Paul LeClair new project and 1982 Mirage 1200 TS Series 2 FOR SALE

henrywillms said:
Paul....when is the last yime you sold a Laverda...your 750 SFC? None of it probably makes any financial sense given your location and the high degree of craftsmanship and "LOONIES" (term for the Canadian dollar for you non Canucks and maybe also a term for those who invest in Laverdas) that you put into your bikes.

So you may want to look at it as is it something you want to do or would you rather take up ball room dancing or macrame...o5 God forbid Pickle Ball?
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Hi Henry

yes, last Laverda I sold as a running bike was my former 8000 series 1971 drum brake SFC 750.although I did also sell most of a 1981 Laverda 1200 TS to Wolfgang Haerter as a pile of parts around the same time.

I can't say I miss the 71 SFC 750 as a rider, bloody hell that thing beat the crap out of me every time I rode it any distance.

As I still have three Laverda triples, 2 180's and a 120, I have set out to sell one of the 180's, they are very similar to each other. Adding another 180 even if a "Jota" doesn't really make much sense other than the project aspect. I have been learning new things with the current 97 Guzzi Centauro V10 project, about to embark on the fuel injection assembly and tuning learning curve. I also learned a bunch of different things with the 1957 Gilera 150 Sport project last year.

I have some experience with turbocharging and setting a turbo up with a carbureted 6 cylinder air cooled motorcycle motor (the 1979 Honda CBX that I successfully completed), maybe turbocharging my fuel injected Kawasaki ZX 14 to 400 hp makes more "sense" from a "next project" perspective :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :eek::rolleyes:
 
Steve G: Good insightful reply with the Lower Mainland overview. I always assumed Canadians
after the introduction of the national sales tax (7%) really went into frugal mode. Regarding sand
cast and KO 750 Hondas sometimes hard to see values as my 1975 Rickman CR 750 K0 RC ENG.
built 836 motor etc etc and very rare does not elicit much interest or comparable valuation. Those
Mecum Kawasakis surprised everybody. No wonder 20 years ago Brits were buying Jap junk and
filling containers,shipping them back to the UK and making profits from the Vancouver area as the
bikes were so cheap and unwanted. Reminds me of your super cheap Mick Doohan Replica Shoei
that you bought.....right place,right opportunity. (Thats an inside joke)
 
KLEINDORF said:
Steve G: Good insightful reply with the Lower Mainland overview. I always assumed Canadians
after the introduction of the national sales tax (7%) really went into frugal mode. Regarding sand
cast and KO 750 Hondas sometimes hard to see values as my 1975 Rickman CR 750 K0 RC ENG.
built 836 motor etc etc and very rare does not elicit much interest or comparable valuation. Those
Mecum Kawasakis surprised everybody. No wonder 20 years ago Brits were buying Jap junk and
filling containers,shipping them back to the UK and making profits from the Vancouver area as the
bikes were so cheap and unwanted. Reminds me of your super cheap Mick Doohan Replica Shoei
that you bought.....right place,right opportunity. (Thats an inside joke)
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Your Rickman CR750 is extremely highly regarded , to those who really know the broad spectrum of classic bikes. There are actually very few in the general population of motorcycling. Also, there are actually, IMO not many who place super high regard of a CR750, AND a Dunstall Norton, at the same time, for example. Many classic bike enthusiasts are comfortably nestled into one camp of enthusiasm. A CR750 has a very small group of enthusiasts mainly because it is very rare, with resultant resale values.
indeed I remember more than a few Fellows from England hovering about swap meets and old “Buy and Sell” classified ads buying up anything that rolled for good money , 20 years ago. Heck, I remember owning 3 Suzuki “water buffalos” ( kettles) which I was going to restore, but had gotten outright miserable attitude at the parts desk of ‘legendary’ Suzuki dealer, Murray ,,,who thought I was a ####ing idiot for even considering restoring them, 2 of them ‘72 Kettles. I vowed never to own any Suzuki ever again, and the Englishman with the huge fat wallet paying me crazy money at the time for them sealed this pledge to myself.

Your comments on my Mick Doohan replica is kind of creeping me out, like,,,you know me, but I don’t know you creepy!
 
Steve: You do know me from Cafe Calabria nights but that was before I moved away from
Vancouver about six years ago. It was you who mentioned the helmet deal when a certain
high profile Surrey dealer was liquidating. I usually showed up on my Guzzi V7 Sport or
Hailwood Rep or 82 Jota. Hope this eases your mind about the anonymity thing.
 
KLEINDORF said:
Steve: You do know me from Cafe Calabria nights but that was before I moved away from
Vancouver about six years ago. It was you who mentioned the helmet deal when a certain
high profile Surrey dealer was liquidating. I usually showed up on my Guzzi V7 Sport or
Hailwood Rep or 82 Jota. Hope this eases your mind about the anonymity thing.
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Darwin? Penticton right?
 
Steve: Its Greg who Robert Smith can refresh you. Anyway,as long as the creepy factor is eradicated I
guess we're good. I understand Geo. Dockray has passed recently. I'm also guessing the Fathers Day
Italian Car/Bike show is long defunct....maybe even Cafe Calabria ?
 
Greg!! Of course!! How’s it going??
Have to ask, you remember those great times every Thursday night at Imperial MC? Ted and Gord and the gang?

Yes, sadly George passed away late last year. I was extremely lucky to chat with him at the Italian bike gathering at Nicola’s Moto Mechanica in South Burnaby, for over an hour. He actually passed away a week later, really sad. Great dude, and a mechanical genius. The Cafe Calabria monthly gathering , that was his brainchild, had been stopped during the “lockdown” when they shut down all cafes, etc. then the city buggered up Commercial Drive by putting a bicycle only lane where the bikes/cars were parked. It never returned after that. As far as the Fathers Day Italian vehicle gathering in North Vancouver, it initially was going to happen last year but city of North Van decided that gasoline powered vehicles parked in the park was not part of their new WOKE agenda, so is now cancelled.
Todd’s swap meet is back again,,but not at Cloverdale anymore , but at Abbotsford agrec building.
 
some parts arrived from the UK, got notice to day of the new injections stuff coming from Italy just clearing Canadian customs so should be here soon. As usual stuff from the USA is taking forever, much longer than to get stuff from overseas, bloody hell.....

have started with fuel injection re assembly, very primitive fuel injection. Has a mechanical Rube Goldberg sort of cable operated "fast idle" mechanism operated by a lever on the handle bar. I totally dis assembled everything, multiple passes through the ultrasonic, and am now mechanically synchronizing everything using the adjustments in the linkages. I am using all new stainless steel fasteners. Was interesting re assembling and adjusting the fast idle mechanism....... ;) :eek::rolleyes:

I found a local car tuning shop with the proper ultrasonic injector cleaning equipment, took both injectors in. One injector was half plugged, the other wasn't great either. They put the injectors in an ultrasonic cleaning bath and "pulse" the injectors through various rpm ranges. Apparently took three hours pulsing in the ultrasonic to get the pair back to proper and equal operation. $25 per injector, thought it was money well spent, especially as I could not find new injectors to buy..

I am now again stalled on the fuel injection re assembly waiting for the custom machined parts from the USA for the left side injector housing body.

The ECU for this bike has been "chipped", and I am running the Marvic X pipe crossover and open mufflers I got from HelicopterJim. Not sure how much adjustment is available other than basic mechanical synchronization of the injector body butterfly's, need to go through the Weber Magnetti Marelli injection manual soon.
 

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Hi Paul

As far as I know the "Creedon Chip" is meant for that crossover and de-restricted pipes so hopefully it won't need much more than Throttle Body synchronization. It has been a while since I looked up the info on the COG site but as best as I remember it was not meant for the stock exhaust system. If I remember correctly it works well with that crossover and pipes as well as the full Termignoni system (very rare now) and also the full Staintune system.

Good show on getting the injectors cleaned. It will be fun to hear how this project turns out! You can go smoke Francesco on his Daytona!

Jim
 
Hi Jim

I like the look of the Jefferies ECU, bit likely a step too far for now, I need to get the bike to its first start up and make sure it actually runs first....... :ROFLMAO:

the rest of the fuel injection parts and sensors arrived today, so going to see if I can get to trial start up stage by end of the coming weekend
 
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