Bernhard Zoier was infected with the LAVERDA-virus already in his early youth but he had to wait patiently for many years before he was able to buy his first LAVERDA.

"In the early 70's I worshipped the "real guys" who rode their heavy bikes to the pool wearing nothing but swimmers and a helmet. The bikes were standing outside the café, the girls lined up at the bar with a sparkle in their eyes. The roaring 750 one of those guys was riding became my obsession.

At the age of 18 I unearthed my fist motorbike from the barn of a mountain farmer. What followed were weeks on end of cleaning, derusting and spraypainiting. But my Easy-Rider-dream came to a sudden end in a mega-crash. Enthusiasm as well as all my pocket money were gone.

Then came a job and a family, bicycle sports and flying. For my journeys to Southern Europe, North Africa, the Balkans and Russia I had to get another bike. First a single, later a twin. I went on bike-holidays with my wife and rides with friends to Friuli and Slovenia. It was these friends who revived my love for classic motorcycles. I had to have a 750 LAVERDA, just like the one that used to stand in front of the pool in 1974!

In 2009 I finally got lucky on the LAVERDA-Freunde website. Wolfgang Velikogne had advertised a LAVERDA 750 SF. When he removed the dust-covered blanket and the bike jumped to life when he first hit the starter button I was hooked. Now I frequently thunder over the Ploecken-Pass southwards with my classic-bike mates and am always amazed to realise that the closer she gets to Breganze, the better the LAVERDA runs.

Through the LAVERDA-Friends I got in touch with Hannes Micheler. I always marvel at his collection of classic bikes. Moreover the first owner of his 750 SF was the guy at the pool whom I admired so much way back when....!!!

Because of the fact that real LAVERDA-Friends rarely are satisfied with just the one bike, Bernhard bought a beautiful 1000 3CL in November 2009.

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