Gear Selector Spring

sfcpiet said:
Heel-toe is wonderful once you get used to it. Greatest advantage, for racers at least, no need to get UNDER the lever to change gear when heeled well over. Probably has saved a lot of boot caps... and toes!

Ideal set-up when wearing thongs, too. :LOL:

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Even with reverse pattern it would be good sometimes. One track in Norway has a tightening steep downhill right hander ("anxiety" nicknamed corner), 5th coming in, 3rd to get up out of the dip, no room for any boot under the lever.
 
Over 45 + plus years of Laverda ownership many many Kms I have experienced the broken spring issue 3 times, it has never left me stranded you can fudge the gears shifts up and down with a bit of fine footwork. What certainly helps if you have a ways to go that may involve a bit of traffic is to apply pressure up and down to the gear shift lever by using a couple of ockystraps aka bungee straps worked for me
Recently I fitted a new spring, nothing wrong with the old one but I just happened to have a new spring and thought why not replace it? The new spring for whatever reason was a bitch resulting in impossible downshifts without lifting up a tad on the lever, put the old one back in and 'BAM' perfect shifting resumed. On any trip out of town, I always carry a spare spring easy enough to replace you just have to lean the bike over aways.
 
Be nice but my shed is way too small for that, besides it's huge fun crawling about on the floor till it's time to get up. I do have a 600mm plastic drum I sit on when possible.
 
Vince said:
Be nice but my shed is way too small for that, besides it's huge fun crawling about on the floor till it's time to get up. I do have a 600mm plastic drum I sit on when possible.
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I agree....it`s brilliant rolling around on the floor underneath the bike ( just make sure it`s in gear so it doesn`t topple and fall forward and crush you to death )......
Lying on the floor is so much easier on your knees and back....only trouble is the spanner or whatever you need next is usually just out of reach so to save yourself the trouble of getting up you have to crawl or drag yourself across the floor to reach it....

A bikelift would be nice but there`s the expense , and as with Vince my garage is so small there wouldn`t me room for it and me in there at the same time...............see below...( Sorry about lack of Laverda , this pic is for illustration purposes only......).....


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After replacing the spring I am still needing to do a slow tap dance to get 1st gear, so it's down the ECCENTRIC ADJUSTMENT rabbit hole I go. I dread doing this, I once spent 3 months looking for 5th gear. I was hoping that changing the spring would not affect this but coming to a stop I need to slightly lift the lever or it won't select 1st. So hopefully lifting THE C CLAW will have it at the right height to engage the pin. I bloody hope so.
 
That's a potential issue, had it happen in the past but not this time. I now grease it up with Boat trailer grease. It has feel movement, just requires the lever to get bumped a pooftenth up before going down. Without the up, it just won't change down to 1st. My bet is the C just missing to select the pin.
 
I just finished it, had to drain the oil. Only 2 weeks and 1 ride day after doing an oil change. Drained it into a very clean stainless container and put it back after the job, it now feels better going through the box by hand, and hopefully, fixed and not be the ongoing saga that adjustment has been to me in the past. I also got my trailer lights working, corrosion had killed the right-side power. Typically I had used stainless bolts to hold the light assembly to the trailer but somehow the plastic lens bolts were fully rusty and had to be snapped off. Tomorrow I will do the drive and get some more stainless bolts for that. The Trailer will have a new bike to pick up next week just in time for Christmas.
 
If the weather cooperates I might do a lap of The Old Rd tomorrow to test my gear adjustment and the latest rear shock adjustment. Good excuse for Pie in the Sky for lunch.
 
So here we are 4 months later and for the last 3 or 4 rides I have has an interminate inability to down-change into the lower 3 gears. It needed a slight move of the gear lever up and then down, bloody annoying especially in traffic or charging into 35k bends not to mention dangerous thinking you're in 1st and really being in 2nds taking off from traffic lights. It doesn't happen every time but that is worse as you just don't know what to expect. I had another look today and found the eccentric was maxed out adjusting the C as high as possible. What happens is that C is slightly too low to catch the pin on the revolving gear selector. So I filed 1.5mm off the upper hook of the C keeping its shape. It feels more solid snaping over the pin now. Hope springs eternal and I easily get all gears now.
 
Vince, see my post above #42, I was experiencing the same problem that you described after fitting a new spring I even fitted a new concentric screw it didn't help. So as stated I put the old spring and C screw/adjuster back in and the bike was back to perfect shifting. Maybe it is worth trying a different spring, best of luck. HTH.
 
How weird, never seen this post before. Went out on Sunday riding around sunny Cornwall and the gear shift spring snapped fast forward to Wednesday and there is a post about the very same thing.
 
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