Club Laverda Qld Concours - Lots of pic's!!!

[pete]

A few of us from here and the Katana Australia forum headed down to the Club Laverda Qld Concours today for a look see.

I got a larger memory card for my camera but still managed to fill it... I really need a much newer camera!

I somehow neglected to photograph a single Laverda all day...

So, the meet up:





Eric's Kat is in need of a rebuild so he rode his Harley:



Derek was on his beast of course (yes those are BST wheels and Ohlin's forks and there is more lurking there):



And Paul needed to get his Pantah out for a run so his Kat stayed home:



And there's too many photos to label each one and it'll take me all night, so I'm just gonna post them all and might stick a note here and there if something stands out...

First off though, John this one's for you!!

[pete]

This is a genuine Nero... we had to restrain Paul from getting too intimate with it...

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Genuine Castrol 6 Hour Honda:



The most disturbing paint job on display:





The paint job on this GSX1400 was impressive:









There were a few people about:





Another one for John:

[pete]

Love the Scrambler, and that Arrow pipe was one of the inspirations for my 450's pipe:

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These appear to be done by a local Brisbane custom bike shop Ellaspede... they seem to be able to do neat custom work, although if you look at the tyres I think there's a bit of form over function there:

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Love the pipes on this Norton, and from memory it was supercharged as well:

[pete]

This unrestored 1926 Norton really took my eye:









And then we headed out to the bike parking which was almost as good as the show itself:

[pete]

You can tell this Kat isn't a trailer queen:

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Aside from the Kats the GS(X) models were very under represented today, but we found this very nice example of an 1100 to gawk at:







And a brief chat with the owner of this SB4 revealed he has attempted to polish it up with some bitumen:

[pete]

If I was to buy a modern bike, it would be either a Triumph Scrambler or possibly one of these:





That's where the camera got full but snapped these two with the work iPhone as it was quite tasty:





And that's all folks, enjoy!

[gs scott]

Pete,
Looked like a great day - thank you for sharing!!

[steve murdoch]

Thanks for the great pics, Pete.
What an amazing array of bikes.
Tough seeing a rashed-up Bimota but at least it is being ridden. The spoked wheel CB1100R is outstanding.

[pete]

No worries guys, glad you enjoyed them

That SB4 certainly was hard to take in! Such a piece of exotica in that condition hurts... but yes at least you know it's no show pony...

[cowboyup3371]

This is a genuine Nero... we had to restrain Paul from getting too intimate with it...

It's really funny Pete that you post a picture of this bike and I had to do a serious double take when I saw it.

As you might have seen from one of my posts, my stepdaughter is really getting serious about wanting a motorcycle when she turns 16. As typical for anything she REALLY wants, she will start drawing pictures of them almost non-stop. Here's one she drew that has an almost uncanny resemblance to the bike you show here EVEN THOUGH she's never seen one like it. In fact, she was trying to draw the cruiser seen in my Total Control book.



Great pictures of the show. Wish we could have been there.