International Laverda Owners Club

25th Anniversary Rally

also celebrating

50 Years of Laverda

This is my personal record of some of the sights this great event, which was held from July 16th - 18th 1999.
I was due to attend from Friday evening - Sunday but unfortunately plans changed at the last minute, so I only attended for the Saturday evening main event and Sunday.

Family and other responsibilities mean that I do not get out as much as I used to so it was really great to meet up with so many old friends, most of whom I had not seen for more than 5 years.  The band were spot on, the wine flowed and a fine time was had !


Eager anticipation in the impressive dining room
 

Excellent band doing their stuff 

... inspiring many to move ...


The hardworking team ensured that we could all buy loads of regalia

Because of my late arrival the photographs I took, shown on this site, were taken on Saturday evening and Sunday morning.  Unfortunately the sun did not shine on Sunday, so I was not able to capture the full glittering glory of many of the great array of Laverdas.

All the photos were taken with my newly acquired Olympus digital camera.  Most were taken at 640x480 original resolution which proved to be not up to the quality of the normal, higher, resolution.  So I'm apologising for the quality of these photos - but they're what I've got and they do record some great bikes, so I hope you'll enjoy them regardless !

The bike pictures I have spread over a few pages which I've roughly themed by type:
 
1200s - the greatest (not that I'm biased, of course...
1000s - Jotas, SFCs etc.
older 750s
new twins
500s & general
interestingly modified machines
I would welcome information about any of the bikes that I have pictured on these pages.  I took the photos by wandering around and snapping away.  I did not make notes, nor did I get details from owners.  If you can let me have details about any of these, I will happily fill out the descriptions.

Most important link - the official ILOC web site

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