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[Big Dave]

Images from the Laverda Concours at Cleveland, Brisbane today. Uploaded at full res to Flickr (play the slide show.)
https://flic.kr/s/aHsjZPokDg

This was my favourite - sentimental reasons.


https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2938/14510289678_2c626d6733_z.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigdavespics/14510289678)

[unstuck]

Some Gorrrrregus stuff in there, a lot of those should go in the Pics that make you jizz thread. Nice work.:not:

[HenryDorsetCase]

That CB750 cafe racer is quite nice.

[GrayWolf]

Some awesome bikes, couple of nice Z1's,, and oh that Vincent, the 'REAL CLASS' V-Twin :drool:

[HenryDorsetCase]

Some awesome bikes, couple of nice Z1's,, and oh that Vincent, the 'REAL CLASS' V-Twin :drool:

I hope there were a bunch of old farts standing round sucking their teeth and tut tutting at the Vincent with the modern wheels etc.

[Big Dave]

I videoed the Lavs:

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I had to drop the muzak over it because the PA was blasting the type of music that gets vids deleted from YT.

Here's some of the other bikes too.

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The Indian at the start is my current long term test bike:

www.runningbull.info (http://runningbull.info)

[Laava]

I videoed the Lavs:

Pretty sure the 750 at the 1.35min mark belongs to my mate House, who also has a Laverda race bike based on the SF.
Good to see he drags it out of the man cave every now and then.
I miss my SF750, it was a nice handling bike but not without it's issues as all italian bikes seem to be.

[Big Dave]

Pretty sure the 750 at the 1.35min mark belongs to my mate House, who also has a Laverda race bike based on the SF.
Good to see he drags it out of the man cave every now and then.
I miss my SF750, it was a nice handling bike but not without it's issues as all italian bikes seem to be.

Not that they weren't appreciated for it back then, but history shows that style-wise at least they were a very long way ahead of their time.

[SPman]

The Jota was the "man's bike" of the 70's, although there was a nice 750 SFC running around the North Shore in the mid 70's. I craved an SFC 1000 in the 80's (I was "between bikes" for several years.....). Every time I went to see the folks at Whangamata, I'd see an SFC blitzing the Kopu-Hikuai-Whangamata road. I was sure the bastard would wait for me, then taunt me!

[Laava]

Fuck yeah! I got mine looking fairly sharp before selling on.

[eelracing]

This was my favourite - sentimental reasons.


Ok i'll ask,why would that be then?

[AllanB]

Can't beat the look of a slightly warmed over SOHC CB750

I do wish for a Jota though - hard core stuff when I was a young lad. Stuff of dreams.

[Big Dave]

Ok i'll ask,why would that be then?

I was a kid on a mini bike and the bloke across the road's best mate had one.

[AllanB]

HA similar - it was yellow fastback Norton that used to frequent down road when I was a lad. And the Z900 over the road, but he crashed that and got a Camaro. Apparently Camaro's cannot leave the drive without doing a durb :yes:

[GrayWolf]

I hope there were a bunch of old farts standing round sucking their teeth and tut tutting at the Vincent with the modern wheels etc.

The BEst 'Vincent" I've ever seen was a Norvin.... I have no issue with modernising, It's the Motor that is the special part of a Vinnie.....

[Big Dave]

I wouldn't like how much noise it would make, but otherwise...

<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigdavespics/14696686095" title="Laverda Concors by David Cohen, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2924/14696686095_10fa86ebc5_z.jpg" width="640" height="427" alt="Laverda Concours"></a>

[carbonhed]

Looks as "dry as a cheeep" to use the local vernacular. Gotta love QLD in the winter.

Nice bikes too.