"It's always a pleasure to hear from you and your stories... Unfortuately I didn't have a better video of a Laverda Jota to upload in my video, except the unbalanced carbs bike. I know it was not the best way to show a Laverda triple, but it gives the idea of what I was talking about"
don't worry Dom, its probably me being highly critical and wrong at the same time, the thing is, I hear and see a lot of triples that start on two cylinders and then idle badly, the same bikes need half choke to restart a warm or hot engine. Both of these demonstrate wrong settings! I have no idea of statistics but of those who do home maintenance, I have only come accross a very few who even own a device for acurately balancing the carbs, about double that number own a good torque wrench.
recently I came accross a situation of note, the individual concerened is largley a British bike fan, and he owns and restores around a bike every two years, rarely selling on, but he has owned several modern bikes, BMW twins and Jap V twins and fours, (these come and go) currently he has a Scott, a Rudge, a BSA twin (single carb), a 410 touring BSA Gold Star with 5 speed, a T120 Triumph twin (two carbs) a Sunbeam, an AJS, a 250BSA in a Suzuki chassis. His current bike is a BMW R90S with twin Dellortto's. I was asked if I would like to ride the bike, which I accepted, oh boy was it a nice ride, but the tyres felt ancient and hard (slightly damp roads) and it was hard to start and re-start, it went OK, pulled strongly, I didnt see much more than 100MPH maybe 103/5. I suggested that he get new tyres (later found that the originals were 14 years old!) and sort the carbs, this I did for him, taking the carbs home with me, and then later he brought the bike to my workshop for fitting of same and balancing, yes balancing! he thought that looking at the carb throats and making sure the slides move together was OK, once set up the bike started easilly and restarted good as well,he was well pleased, but I never did balance the carbs on his Bonny! he still does not posesss any balancng instrumentation, and has had the carbs apart to fit new cables (higher handlebars), but rebalanced his own way. This man is an engineer and does cylinder head work, rebores and crank grinding on a daily basis.
This makes he think that a pol would interesting, Laverda triple owners only, who do all their own work, question one, do you have carb balancing instrumentation, and question two, do you have acurate low scale torque wrench (8mm cam studs?) and acurate higher scale torque wrench (9mm cylinder studs?)
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but in my video I was concentrated mainly on the so called maxi-moto, the big girls that tried to fight back the Japanese advancing worldwide. I should have included Moto Morini 350, but it wasn't a big bike, so I left it out. Cheers. Domenico
