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

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Swingarm extensions? Going drag racing?;)

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180 profile slick rear tyre so we can corner faster, to achieve that we needed to design new swingarms
160 profile slick is not cutting it, keep spinning up the rear and sliding
should be good for 1.5 seconds per lap at Phillip Island according to Matt

next up is to design a slipper clutch which is what we really need more than anything
will allow us to run way faster but also save engine damage at the same time
 
Love the bling factor of freshly machined metal! I can well imagine PI a place where the Mule spins up the rear way too much - such fast corners and on the sides of the tyre wt full gas ... if you're Matt!
 
Visited my mate in Denmark, 70 kays from Walpole, has a shed full of interesting bikes including a 80 S2 Jota and ex Ziggi 750 race bike.
Did the 30 kays of south coast hwy in a conservative manor being 80, 90 and 110kay limits but once I turned off the main road onto my 40km test track the fun started. Just missed running over a tiger snake at about 180, swerved thinking it was a stick initially. So 80 kays of flat out fanging certainly got my juices flowing. Feel like a nap now!!! Gotta love fanging ya Laverda!!
 
Had a similar Snake experience on a Single Track near Bulladela, the first half dozen bikes must have rialed it up, I didn't see it till I was very close. It had a strike as I passed it and my booted leg came up off the pegs real quick. Probably an Eastern Brown. It doesn't matter to me what kind of wildlife I see in the bush, it's just so great to encounter any and have a look at a safe distance. After lots of years doing this I have only encountered 3 Snakes, and lots of Goanas but these days it's a very rare thing to see anything sadly.
 
My road into town, there's always dead tiger snakes when in season. Pisses me off people run over them on purpose. I see lots of live ones and I managed to miss them. Last couple of weeks there has been 2 living in our garden, haven't seen them for a week or so, probably moved on but I leave them alone. Just tell the misses to watch out for them when in the garden. Happy to live with them when knowing they're there.
 
Definitely shy beasts. Had to wait a bit for a browny ( I think) to slide off the track up Bungalow Spur halfway up Feathertop last week. Don’t accidentally corner them or piss them off and they’ll gladly keep well away from you - dangerous human!
 
My son has a big Staffy, Banjo, usually greets everyone the same way, tail wagging, almost knocks people over when he brushes up against them.

A few weeks ago, Banjo was laying spread eagle, as they do, when he got home from work. Raised an eyebrow and closed his eyes again

Son thought it was odd, but figured he’d had a busy day chasing rats or other fun stuff

He grabbed his whipper snipper and was doing the garden edges. There was a dead 5 foot Brown, along the edge.

He threw Banjo and the snake in the car and straight to a vet. They gave him antivenom. Banjo had no bite marks, but when the vet looked ate the snake, it seemed Banjo had ruptured the venom sack and got a mouthful. He survived, but he has welts all over him and his skin is falling off and isn’t half the dog he was. That was three maybe four weeks ago

Poor bugger.
 
The block across the road from me has 2 stupid rotty cross mongrels one which barks constantly at anything. Reading the local rag a couple of weeks ago I was so happy to read the owners came home one evening to find a dead dog and dead tiger snake on the driveway. One down one to go. Too bad about the tiger though. Couple of mates had offered to throw a 1080 bait over the fence to sort the barking problem which I sort of declined. Happy to say it's been quieter the last couple of weeks.
 
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Definitely shy beasts. Had to wait a bit for a browny ( I think) to slide off the track up Bungalow Spur halfway up Feathertop last week. Don’t accidentally corner them or piss them off and they’ll gladly keep well away from you - dangerous human!
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So many myths about Browns, instant attack mode, and aggressively chasing people down. Just like everything else, they scarper first if they can. Scary tail Chris, very lucky dog. So much for a quiet life in the bush, my trips to care for my uncle would be pretty sleepless from constantly fucking barking dogs in all adjacent houses all fucken night long, either their owners are blind drunk or deaf. It takes a day or so to train a dog to NOT CONSTANTY BARK. Fair enough a couple of woof woofs, but it must distress the dog as well to be barking for multiple hours at a time. Why they don't stop it from happening amazes me. And they wonder why your mate's suggestion happens Rob. Fucken Idiots.
 
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Vince said:
So many myths about Browns, instant attack mode, and aggressively chasing people down. Just like everything else, they scarper first if they can. Scary tail Chris, very lucky dog. So much for a quiet life in the bush, my trips to care for my uncle would be pretty sleepless from constantly fucking barking dogs in all adjacent houses all fucken night long, either their owners are blind drunk or deaf. It takes a day or so to train a dog to NOT CONSTANTY BARK. Fair enough a couple of woof woofs, but it must distress the dog as well to be barking for multiple hours at a time. Why they don't stop it from happening amazes me. And they wonder why your mate's suggestion happens Rob. Fucken Idiots.
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Hey Vince

Appreciate any tips you have on getting the dog to not bark so much. My 3 year old Kelpie will bark at anything, whereas the cattle dog doesn't bark much at all. Thanks.
 
Tell it NOT to, don't reward bad behaviour or ignore it. I don't mean violenty BTW. A sharp loud NO should have that effect. An idiot mate used to say his Dog was saying hello, but after 30 seconds you need to stop it. Your in charge, if you are not the Dog will take that role. BTW Sitronilla Collars work well for this when the Dog is on its own, they work by Spraying a bad-smelling odder from the Collar after a set number of barks. To me training a Dog to be relaxed when on its own is far less distressing to the Dog than frantic hours of it barking incessantly. That same idiot used to like riding back and forth past my gate agitating our German Shepard to the sound of Motorcycles, that took some braking of that habit, as I said an idiot.
 
Vince said:
Tell it NOT to, don't reward bad behaviour or ignore it. I don't mean violenty BTW. A sharp loud NO should have that effect. An idiot mate used to say his Dog was saying hello, but after 30 seconds you need to stop it. Your in charge, if you are not the Dog will take that role. BTW Sitronilla Collars work well for this when the Dog is on its own, they work by Spraying a bad-smelling odder from the Collar after a set number of barks. To me training a Dog to be relaxed when on its own is far less distressing to the Dog than frantic hours of it barking incessantly. That same idiot used to like riding back and forth past my gate agitating our German Shepard to the sound of Motorcycles, that took some braking of that habit, as I said an idiot.
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I’ve got this barking little prick at my house for Christmas.

It has one of those bark zapper collars. I’m not a fan, so took it off.

I say No! But it just barks at anything. FFS …. Sausage dog + BBQ 🤔
 

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