'82 Jota bent rear footrest support

eric

eric

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solihull west midlands
      Greetings Guru's,

              About ten weeks ago l bought a dilapidated, and abused Jota, it would appear to have

      been dropped heavily, on it's right side and bent the triangular support for the rear footrest,

      and exhaust bracket.Will this affect the handling? Should l try and  bend it back out? What

      would be the best method? Heat? Can l leave it, and bend the exhaust hanger out, so that the

      exhaust doesn't touch the rear footrest?

                Thanks for your help in the past, your advice has always been excellent.

                                  eric
 
Eric

There's a frame repair guy (Dave Kellett) in Brisbane in Australia who still works on Laverda frames because there's quite a few there and people ride them hard all year round and fall off sometimes. Anyway, he says that the frames are very easy to straighten, but they also bend fairly easily. You probably ought to see if you can find somebody in the UK who can check the alignment and straighten whatever needs to be straightened. My first 3c got sideswiped by a car hard enough to bend the same triangle as is bent on yours (and flatten the muffler too), but I was young and stupid and poor and never got it fixed.

Ken
 
    Thanks Ken, but l'm in the West Midlands, U.K. I've had a laser down the frame, and it's

    straight with the headstock, l've a few idea's about bending it back, but worried about

    heat affecting the rest of the frame, and whether anyway it will affect the handling.

            eric
 
eric said:
     Thanks Ken, but l'm in the West Midlands, U.K. I've had a laser down the frame, and it's

     straight with the headstock, l've a few idea's about bending it back, but worried about

     heat affecting the rest of the frame, and whether anyway it will affect the handling.

             eric
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Eric, I have a buddy in Aldridge. Nicest bloke you ever met. He has a full blown engineering facility and he would be a very good man for you to talk to. Tell him Joe sent you...Henry at Alumcraft on Maybrook Industrial estate...He is highly experienced in this kind of work...Send me your email address to gotojoe123@aol.com and I'll send you his full details

kind regards,

joe
 
Get a bar in it and bend it back, bit of local heat may help, depends on how bent it is.

If you can organise a meet with your bouncy avitar girl I'll come down and fix it for you.. :D


      Keith
 
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