Quote from: mickyvee on October 21, 2011, 07:06:09 AM
No doubt! It was always a big old heavy bus! But, oh, the noise, the NOISE!

ooooohhh yeah!
Laverda SFC in Assen

Quote from: brimo on October 22, 2011, 01:23:31 AM
ooooohhh yeah!

Hmmm... Sounds decidedly flatulent to me!  Find a good 70's, 80's Ducati twin with a reverse cone megaphone. Now THAT is a symphony! 

  My 120 Jota had twin stainless "silencers" and sounded like Armageddon. To my ears it was spine tingling, much more so than a bevel twin! Each to their own though!

 Laverda competing at Phillip Island last weekend in the superstock race

And a nice shiny Duc 

Not just show ponys 

brimo, nice Dr. Strangelove pic in your avatar. POE!!! One of my all time fav movies. Used to watch it on the college campus in the 70s every week for a dollar with all my drunk friends. Good times!!

Back to bike pics.

Quote from: fastwin on October 22, 2011, 06:53:04 PM
brimo, nice Dr. Strangelove pic in your avatar. POE!!! One of my all time fav movies. Used to watch it on the college campus in the 70s every week for a dollar with all my drunk friends. Good times!!

Back to bike pics.

Yes, Sellers and Kubrick in their prime.
And back to the bikes
Some really nice Guzzis and more here
http://www.pipeburn.com/home/tag/moto-guzzi

Another Pierre Tereblache design!

Lose the exhaust wrap and I'm on board.

Quote from: zarn02 on October 27, 2011, 04:49:59 PM
Lose the exhaust wrap and I'm on board.

The bike pictured above was the concept bike. The V7 Racer available in the U.S. doesn't have the chrome tank or the exhaust wrap.

The Europeans get the same bike, but with a chromed plastic tank.

^^ And a ridiculously kitsch parody it looks too 

(Not just Europe, Australia also get the chrome-look plastic tank).

Gilera Ferro..  interesting bike.. has an automatic clutch

I want this...



... and worse still.... its for sale... just a couple of hours drive away.

Quote from: ungeheuer on October 27, 2011, 10:05:03 PM
I want this...



... and worse still.... its for sale... just a couple of hours drive away.

My brother had one of these and prior to that a red & white version of the same, conti mufflers and all, used to shake the house coming up the street, but jeez the electrics were a pregnant dog.
best picture I've got at the moment

Quote from: brimo on October 28, 2011, 01:15:59 AM
My brother had one of these and prior to that a red & white version of the same, conti mufflers and all, used to shake the house coming up the street, but jeez the electrics were a pregnant dog.
best picture I've got at the moment

I had one of 'em too.  Conti mufflers and all   .  

Never had any trouble whatsoever with the electrics (Nippon Denso gauges worked really well  ).  Mine used to have a semi-regular party trick of ripping the rear sprocket bolts out of the hub.  The hub was always fine just sucked the thread clean off the bolts.  

Here's the best pic I've got of it: Me threatening it yet again with a number 12 fixing stick...


But I'm being indulgent.  Back to the Italian exotica.......