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

I watched that Henry Cole travelogue of Scotland and quite enjoyed it.  Beautiful scenery that brought back a few memories of my last visit - did some of the same roads. I must get back there some time soonish.
Henry himself was a bit bland, and clearly doesn't know much about boats - referring to an inboard diesel engine as an "outboard motor". But he wasn't as annoying as I'd been let to expect from some of the comments on here.
 
I dont mind his programmes Cam and I quite like his grumpiness but he can be a bit boring sometimes. You tend to see things you wouldn't be shown in other travel programmes. Russia was much bleaker than I expected!
 
Found time to get  into the shed today, in fact spent too much time according to her indoors. Oh well.

Pulled the cams and cam buckets and replaced the buckets with flash new ones from Red. All going well until tensioning the nuts holding down the cam blocks. All clicked nicely at 15ft/lb on the Teng, 11 out of 12 clicked happily at 17ft/lb leaving the 8mm stud on the right inlet block to decide it just wanted to spin. Oh well, they need to come off as a few shims need changing.

Also sorted out my self induced gear selection problems  (banghead)
 
A bit more done.
Front brake hooked up, carbs stripped, cleaned and rebuilt with new brassware.
Not decided on style of seat.
Neither is correct for this style of tank, but easy to adapt.
Anyone got any preferences?



 
It's an SF frame with a GT tank.



I got an SF tank but it doesn't suit it, but if I did fit an SF tank I would be able to drop in an SF seat with no changes.




A GT seat wouldn't fit as the SF frame prongs for the seat are out of position.
An SF seat with a GT tank would leave a couple of inches gap between tank and seat.

Easiest solution is to decide which seat I like/is available and then modify frame prongs accordingly.
Currently trying to source a decent seat at reasonable cost.
This is not a high budget project.
Many parts on it have been mended, welded, bashed straight and repainted/chromed/polished.
 
helped a good old mate (LaverdaIan) with his good old Monty racer.    8)
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see dyno topic;
http://www.laverdaforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,91923.msg332760.html#msg332760
 
Finaly got the rego plate for Bjorn rebuilt 1981 Jots took it down to the club meeting for decent test run and to find top gear. Really pleased with this engine pullls strong and the best ideling bike Ive set up. Thought it has big bore collector and exhausts, the headers were the original smaller ones. Im now wondering if this has made the idle so steady.

51km on the clock so its on the trailor and back to the owner

Jugs
 
My left hand is still too weak to comfortably operate the Laverda clutch, so I moved the Jota out of the way so I could roll the Guzzi and dust it off and give it a new battery for a ride tomorrow (the Goose had a much lighter clutch). When I say "dust it off", I don't mean that figuratively. All of my bikes are covered with a thick layer of dust from me doing a lot of grinding and welding lately. I need a workshop separate from the bike storage area, or maybe the forethought to put covers on the bikes before I start doing dust-generating work.
 
Today I washed some road grime off the Aussie drummer and painted in her frame number I cant wait to do a long distance haul on her!!!!
 

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Refitted the 1000 SFC centre stand with new bushes and bolts, which has cured the instability when parked on the centre stand.
Took the bike into Cologne, to buy a new helmet.
It is not really happy in cities, but coped OK.
The new helmet is really tasteful. It looks as if someone drank a glass of orange paint, then threw up over it.
Should match the Jota  :D :D
 
Supervising my Jota being used for roadtests, flypasts and statics in front of the camera in readiness for a 6-page restoration article for 'Practical Sportsbikes' mag.
Look out for the October issue (due mid-September)  :D
 
took the 3C for a run today, what a cracking day weather wise you would never know its winter.  :D
When got home dropped the oil out of it ready for some fresh stuff

 

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