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

Made my first trip with my new Fomula today after having some issues on Wednesday. Engine was just running on both cylinders at high revs.
Also rear breake became hot and blocked. A seal in the master cylinder got big in the last 8 years where the bike wasn‘t used.
Repair kit was not available so I had to by a new brake pump and also gave the bike new spark plugs, connectors and cables.
Today I was runnig perfect. 👍😃
 
Spent a few days previous week sorting out the mirage to try and make the black swan Ockham meet but Saturday eve to my horror saw both tommaselli Clipons cracked 😱 so I had to drill and tap and put an Allen screw down through the ally and into the splined metal taper handle. I can put all my weight on the levers and they don’t move but it will always be on my mind, I do have the original Jota bars but have always preferred clip ons.
 

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RobinSF1 said:
Rode over the Simplon pass today, Swiss side much better than the Italian side, except for some very orderly roadworks. Lots of Swiss bikers amongst the throng.
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Done that a few times and you are right. Swiss side has perfect road surface. Suddenly changes to pot holes and adverse camber on the Italian side but I know where I would rather be....
 
oldiggy said:
Spent a few days previous week sorting out the mirage to try and make the black swan Ockham meet but Saturday eve to my horror saw both tommaselli Clipons cracked 😱 so I had to drill and tap and put an Allen screw down through the ally and into the splined metal taper handle. I can put all my weight on the levers and they don’t move but it will always be on my mind, I do have the original Jota bars but have always preferred clip ons.
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Good find 👍
 
oldiggy said:
Spent a few days previous week sorting out the mirage to try and make the black swan Ockham meet but Saturday eve to my horror saw both tommaselli Clipons cracked 😱 so I had to drill and tap and put an Allen screw down through the ally and into the splined metal taper handle. I can put all my weight on the levers and they don’t move but it will always be on my mind, I do have the original Jota bars but have always preferred clip ons.
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Probably only 40ish years old…. Nothing is built to last anymore 😉
 
oldiggy said:
Spent a few days previous week sorting out the mirage to try and make the black swan Ockham meet but Saturday eve to my horror saw both tommaselli Clipons cracked 😱 so I had to drill and tap and put an Allen screw down through the ally and into the splined metal taper handle. I can put all my weight on the levers and they don’t move but it will always be on my mind, I do have the original Jota bars but have always preferred clip ons.
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Peter Collins- he won the race by the way..
 

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I had the weld snap off on my TOG at the hairpin of mallory Park a few years ago, (stock Jota bars) people might remeber the crash, onlookers said the crash caused the break, err well yes, but it had let go and hinged down on the weld prior to loss of control, and unable to use front brake, the weld was shit, more cold shut that weld and rust showing in the crack..

I have been nicked for speeding in Switz, a lower limit applied because I was towing a trailer,, the ticket took eight months to arrive at home (UK) and I ingnored it, a month later they were demanding more money, and a month after that they were threatening seven days in prison if I ever enter the country again. I think it was out of statute, In UK that is 14 days for radar cameras and any offence that you are not verbally cautioned at the scene for. but I paid the original fine, and left it there. France is getting good at sending speeding tickets and parking tickets to UK, so watch out!
CLEM
 
Exmoor beast said:
Met him once- at a Speedway show talking to Lew Coffin & PC came up behind Lew and put his hand on his shoulder, Lew turns and says “ Hello Peter, I’m just telling this young man how I beat you!” Absolute classic! 😂
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Olle came to a practice night, said he hadn’t ridden for two years.

Went out on a borrowed bike, did a few laps, broke the track record and came into the pits.

He got off the bike, fell on the ground and said “Now I am fucked” 😂
 
CLEMTOG said:
I had the weld snap off on my TOG at the hairpin of mallory Park a few years ago, (stock Jota bars) people might remeber the crash, onlookers said the crash caused the break, err well yes, but it had let go and hinged down on the weld prior to loss of control, and unable to use front brake, the weld was shit, more cold shut that weld and rust showing in the crack..

I have been nicked for speeding in Switz, a lower limit applied because I was towing a trailer,, the ticket took eight months to arrive at home (UK) and I ingnored it, a month later they were demanding more money, and a month after that they were threatening seven days in prison if I ever enter the country again. I think it was out of statute, In UK that is 14 days for radar cameras and any offence that you are not verbally cautioned at the scene for. but I paid the original fine, and left it there. France is getting good at sending speeding tickets and parking tickets to UK, so watch out!
CLEM
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France is also liable to confiscate your vehicle on the spot because it's had quite enough of foreigners thinking the country is a free for all.
Paul
 
Got some new bits from Piet - RGS headstock washer-spacers. Wonderful!

I know it's not much, and I know no-one will ever see them, but I have an inbuilt dislike of re-fitting battered parts.
(New and virgin on the left, old and battered on the right. In case you couldn't tell ...;))

Thanks Piet.
 

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