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

Jugs_S said:
Maurice
Who is the new owner in Sydney. Wondering if its a Laverda NSW member
Jugs
Sec Club Laverda NSW

That will put 4 of 6 120 Jotas in Sydney
Me
Marty
Mark
And yours moving to Sydney
1 in WA
1 in Canbera
Iherd a roumor another had been inported to make 7 in Aust but have not been able to confirm it
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we have #8467 here at Redax ex Serbia, frame is a total mess as is the rest of the bike so the engine is destined to be built in to one of our Spaceframes, one day when I get the time
have only 5 x 120 Jota's listed on the register, don't know about the ACT bike, have 2 in NSW, Maurice's bike and Mal's in WA

 
There is definately another 120 Jota in Canberra sold new there to the original owner Batto knows of this bike so apart from your wreck there is 6 that I know of at this stage, and to confirm all rumours yes I have another coming from the UK will confirm the number upon arrival !
 
mauricejota7604 said:
There is definately another 120 Jota in Canberra sold new there to the original owner Batto knows of this bike so apart from your wreck there is 6 that I know of at this stage, and to confirm all rumours yes I have another coming from the UK will confirm the number upon arrival !
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So how many is that now, Mo?
 
LJ said:
Went on a local club run over Exmoor and north Devon coast on Sunday on the GT ,won highly commended too along with Petes T3,second only to this lovely Beemer, great day out.
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Was there too, but on my commando. Had a great day out and a good chat to another guy out on his Jota. Really must get mine back out on the road soon  :-[ Well done on your award  :D
 
Cheers JC, that'll be Alan with his Jota.Btw have a monthly lunchtime 12-1pm ish meet at Driftwood Cafe , Blue Anchor Bay 3rd Sunday in the month (next Sunday) Come along if yore free .

Shaun
 
Went for a ride to see how the harvest is going.
No Laverda Harvesters around here............

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so the crushing season has begun ay Peter.  i recall the goal was to finish the crushing before the wet season hit.
i do miss the 'Burdekin snow'.  but i'm guessing they don't burn as much these days?
  cheers
 
Heart in mouth time for me today x 2.

Number 1 was taking a power drill to the stud hole for the number 3 cam block stud which had stripped. Block is fitted with a dowel so unable to use a time sert. Drilled it a couple of mm deeper so as to get the tang off the helicoil, blew out the swarf, ran a taper tap in then a bottoming tap, blew it out again and wound in the helicoil coated in threadlock, snapped off tang and blew it out with the comp air. Stud in with threadlock, cams in and all tensioned up as sweet as. Had those F1 cams in and out more times than a gigolo in a brothel. Hopefully the last time for a long time now that the new buckets are in.

Number 2 was taking a cutting disc to Boba's lovely carbon tank that I had so carefully painted. The rear seam was too long and rubbing on the front of the seat and had already torn a small hole in Tony Eldorado's very expensive work. Appears to have no leaks so and contact with the seat is greatly reduced. If it does develop a leak I will hit it with some Caswells.

Next weekend - ride the bloody thing at last and see what else can go wrong.

 
Shajota said:
Went for a ride to see how the harvest is going.
No Laverda Harvesters around here............

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Glad to see it wasn't a Case or a John Deere ! - I get a lot of stick for stopping on our bike trips to watch a combine - its a bit like my interest in Laverdas - always good to see one running 
 
Went for a ride with Vince out to grey gums on the putty the last 20k's there were a bit sedate as we were following a HWP.
On the way back was better so nearly ready for the fairing off and change the oil, fit the new headers etc...and no Drikko no tree ferns today  so very sorry but did find an SS that had the early black shaved calipers with no Brembo on them.
 

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Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond said:
Glad to see it wasn't a Case or a John Deere ! - I get a lot of stick for stopping on our bike trips to watch a combine - its a bit like my interest in Laverdas - always good to see one running
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Well actually Sir Sid, Austoft was bought out by Case IH a number of years ago. :-X Real shame actually as they were a pioneer in the mechanical sugar harvesting field and for many years built the harvesters in Bundaberg. Once Brazil expanded and became mechanised they outpaced Australia by a long way in production and the focus shifted to there in many ways.

Mark - still burn here but I would guess now less than 30%. Burdekin still an area that does a lot of burning but not sure how much these days. Still need to burn the bigger cane in particular.
 
Took POP out for a spin this morning to check if the bigger pilots jets in the Mikunis improved initial pull off idle.
It used to cough and fart with the 17.5s in place. Cracking open the choke helped smooth the transition.
So last weekend I fitted 20s but didn't get a chance to test it until this morning.
Anyway, it now carburates perfectly. What a transformation. Can't wait now to run it in and give it the berries.
Now the weather has calmed down a bit it's becoming great biking weather again.

Oh, and the bar end mirrors work very well, no blurring and adequate rear vision.

 
Rode it over to mates shed to watch the footy, not a good result, left at 3/4 time to avoid riding into the sun. Gave the boys a earful on my departure red lining the first 3 gears then into a long up hill l/h sweeper pulling hard in 4th snicking it into 5th at about 180 then power on still for a r/h sweeper before barreling off some as you come face to face with a late sun.
Cruised to rest of the way at steady 110-130 kays. Didn't see another car the whole way home 30kays!! The Motodd was running perfect, A cracking ride

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Rob, looks good.
How about some pics of your house project? Interested to know how it's going.
 
Paddy said:
Hey Brett
What are the fairings on those two lavs ? Indulge a learner :)
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first one looks like a Ducati 900SS fairing, second (full-fairing) is a "Cico" fairing, probably made by either Stucci or Motoplast. Seat unit - if original Cico - would be a Stucci.
 
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