What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?

Jo said:
Great first outing! It's a pity that it had to be just in such weather right away.
I hope your toes haven't developed any webbings ...
:ROFLMAO:

Cheers,
Jo
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Went through a creek crossing today. Knee deep. Bike is getting tested! I also updated the picture posted earlier with a 4mb file. It looks better.

Monsoonal weather here. It's nicer when it is raining.
 
redax5 said:
just posted your photo on my Facebook page, looking at getting a poster made
just love that shot
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Next week heading down to my favourite NT road. The south section of Kakadu highway near Pine Creek. Elevation changes as well as corners. A reccy run a must. Roos are nothing there. Dodging water buffalo the hazard.
 
Adam, would you like a job cleaning my bikes? I can’t quite get my head round how the likes of you, Patrick and others keep your bikes so unfeasibly clean.

never mind the bikes, how about the floor, I mean, do you do anything in there Adam?
CLEM
 
Bit the bullet Friday night and did a small bit of maintenance that I have been putting off - cleaned the air filter element on the AE!!
Access is a real pain in the arse, but anyway is good to dismantle the whole battery / tool tray / air cleaner, bit of a clean and put all back together tightly as this is an area prone to vibration which makes you think something wrong with your engine at certain revs. (Plenty fixing points with nuts and bolts that can come slightly loose)
Meanwhile, this morning took the Orange one for a quick blast. Tropical rainy weather here but rain no worries, dries quickly. Anyway, I did notice I was being a bit conservative on the wet roads (perhaps even in general) so perhaps I have been riding the gentleman's cruiser AE too much!
Have even been contemplating getting rid of the triple and replacing with another 750 but with disc brakes. (Not sure that I can even that that step:eek:)
 
Diablo Loco said:
Next week heading down to my favourite NT road. The south section of Kakadu highway near Pine Creek. Elevation changes as well as corners. A reccy run a must. Roos are nothing there. Dodging water buffalo the hazard.
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Dorat Road (Old Stuart Hwy) south from Adelaide River is OK for corners etc but was as rough as guts 20 years ago when we were there, it wouldn’t have improved since then. We lived near Adelaide River for 11 years, the majority of my riding was off road.
 
It used to be the standard Sunday ride for us in the ´70s to blast down to the only decent corners near Darwin that started after Adelaide River towards Pine Creek. Bumpy and shitty surface but the Lavs loved it, then the boring 160kmh+ trundle back to Darwin. There were some nice swimming/camping spots off the road along there too, but I was told the new highway bypassed it all. You could hear the Charlie Pride jukebox blasting out from the popular Adelaide River pub as you went past.
 
If you know the place, yesterday lunch run was south, turn off at the Old Bynoe Road before Acacia Hills, not a bad bit of road down to a creek crossing (near the lagoon I think) before Darwin River Road, kneedeep, Bike survived. Then onto Cox Peninsular Road back to the new(ish) Berry Springs Tavern for good steak, backtrack to Finn Road toward Darwin at 9000revs, up Jenkins? to Bees Creek road and around the back way past the volly fireys near Virginia and pop out at the highway. Miss much boredom.

Maybe this should be Aussie Depository, because that was yesterday...

Today was Ride in storm to brekky at Coolalinga, ride through rain to lunch at the tap and back to Palmy when the rain stopped. :D
 
2volts said:
Dorat Road (Old Stuart Hwy) south from Adelaide River is OK for corners etc but was as rough as guts 20 years ago when we were there, it wouldn’t have improved since then. We lived near Adelaide River for 11 years, the majority of my riding was off road.
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Dorat is next week, will report condition :D. Pop out near Emerald Springs, no servo there anymore but dongas and pub. Highway not bad riding there. south to Kakadu Highway. Up that for my favourite bit about 80? 90? ks and back, lunch at Pine creek, back up the Kakadu Hwy, overnighter at Cooinda and reverse back to Darwin the following day.
 
It had been pointed out to me by Marnix when I got my SFC back that the front was a bit high and maybe the fork tubes were those from a triple, so a bit longer than the 750 tubes.
The more I looked at the bike, the more I thought I needed to look into it, particularly since I had a spare 750 fork.
So today, it was out with the new and in with the old.
Eureka. Thank you Marnix.
Compare the two tubes on the left of the photo. The longer one was on the bike.

Paul

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Paul Marx said:
It had been pointed out to me by Marnix when I got my SFC back that the front was a bit high and maybe the fork tubes were those from a triple, so a bit longer than the 750 tubes.
The more I looked at the bike, the more I thought I needed to look into it, particularly since I had a spare 750 fork.
So today, it was out with the new and in with the old.
Eureka. Thank you Marnix.
Compare the two tubes on the left of the photo. The longer one was on the bike.

Paul

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It’s great to have a few genuine experts on here who have so much knowledge and experience to call on. Fantastic 👍.

P.S. Glad to see you remembered to carefully tie up the callipers before taking the photo 😁
 
sideshow said:
well done mate, , that is the best news I have heard all day, hope you can now ride it pain free.
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Thanks, I'll give it a try as soon as the temperatures leave 0°C and when the roads have dried a bit.

I'm beginning to be reconciled with the thing.
When I at last got it back, after 5 years, even though the work was high quality, it wasn't quite my bike.
This was my bike.
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and then, this

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Getting my grubby little hands in there after having taken her clothes off has made us more intimate.

Paul
 
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