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

We had a barker for a while. Got it as a 1yo and the barking was caused by fear and anxiety, which is the most common cause, then it can become a habit. Took a good year of patient training for her to come right, for her to become fully comfortable in her new home and family and understand our expectations. Then maintenance. That's what people seem to forget, they need lifelong reinforcement of the positive traits. Consistency is everything, same with kids.

Anyway, what were we talking about? Laverda track days wasn't it...? 🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️

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Lovely start to the New Year in 'sunny' Queensland..!! bucketing rain and work to be done to get the F500 ready for the New Year.. lovely new taps from LJ.. very cool.. thanks mate..;)
Much more to be done for this bike to get ready for a busy racing year... but I AM on the hunt for a 500 engine..!!! any condition really as long as complete and not 'smashed'.. mostly a nice head and barrel set is of interest..

My best wishes to you all for a lovely Festive Season and we look forward to a great New Year..

Ciao Laverdaisti..

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Fitted anew taillight to the Jota this afternoon. This bloody bike does tend to destroy them, this time I fitted new rubbers on the taillight bracket and hopefully this will cure it of its destructive habit😁. Bike is running great after a severe flogging at the track early this month but now have too be careful as double demerits have come in till early January so have to be a bit cautious and pick and choose where I have a bit of slightly illegal fun😭
Tom
Just a quick shout out to everyone to have a great festive season and look forward to catching up with some of you in Breganze in July 😁👍. Stay safe and enjoy.
 
chrisk said:
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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Girl I know had a Zap collar for her Patterdale- I gave her a bollocking and said how would you like it. After a heated debate I put it on( on my neck!) and set the control to high and hit the button. I kid you not i turned into a giant twitching starfish- hurt like fuck. After I had two dot marks on my neck and my jaw felt like I’d blown up a hundred balloons, probably would have killed a small dog. Turns out it was a Chinese EBay collar that uses cattle prod technology - they wanted me to do it again so they could record it on their phones!
 
You should have made the dog owner try it out!!!

Our dingo-kelpie barks at dogs walking past, but the postie is the one that really get his juices flowing. Strangers at the gate get barked at but as soon as they are invited in it's just lovely Charlie the pet hunde.
 
Just checking,;)

About 35 years ago spoke with a bloke who trained guard dogs, he would not train a dog if the owner had hit the dog, reason being that it makes them hand shy which you don't want in a guard dog. He suggested using a spray bottle, I have had good out comes using this method along with strong voice commands.

Meet a another bloke who trained Kelpies, had a booklet out titled ???? Way. A lot of good insight for all breeds. Now a lot of stuff on Utube.

Biggest thing that I took from that meeting is, if you need to hit, beat, rub its nose in it etc. a dog it shows a character flaw in yourself.

Cheers.

Ummm checked the battery voltage on my Jota. [stayin'on thread]
 
Perception, When my next-door neighbour told me about the Sitrinila Spray Collar she ended up using I thought that was more cruel than a shock collar. She didn't. Again perceptions, she used to wank on about why her dog barked, apparently she thought as a Pup it had been traumatised, owners love projecting their own experiences onto the animals, big word of the day, anthropomorphising. So it didn't matter what the dog did she constantly loved it up to the max, in other words, ZERO DISCIPLINE. So every time the owner left it alone it had separation anxiety and barked till she came back. The Dog owned and controlled everything and was the Pack leader, this is just so stupid a way to live with Dogs but is so common. BTW that Dog was a lovely animal, as usual, it was the idiot owner that was the problem.
 
LaverdaIan said:
Lovely start to the New Year in 'sunny' Queensland..!! bucketing rain and work to be done to get the F500 ready for the New Year.. lovely new taps from LJ.. very cool.. thanks mate..;)
Much more to be done for this bike to get ready for a busy racing year... but I AM on the hunt for a 500 engine..!!! any condition really as long as complete and not 'smashed'.. mostly a nice head and barrel set is of interest..

My best wishes to you all for a lovely Festive Season and we look forward to a great New Year..

Ciao Laverdaisti..

:cool:
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I hope Santa found room in his sack for a 500 engine. However, I some how doubt it as they are getting harder and harder to find and those that are lucky enough to have spare parts are understandably becoming more reluctant to part with them. If anyone has a magic wand, now would be a good time to get it out the box.
 
After years of hearing the exact mileage people were getting from tyres I now add the speedo reading and purchase date of new rubber to my calendar, keeping fuel usage and cost over the year, Naa that's a bridge tole too far for me. Tole costs, that would be interesting.
 
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