a bike had me front a bar and ask for a Scoona of Fosters to try it. I got some look.Local joke for the ozzys.

 

[JO55]

They also sponsored the Melbourne Cup. Big sports sponsors, trying to convince people that after a big workout you always crack open a cold one (especially if you have just watched it on tv). They bombarded us with advertising for the shit all through the ?70s so I can?t imagine that nobody had heard of the stuff. A CUB bloke told me that it sold a fraction of what VB sold back then.

Ah, makes sense. The ones I spoke to would have not been around to see a 70's marketing explosion!

Anyway, it is pretty shit. Amber Nectar, my arse!

 

[drikko]

Potato head will expel you from OZ if you're caught with a Fosters..... We have rules against that sort of thing.

 

[Legs]

Cooper's Pale Ale for me

 

[piranha-bro2]

Can't drink any of the 'big corporate' beers except Tooheys Old. I buy cases of James Squire Golden Ale or their Porter. Don't go through much of it, so lasts yonks.

 

[Dellortoman]

I quite like Toohey's Old. I don't think I've ever tried Fosters. Probably never will. I gave up drinking alcohol a couple if years ago.

 

[Bottler]

Little Creatures Pale Ale and Birra Moretti are a couple of the many beers I like.

 

[The Sock]

Beat the showers to The Hollyville Cafe, this morning.
Graham brought the Jota out, now he has purged the air from his front brakes.
Nice Kawasaki triple and a 'Bike Shed style' Egli Vincent.

 

[Paul Marx]

Went riding with the Missus. In the rain.

Paul

 

[paulincayman]

Unwrapped packages from Red .. wheel , brake and speedo adaptors for the gsxr wheels, and from  Wolfgang .. pistons and tranny
( haha ) parts.  Also made some shock mount bracket parts ready to be welded. 

 

[lawrence]

You're a lucky man, Paul.  You are receiving mail.  Not so here, about 1000 miles from Wolfgang.  It's now been more than two months since I ordered some very little (but important) bits.  Still I wait.... 

 

[steph]

Unwrapped packages from Red .. wheel , brake and speedo adaptors for the gsxr wheels, and from  Wolfgang .. pistons and tranny
( haha ) parts.

Good news Paul 
Was the sky closed until recently (end of July) like in Bermuda ?

 

[paulincayman]

Good news Paul 
Was the sky closed until recently (end of July) like in Bermuda ?

Still is for visitors and regular mail ..only couriers getting in ..fedex  dhl etc..
Got my stuff sent  to Miami and then used  a freight forwarder for the final leg..
Borders set to reopen October..fingers crossed

 

[paulincayman]

You're a lucky man, Paul.  You are receiving mail.  Not so here, about 1000 miles from Wolfgang.  It's now been more than two months since I ordered some very little (but important) bits.  Still I wait.... 

That's really odd.  If I can get parts to Miami ...what's up with Idaho?

 

[The Sock]

Well, I guess it was only a matter of time!
Some concerned,

    "It has come to my notice that some people may be having a life and enjoying themselves.

    I'm offended by that, because I think that everyone should be miserable and bitter, like the fine example I'm setting.

    I  will complain to the Authorities and get you shut down because it's against the Law for you to have more than thirty people in your car  park, you know."

A..hole has threatened the Hollyville Cafe.
As a consequence,  no more coffee or bacon sandwiches outside. Food and beverages inside only, seated at the reduced number of tables, in compliance with so-called distancing.  Meanwhile, others are getting upset about a song  they don't know the words to, not being sung at an event they've never gone to, that they can't attend, this year, anyway!