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

Repaired cracked LH side cover on 6522.
Took RH side cover off because one of the tiny pins on the Jota badge had broken and discovered the regulator hanging loose. Made a new sturdy bracket for it.
Forgot to buy double sided adhesive tape to fix the badge.
While I was out and about I discovered that Repco stores are having a promo for Penrite motorcycle oils and for the first time ever MC 4ST 15-50 mineral oil is in plentiful supply, so I bought myself 20 litres of it.

pete
 
Take care reading the container of that Penrite, hard to believe but the make that oil in mineral  ,semi synthetic and full synthetic. Got my attention when I was running my engine in. Made sure it was Mineral for the first few thousand ks but its easy to miss this .
 
Took the SF1 I've rebuilt the motor on and have been made temp caretaker of up to my sister's in the hills 80km east of Melbourne. On the way back a slightly aggressive Stirling Moss type in a big SUV seemed keen to show me how fast his car was off the lights. Next set we stopped at I decided to show him how quick a good moto is and gave the SF full gas ... but this bloody thing was neck and neck until the two lanes turned to one and I was at redline in 2nd gear. I'm now somewhat in shock ... how can a lumping SUV called a Ford Territory (I think it's an Explorer in the US) with a Ghia badge and big 18 or 19 inch mags go that fast??? Only other thing it had was a pretty stock looking twin tailpipe. Have cars got that much quicker since I rode regularly 15 years ago?  :-\ :-\ :-\  I'm thinking he must have known something or he wouldn't be out bating motos. But I bet he doesn't bother dragging with modern 600cc+ sportsbikes.

This is no tired SF - fully rebuilt motor, run in, crisp, quick and revs like a demon. Had a similar experience when I first got it on the road and was a bit more ginger with the revs - a huge Nissan 4wd did something similar - had a chat at the next lights and that guy told me he had a huge turboed Ford V8 in it, so it made sense - it was a toy. But a Ford Territory??? Would someone bother to put a huge donk in one of them or are Laverda twins now so slow they can't out-accelerate a modern oversized SUV?!

Sorry Ron, looks like the old Breganzie is actually a slug even in the league of the four-wheel world these days  ??? ??? ???
 
Compared to the HQ 192 red motor ute I had when I was a kid, everybody has a turbo this or a 16valve that. Way better cars,same old brains driving them
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
...Have cars got that much quicker since I rode regularly 15 years ago?  :-\ :-\ :-\  I'm thinking he must have known something or he wouldn't be out bating motos. But I bet he doesn't bother dragging with modern 600cc+ sportsbikes....
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Hard to say, there's all sorts of things could be done to that motor to make it quick?
Talking of CBR600's, two years ago when I still had a 7.6 litre Cobra that was quite nippy (stroked side oiler with ED heads 'and stuff'), I chased and passed a briskly ridden CBR600 down a local twisty that I know; the rider was a nice guy we stopped later and had a chat and a laugh. We did a few traffic lights after and the cobra got it every time; much harder to get a quick sports bike to hook up well without wheelying, and we all know the first few seconds/yards are everything in a 'drag' ..

But yes, generally, a well thrashed modern 2.0 litre motor could eat a vintage 750; that's what I find on my 750 Commando anyway!  :-[  :-[  :D
 
Fitted the VFR800 TEK MP06 coils to the plate (2nd year metalwork at Breganze High? :D) and sorted out the wires, just waiting for the HT lead to arrive.  Adjusted the pump on the Miks to come in a little earlier.
 
made a bracket to create a new front mounting point for the RHS side cover that gives clearance from the DNA filter pod.

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pete
 
About 15 minutes ago I just siliconed a 15mm nilon spacer,like a stack of washers  to the back of my sidecovers for the same reason.
 
Or you could do what I did (wouldn't recommend it) and move all the mounting lugs as far back as they will go.
Still had to trim the slightest amount off the front of the sidepanel.
Plus I turned the oval pods through 90? to minimise contact with the sidepanels.

 
thanks for the ideas, what I did involves negligible expenditure, no irreversible changes and keeps the original side cover with its 36 years of patina.

anyway, i went for late arvo / twilight ride...a couple hundred km's loop north / north east of Perth. I ran over a stumpy tailed lizard and head butted a bird that was slow to get out of the way but otherwise was incident free. 

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past some burning off of pine plantation trash. Lots of smoke, but I was upwind.

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if there's ever any doubt that some bikes look better in photos than "live", 6522 is proof. its nowhere near as shiny as the pictures would have you believe.

pete
 
Finished fitting the 'new' coils.  Fired it up and like Terry D found that the tacho is more responsive and now shows 1500rpm at idle rather than 3000.  Clutch rattle much reduced too.  Who'd 'ave thought it?
 
My Corsa (with standard ignition) constantly reads low by around 1000 or 2000 rpm (from memory).
Steady as a rock, just low.
 
Mine only really reads steady in top gear for some reason- brand new clocks too.  Probably fairly accurate as 4000 equalled 70mph IIRC- which was fine (it bounced around all over in other gears), but the 3000rpm thing at idle irritated me, so I'm happy to have improved that glitch.  Keith has a gizmo from Witt for me which I will fit at some stage, but it may be that the new coil means I don't have to.  Have to road test it and see.

Twenty quid well spent anyhow. :D
 
Been doing stuff to the 750.
Removed forks so the stanchions can be rechromed (now on their way to Philpots).
Top yoke stripped and sanded and ready for painting, bottom yoke tomorrow.
Also fork sliders will be cleaned, sanded and repainted.
Fitted a spare set of 38mm Cerianis and yokes (and GSXR wheel) in the meantime.
Removed and dismantled the Ceriani shocks. Chrome parts are off being redone. Bodies have been stripped to fit new seals and repaint them.
Replacement seat arrived today. I decided whichever style seat became available first (SF or GT) would indicate which tank style I used. Can't fit a GT tank and SF seat without leaving a gap or meaning major seat surgery.
So I dusted off the SF tank and fitted a pair of original steel sidepanels.

By the time the stanchions come back I hope to have most of the above completed.
Just not sure what colour to paint it. The red tank seems to have been dark blue originally as I sanded a corner down to check.
I've narrowed the new colour down to black, gold, red or blue. I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.


 
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