THE BEAUTY OF POWER
“IT WAS OUR FIRST, BARE-FRAME CUSTOM BUILD AND I’M VERY HAPPY WITH THE RESULT”
LAVERDAS are hardly common in Australia and custom-framed ones even rarer, but this high-performance Mk3 Motodd built by Brisbane workshop Redax Laverda is up there with any in the world.
Red Cawte is a retired oil and gas drilling engineer and lifelong Laverda tragic who has turned his hobby into a business restoring and reconditioning Laverdas. His former day job had him living out of Australia for many years, which has given him an international perspective on life, the universe and sourcing components, as you’ll soon discover.
“I started collecting parts from 2010, when we purchased the bare frame while travelling through the UK,” Red says. “I’d always wanted to build a custom-framed Laverda using modern suspension, wheels and tyres. There must have been 15 different manufacturers building specialist frames for Laverdas (back in the day), and the Mk3 Motodd is one of the best.”
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