Hi all. I had been away from the forum for a while dealing with further medical issues relating to pancreatic cancer, surgery, treatment, and recovery, and missed most of this past summers riding season as well as the previous summer. Two summers in a row with very little bike riding, bloody hell.
Anyway, I seem to be patched up again for the most part, very lucky to be a survivor, almost back to close to normal energy levels, and about to dust off a garage full of motorcycles and catch the last few weeks of the late riding season here before the snow flies.
For the Laverda's I spent a good part of this past weekend going through all three triples. I have the 79 1200 and the 82 1200 running and sorted again, and just have to put the carbs back together on the RGS, as the carbs on all three bikes were thoroughly gummed up from stale fuel from long disuse. The 79 1200 needed a new battery despite having been on a battery tender.
The very little bit of riding I have done this summer has been on a relatively recently acquired supercharged Kawasaki H2 SX SE that I could not resist having modified, now does 228 real rear wheel horsepower on a local dyno. Believe it or not it is much easier on my body to ride it than any of the older bikes. although I learned very quickly NOT to turn off the anti wheelie and the traction control the first (and last) time it's front wheel headed straight up on me accelerating hard at about 180 kph ........... I am not doing that again.
I have a lot of forum reading to do to catch up, looking forward to a few hours of browsing. Hope everyone is well.
Best Regards
Paul LeClair
Where there is a will there is a way!
