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

I use a thick paint and a very fine brush, wipe excess off immediately with a cotton bud, and then sort of polish the remainder off with a fresh cotton bud once it starts to set.
Any excess after that can be wiped off with solvent as you say.
 
Re-assembled the 1000 SFC.
Everything works now! :)
All the lights, warning lights (well, except the red one, which isn't connected to anything)
Looking forward to a ride when I get home from Italy.

If all OK, I will have another go at the RGS carburetion....

After that, the Jota, then the 1200

 
Early in the morning I went to my job riding my SFC 1000 as usually. After that I washed the bike, a littlebit later lubricated the chain, waxed it with Simoniz wax, then a littlebit polished the engine side corvers, changed smaller jets to the carbs and made a little test ride. I just get back home. And now it is the evening.
 
Fitted the new seat cover to the little Laverda.  Quite happy with the result - I had the easy bit to do  :)
 

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Made a new gearlever and footrest, fitted an old CEV tail light and cleaned the rust out of the fuel tank this week in between a pile of other paying stuff
Got out for a 100 mile hoon on the 3c this evening, managed to dodge most of the showers. Took it away down one of my favorite roads to swing a few bends and attend to the chicken strips on the tyres, it does gets a bit wayward on the 35mm forks when pressing on a bit and using the brakes hard  :o but ridden smooth and within it's limits its a bloody delight, old fashioned fast and actually quite nice to ride something that gets a bit squirly when pressed, sort of keeps me in check as modern fast is very fast indeed..... I can go as hard as I like at the bends on my BMW and it just shrugs it all off with well mannered efficiency, I enjoy riding my BM and the Laverda hot rods I build a lot but I will be keeping my 3c stock as a rock on a stock rock day and enjoying the lovely old thing for just what it is, a lovely old thing  :)

  Keith

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Finally managed to get the funds for new tyres for the Fatlas.
I wanted a traditional look for the tyres and managed to find some TT100s.
Parcel arrived today.
Fitted the tyres and currently fitting them to the bike.
I think they look handsome.







 
Decided to stretch my feeble fabrication abilities to the limits and make a stand for the 75cc engines :eek:

My welding was as poor as usual, but lots of grinding helped remove the worst of it, and a couple of coats of Hammerite should hide the evidence completely (and double the strength of the welds :D ).

Just need to get the internals sorted now ::) ::)
 
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just happened to make an engine stand yesterday as well
Mark came over and we whipped up an engine waiting room so to speak, freed up much needed bench space

 
I got Boba to make one for the one I'm doing.
Every Motodd I have seen has had the original alloy tank welded to death.
 
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