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

[Cosi]

Put the voltmeter in the same place

 

[Eurocycleguy]

Bought the complimentary Dellorto VHB 30AD carb. Bike came with two VHB 30ASs

 

[Dellortoman]

If it was complimentary, why did you have to buy it?


My apologies for the crappy joke, you obviously mean complementary. If you'd spoken it rather than written it, I'd never have known the difference.

Complimentary - given or supplied free of charge.
"a complimentary bottle of wine"

Complementary - combining in such a way as to enhance or emphasize the qualities of each other or another.
"they had different but complementary skills"

The two words are homophones. Although many reference sources call them homonyms. Homonyms are defined as having the same sound and the same spelling, but presumably because the difference in spelling is trivial, it seems OK to call them Homonyms. Evidently the words used to define the English language can be as flexible as the language itself.

Please excuse my pedantry. I find this linguistics stuff interesting. Sometimes English can be a bugger of a language.

 

[ozijotati]

Rode the fuck out of it hooning around in the snowy mountains with the Sydney laverda club. Awesome
Tom

 

[Paul Marx]

2°C and a very cold northerly wind in from the steppes of Russia.
A ride out with Corinne to the Canadian memorial at Vimy ridge.

 

[The Sock]

Tidied up my front brake hose runs and trial fitted my new Brembo four pots, to determine the thickness of the spacers required.

 

[ngiles]

After the loss of power on the Flying Kangaroo and feedback on the forum I fitted a voltmeter and charged the battery. Did a test ride and still had power loss - found cylinder no. 1 wasn't firing and then checked for spark - found the plug was dead, so replaced and she's back to her normal running behaviour. So now I'm watching the voltage to see whether the battery is bad. Can't work out how a spark plug failure could be linked to a bad battery....?

 

[Vince]

Weak spark= fouled plug. But I am no expert. So with my big alternator, my indicator shows 12.9 volts ignition on but not running on a fully charged battery. At 3k and above it shows 14.5 volts but always over 13 volts at anything over idle. Anything over 14.5 is overcharging and can damage the battery and usually, that's a dud Regulator. Thats .with no headlight on

 

[Paul Marx]

Dead spark plug could be linked to starting difficulties which could be linked to weak battery.
Apart from that?

Paul

 

[pf1]

There used to be a dead Spanish insect in that speedo.

 

[Perry]

Speedo Gonzales

 

[ngiles]

There used to be a dead Spanish insect in that speedo.

Sure was - used to irritate me as it vibrated around the bottom, so I had Jason clean it out - surprised the bio-security folk didn't take the speedo and destroy it on arrival at the dockside given Aussie paranoia about the introduction of foreign species. Had I realised your affection for it I would have popped it in the post...

 

[ngiles]

Sure was - used to irritate me as it vibrated around the bottom, so I had Jason clean it out - surprised the bio-security folk didn't take the speedo and destroy it on arrival at the dockside given Aussie paranoia about the introduction of foreign species. Had I realised your affection for it I would have popped it in the post...

Here you go, a photo for your mantelpiece

 

[pf1]

I hope you buried it with full Laverda honours.

 

[CLEMTOG]

"Tidied up my front brake hose runs and trial fitted my new Brembo four pots, to determine the thickness of the spacers required."

WHAT!!!! non stock parts on your triple?????
pot, kettle and black come to mind. You will get locked up, fed on bread and water and banned from future public apearances, unless the bike is covered at all times. Oh alright then I suppose its the arthritus in your aging body not having the strength to bring back those 165MPH sprints to reality.

If the adapters are correctly made they should just bolt on, no Spacers (read shims) needed, mine have them but they were proto types, what is more worrying is that there is no disc surface poking out through the pads, so that they do not wear the whole pad but leave a tiny ridge unworn, this could be dangereous when the pads get low, if those ridges were to contact each other, but I keep an eye on it and grind off the ridge every now and then.
CLEM

 

[Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond]

Tidied up my front brake hose runs and trial fitted my new Brembo four pots, to determine the thickness of the spacers required.

Four pots are pretty impressive !

 

[Bottler]

Sure was - used to irritate me as it vibrated around the bottom, so I had Jason clean it out - surprised the bio-security folk didn't take the speedo and destroy it on arrival at the dockside given Aussie paranoia about the introduction of foreign species. Had I realised your affection for it I would have popped it in the post...

Not so much paranoia, more like prudence to prevent mad cow disease, foot n mouth etc.

 

[lavgert]

Mounted one of Shauns oilfilter plate kits to my newly acquired 750SF. Great!
Now I am waiting for the new painted tank and side panels ...
Ciao, Gert

 

[The Sock]

Replaced my brake master cylinder which Paddy had serviced in superquick time.

 

[Cosi]

Four pots are pretty impressive !

Like these ones