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

New Ikon shocks and Ikon fork springs for the old girl. BIG difference  :D

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Trying frantically to finish my Alpino prior to shifting now with no work bench and limited tools.
Anyway all I need is the tank side covers and front guard supports and at least I can ride her out.
I have started her up on the original ignition prior to a modern one being fitted.
It reminded me of my 81 Jota and the special starting techniques required to get the engine to run particularly when hot when it had the original ignition, just as you let your finger off the starter button at exactly the right time there is just a bit more spark through to the plugs and not the starter to fire.
Sometimes we forget how good some of these ignition improvements are.
Oh the Alpino is a black bike with gold pin lines ignore the orange ducktail, she was pulled to pieces after being involved in an accident in the early 1990s and of course became an unfinished project as a lot do
 

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sounds like you need bodywork,but perhaps you mean to finish your own ones if not tank here,

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LAVERDA-Alpino-350-500-FUEL-PETROL-TANK-/121903119951?hash=item1c61fdfe4f:g:W1EAAOSwSHZWfDAx
 
GregT said:
Does it actually need to be a magnet ? I'm asking cos I've used hall effect sensors on several motors with plain mild steel triggering pieces.
One in particular used an alloy center piece with a 3mm thick short strip of MS screwed to the outside.

To test if it has to be a magnet, simply touch a non magnetised screwdriver to the sensor, it should in my experience anyway, spark at the plug when the screwdriver is pulled away.
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Seems you have inductive pickups Greg, not Hall effect.

Inductive pickups behave exactly as you describe.

Hall effect triggers are a wee little semiconductor gadgets that need a passing magnetic field to switch them on or off. So the rotor has to have magnets.
 
Well today I dragged some of the straggler 3C's and the Alpino out of the shed ready to move to their new temporary home.
I had to reassure the red Orphan 3C that she wasn't going back to the orphanage.
Next to force out those 2 Jota's
 

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Nothing done on the bike today. BUT, just got back from clearing a tree on Gorge Road, a cyclist ran into the back of the parked fire truck and then it was on. We got blamed for stopping around a corner (hard not to with a tree across the road). Nearly got hit by a cyclist speeding past the scene while I was putting cones around the tree and nearly had a punch up after venting my spleen about the metre and a half rule works both ways. One charmer said he was going to get me sacked and wanted to have a go until I said 'bring it on'. The crew leader told the bloke that I had just got from spending most of the night in the emergency department because of a medical issue and to lay off, the dick's parting comment is that he hopes my wife dies of cancer, shows the calibre of the bloke, plus the general abuse from the rest of the riders really shows what sort of dickheads they are. Cyclists are not the most popular people in the Adelaide Hills.
 
I have no idea how you and the Sydney version, Brett do it.I have 2 and haven't ridden the Pantah since I dont know when,keep that up and the carbs will,well you know.Do you blokes have a lazy susan in your garage to swop them around on.
 
Made the mistake of attempting to pass The Peloton last year on a Sunday ride down the hill from The Pie in The Sky on The Old Rd.
There is a reasonably long down hill straight 2 corners into the descent. Out I go accelerating to maybe 100 expecting to get past the 15 or so riders. By the time I am past about half they have also accelerated to maybe 80k and we are fast approaching a blind 35k bend with me on the wrong side of the road.I have no time to do much except brake hard and pull into this tight bunch of pushbikes picking any gap I can find. There blokes basically had me hung out to dry, I had expected to breeze past easy in this straight. First and last time I will try doing that on a down hill. They ride harder than me.Racing for sheep stations on a training ride
 
Terry Dymond said:
Nothing done on the bike today. BUT, just got back from clearing a tree on Gorge Road, a cyclist ran into the back of the parked fire truck and then it was on. We got blamed for stopping around a corner (hard not to with a tree across the road). Nearly got hit by a cyclist speeding past the scene while I was putting cones around the tree and nearly had a punch up after venting my spleen about the metre and a half rule works both ways. One charmer said he was going to get me sacked and wanted to have a go until I said 'bring it on'. The crew leader told the bloke that I had just got from spending most of the night in the emergency department because of a medical issue and to lay off, the dick's parting comment is that he hopes my wife dies of cancer, shows the calibre of the bloke, plus the general abuse from the rest of the riders really shows what sort of dickheads they are. Cyclists are not the most popular people in the Adelaide Hills.
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That is the pits, Terry - you had every right to run the fucker off the road after a comment like that..

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Vince said:
Made the mistake of attempting to pass The Peloton last year on a Sunday ride down the hill from The Pie in The Sky on The Old Rd.
There is a reasonably long down hill straight 2 corners into the descent. Out I go accelerating to maybe 100 expecting to get past the 15 or so riders. By the time I am past about half they have also accelerated to maybe 80k and we are fast approaching a blind 35k bend with me on the wrong side of the road.I have no time to do much except brake hard and pull into this tight bunch of pushbikes picking any gap I can find. There blokes basically had me hung out to dry, I had expected to breeze past easy in this straight. First and last time I will try doing that on a down hill. They ride harder than me.Racing for sheep stations on a training ride
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That's the funniest shit you have ever written Vince

 
And I wasn't on a Harley like the old joke, I did come 3rd. I couldn't get past 2 of them. Told a few about this and it seems I am not alone. I wont be messing with them in mass again thats for sure.
 
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