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

Tippie said:
Mate here we went to a huge bike market at Herning in Denmark, bought a CBR600, the test he asked for was hold it on the rev limiter full throttle for five ((or ten) minutes, as it was to be a classic race bike and that is where it was going to live out it's sunset days. No prob, warmed it up, test passed, money paid.
I never understood the Vinales fuss, rev limiters are just what they are called. A motogp bike should cope.
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Years ago I had a mate who lived in Oldham in the UK and he and his friend who was a farmers son used to go to the car auctions and pick up anything cheap left unsold at the end of the day, then they would take it to the farm out on the moors, drive crazily round the fields it until it was wrecked and finally rev the engine until it blew up. He told me the only one they couldn't blow up was a Datsun, it just wouldn't give in.
 
pf1 said:
Years ago I had a mate who lived in Oldham in the UK and he and his friend who was a farmers son used to go to the car auctions and pick up anything cheap left unsold at the end of the day, then they would take it to the farm out on the moors, drive crazily round the fields it until it was wrecked and finally rev the engine until it blew up. He told me the only one they couldn't blow up was a Datsun, it just wouldn't give in.
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Bet it was a Datsun Sunny ,, 👍
 
piranha-bro2 said:
Wasn't it a Datsun ute that Top Gear tried to kill ... and failed? Mighta been a Toyota, but same same.
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Toyota Hi-Lux. Beaten and bashed but refused to die.

Wonder how much truth is in the story, after all, it's just telly. Nonetheless, Top Gear was a genial format, even appealed to non-petrolheads.

piet
 
Well not today.. but last week saw me, good mate Mark Muir and the newly restored young Monty at One Raceway in NSW. The Raceway has just been reopened after a 20 million dollar renovation, and it is one awesome track I can tell you. Main straight leads onto a triple apex right continuous turn (belt through the first, lift it up and hard on the brakes, dive right and make a long right hand sweeper out of it..) and then left up the hill and over a tight right crest and into a dip, right kink and down to a tight left 2nd gear turn, followed by a rapid change of direction medium right kink as you go up through the gears.. down a short shoot to a left flat out kink.. then the real fun starts as you go down a couple of gears, dab on the brakes to settle the front and into a continuous bowl with a decent slope to it.. there are 3 apexes here as well, but I soon found best to stay up high and let the bowl naturally run the bike down to the last right apex, instant left and up through the gears as you belt back onto the straight and off for another fantastic lap of this brilliant bit of fun racetrack.. :p
I was a bit lucky to catch up with Troy Corser who helped in design, and with some guidance from him got to grips with the best way round.. what a blast..(y) Must have been going pretty well as I blew a glove at one point..:ROFLMAO:
Also very fortunate to have Mark to assist in the pit and on the long road there and back, and great to see Steve Battison bring his Classic SFC to visit as well.. had a bit of win as well for Mark in winning a $700 shopping voucher from Motul/Pirelli for his troubles.. well done mate and thanks for your support..:)

Ya Gotta Love Ya Laverda Racing.. and your mates..

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LaverdaIan said:
Well not today.. but last week saw me, good mate Mark Muir and the newly restored young Monty at One Raceway in NSW. The Raceway has just been reopened after a 20 million dollar renovation, and it is one awesome track I can tell you. Main straight leads onto a triple apex right continuous turn (belt through the first, lift it up and hard on the brakes, dive right and make a long right hand sweeper out of it..) and then left up the hill and over a tight right crest and into a dip, right kink and down to a tight left 2nd gear turn, followed by a rapid change of direction medium right kink as you go up through the gears.. down a short shoot to a left flat out kink.. then the real fun starts as you go down a couple of gears, dab on the brakes to settle the front and into a continuous bowl with a decent slope to it.. there are 3 apexes here as well, but I soon found best to stay up high and let the bowl naturally run the bike down to the last right apex, instant left and up through the gears as you belt back onto the straight and off for another fantastic lap of this brilliant bit of fun racetrack.. :p
I was a bit lucky to catch up with Troy Corser who helped in design, and with some guidance from him got to grips with the best way round.. what a blast..(y) Must have been going pretty well as I blew a glove at one point..:ROFLMAO:
Also very fortunate to have Mark to assist in the pit and on the long road there and back, and great to see Steve Battison bring his Classic SFC to visit as well.. had a bit of win as well for Mark in winning a $700 shopping voucher from Motul/Pirelli for his troubles.. well done mate and thanks for your support..:)

Ya Gotta Love Ya Laverda Racing.. and your mates..

:cool:
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I was at the former Hilton, now Best western Hotel on the Isle of Man, more than a few moons ago. I was enjoying a few beers in the bar on Senior race day night ( always a big party night back then) and took myself off to the (to use an Oz term) dunny. Upon opening the exit door I almost flattened a small dark haired chap, thought 'f*ck me, it's Troy Corser' to myself. We acknowledged each other with a vigourous but gentlemanly nod, and went on our seperate ways. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
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I thought one of the reasons they closed Wakefield was a noise issue.
That's great news they have reopened the circuit with some upgrades.
We need more circuits in WA. There is a new one being built in Albany, 120kms from me.
It's taken over 10 years before they even made a start on construction.
The motocross cuircut is now finished and the road circuit has finally started.
Nice track 3.5km long. Hope they finish it before I'm too old to ride it.
Albany motoplex if you want to check it out.
 
I had a chat with a Guzzi local who races and went to the oz supers, interesting info. I thought the track was homologated to run both ways, but that's cars only. Bikes will only go the same way as before. Heaps of earthworks to build berms for noise control, to placate the one and only neighbour who complained, they live miles away. The biggest issue was they ran for years with a non-compliant DA, Development Application and that made it easy to close it down till that was sorted. It brings in lots of cash into the town so thankfully it's all sorted and will run for decades now.
 
motoddrob said:
I thought one of the reasons they closed Wakefield was a noise issue.
That's great news they have reopened the circuit with some upgrades.
We need more circuits in WA. There is a new one being built in Albany, 120kms from me.
It's taken over 10 years before they even made a start on construction.
The motocross cuircut is now finished and the road circuit has finally started.
Nice track 3.5km long. Hope they finish it before I'm too old to ride it.
Albany motoplex if you want to check it out.
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They did Rob.. same old 'neighbourly' problems..
New owners have consulted with community and council about design and race programs to get permits..
Then poured just over 20 million into the rebuild..!!
AHRRC 2024 was the 1st meeting for Historic Bikes so there are a few blokes happy to be at the top of the record book lists..(y)
Not me of course, but I do get to flog my little mate around anyway..
Great result for everyone..
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Good stuff Ian.
Unfortunately more tracks get closed than build these days.
As I was saying the Albany Motoplex has been in the pipeline for over 10 years. Lots of hurdles to jump.
Financed by the State gov and Albany city council so you'd think it'd be rubber stamped but nah.
Pretty sure they have started on the road curcuit. 300 kays to my nearest circuit in Collie. That's a great track after they extended it, now 2.7 kays.
 
that bike followed me for miles one time a long while ago, well I say followed, me and Alan (Bell) had to keep stopping at junctions and waiting for him to turn up again. Remeber that one Alan, a great ride was that!
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