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Old Farmer Chris and his agricultural implement, Gary Hurd and his vain attempt to get Alan ‘into the nines’ on an old Suzuki, MG and never-ready Bandit 12, plus an embittered old man and his Yam R7 minitwin

Story so far... Old Farmer Chris finds a Mirage in a hedge and sets about patching it up with baler twine and some old bits of five bar gate. Chris Newbigging 1979 Laverda Mirage Bargain Mirage just an illusion Garden find Laverda fires up. The costs are substantial, but nothing done right ever comes cheap Resurrecting a Laverda triple so badly neglected as this one was not, and is still not a wise idea, and likely financially ruinous. Let’s be clear. If you haven’t followed the whole saga, this 1979 Mirage 1200 was gifted to me by reader Tom Petty, who was tasked with clearing the estate of his late friend Eric Dowler. The Laverda (and a Triumph T150V) had been taken off the road in 1991 for repairs that…

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Practical Sportsbikes (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2023

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