Chronicles of Alan; Motorcycle Days 9

Just before the Laverda Factory was finally closed ( several restarts were tried)

they built one of the most amazing Endurance Racing Bikes ever seen a V6 Engine'd Monster

I have put an Open Museum Day at the Start of this , and Below a Lap of The Valencia Race Track on Board one of these very rare Machines.

Following on from my last Post and delving back into the past a bit.

The first Laverda I ever saw was Peter Pl., Highly Modified , Custom Spray Job , 3 into 1 Exhaust , and doing a Robot to Robot race with him along Ontdekkers Road one night is how I figured My Rings were worn on My Kawasaki 900 with the 1000 Conversion, cause at first we were about even and then he started to pull away from me after about 3 Drags.

This caused me to remove the Head and barells, replace the rings and notice a Big Improvement.

Another beauty of Working at Lucas was that I was able to use the Carburetor Departments Jet Drills to make my own jet sizes , and really fine tune it.

In number 8 of this series I mentioned a Moto Guzzi Machine but said no more on it:-

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Here is an item from Youtube showing this other Italian Beauty

By the time I was at Lucas for a while Peter had bought a Moto-Guzzi Le Mans Series 2 850 and was very happy with it. I rode it a couple of times and was impressed with the stiff Frame, Great Handling , Exhaust note , and the speed it got together.

If I do not mention Moto-Guzzi on my next Lucas post , please remind me!

The one I bought ( many years later) was the series 3 with 1000cc which was not common, most of them being 850cc., Guzzi also made a bike that was Automatic, very unusual in those Days.

Wayne would get on the Guzzi , myself on The Laverda , and in a Top Gear Roll on the Guzzi would just steam ( steem if you prefer) away . until the

Laverda hit about 6500rpm and it would start reeling the Guzzi in rapidly!

Just BTW Guzzi in the 1950's built a V8 engined Racing Motorcycle and I managed to find an item on Youtube on it:

Please indulge me in my reminiscing my past!

Until Next Time My Friends!