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

very nice indeed,though it"s an MOT  failure in UK ,needs rear indicators even with the retro Beemer double sided ones.as i found out on the GT,we just put my gloves over them and said it didn t have any :D
 
Surprised no ones gone for this yet,

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Laverda-1200T-1981-/252381776241?hash=item3ac3204971:g:TRoAAOSw3mpXLf-d
 
LJ said:
very nice indeed,though it"s an MOT  failure in UK ,needs rear indicators even with the retro Beemer double sided ones.as i found out on the GT,we just put my gloves over them and said it didn t have any :D
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Vehicles first registered after 1984 require complimentary rear indicators if bar-end items are fitted.  Same as 2nd. mirror and other BS...

Indicators mandatory in Germany for ALL vehicles after 1961.

piet
 
no need for indicators if it wasn t manufactured with them,bit like old cars and no seat belts, failure on bar ends only as elbows /arms block visibility.which is understandable, One gets me is no need for front brake light pre April 86.
 
Well this is more of a "what I didn't do to my Laverda"  I admit to getting to a point with Jenny where I'd just had enough for a while, Trying to save enough money to pay to get the engine done and failing. For the last four or five years virtually every spare penny I've had has gone on the bike. Although it looked fairly together last summer the reality was that there was a fair bit I wasn't happy with so I broke it down, put it all in a corner and left it there. In the mean time I bought a ZRX 1100 and got back to just enjoying riding motorcycles again, best decision I've made in a while, not only am I loving riding again it's reawakened my desire to start working on Jenny again. So, it's time to rebuild(again) put right the little things that aren't right and focus on gettin it finished the way I want it and not get it finished as quick as possible, so probably another year or so!!

FFF
 
Spent an enjoyable afternoon starting to make an inlet manifold for the (going to be ) tuned 75 engine.  I remember Eglibob had a Dellorto UA carb on his lovely 100 - I've bought a 19mm UA so I needed to make a new manifold up from scratch.

Base of manifold is 5mm alloy plate - I cut it to size today by drawing round the old one and filing like buggery all afternoon...CAD stands for Chris And a Dremel in my world  :(

Next step is to get a grown up to turn down the inlet tube to the right size, then another adult to weld it up.

Overall, an utterly pointless waste of time, but hugely satisfying.

Chris
 
In the words of Padlock - *uckity *uckity *uck

got back from hols expecting a letter from DVLA to say - yes well done for bringing a bike back to where it started - but no my request rejected for not supplying a document registering the bike in Spain - which i did - Grant had given me the Spanish registration document  - god knows what they want possibly  >:(

So i will need to get on the phone to them - sent them a letter as well with all the enclosures listed  bah jobsworth clearly 
 
sfcpiet said:
Not actually mine, but more or less my baby.  Built for a OCT customer to his spec.  I wasn't too worried about originality as the basis was a clapped out bodged wreck, completely and utterly fucked by various DPOs.
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http://s56.photobucket.com/user/sfcpiet/media/Fuchs%20cafe%20racer/DSCN6922.jpg.html?sort=3&o=4

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http://s56.photobucket.com/user/sfcpiet/media/Fuchs%20cafe%20racer/DSCN6923.jpg.html?sort=3&o=3

Quite pleased with the result, real sweet runner with loads of grunt.

piet
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Beautiful. I'd love a 3C looking like that.  8)
 
Went to the Quail motorcycle event in Carmel Valley California today and entered the Jota in the super bike class. Things were looking pretty good as most of other bikes were Hondas and there was a tatty looking Kawasaki GPZ like Wayne Rainey replica so I actually thought I was in with a shout of winning my class, especially as there were no other Laverdas at the event. How wrong was I ? The tatty looking Kwaka was the actual bike that Wayne Rainey won the 1983 World Superbike Championship on. He declares it to be his favorite ever bike. SO it not only won the class but the entire frigging show. I didn't win a thing.. Bollocks !!!!!  To add insult to injury, a clearly well informed Englishman quizzed me about my restoration and asked me if I had used The Green book as my guide. I confessed that I was more of read the instructions after I have f**ked something up kind of a guy and had instead relied on advice from this forum, on old Jota manual and intuition. I asked him if he recommended the book and he explained patiently that he was the author of it. Non other than Tim Parker himself. Very pleasant guy he was too.
 
rowdypat said:
Beautiful. I'd love a 3C looking like that.  8)
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Is it a 3C? I'm confused, wheels look like 3C but the frame and bodywork look more like a 1200 (apart from the side cover badges), can't tell much from the motor either.

But it does look good!

Cheers,

bazzee
 
bazzee said:
Is it a 3C? I'm confused, wheels look like 3C but the frame and bodywork look more like a 1200 (apart from the side cover badges), can't tell much from the motor either.

But it does look good!

Cheers,

bazzee
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The bike started life as a 1975 3C.  Just about every component was changed/replaced, including the frame, before it was dumped on our doorstep.  It was a tired, worn out bodged heap of a bike, looking like it had been thrown together by an 8-year old.

Partly de-lugged later style 1200/3CL frame, Ceriani forks, stainless discs, YSS shocks, 1200 tank and side panels, reworked 750 humped seat, custom mudguards (front made from a rust-pitted painted TS item), 2.75/3.5" rims, rear brake that is basically cosmetic (I told the owner to expect that, first spec included a rear disc, which I could have made to work properly with the rear-sets), custom wiring loom and lots of hand-made odds and sods to get it all together decently.  Engine has 78mm Assos, C4 cams with RGS valves.  Stainless Keihan exhaust system that required a LOT of tweaking before it fitted properly.  Took almost 3 years on and off to finish, customer spec kept being changed...

Personally, quite satisfied, just don't like the boring colour scheme, could do with something more spectacular/adventurous.

piet
 
sfcpiet said:
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Personally, quite satisfied, just don't like the boring colour scheme, could do with something more spectacular/adventurous.

piet
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Some nice flames airbrushed onto the tank sides would surely brighten things up here... :D

Nice bike, Piet, given it is a bitsa, it looks rather 'right' to me(apart from the colour).

Looks like the stainless discs being the same ones I have on my 3C, what pads do you prefer with these discs, Piet?
Not that I'd be unsatisfied with the TRW organics I'm using ATM, but there might be better choices available.

Regards,
Stefan
 
Thanks Stefan.

One aim was to achieve as close to a factory look as possible, with a couple of custom touches.  But the customer didn't want a factory-fresh bike either, for this reason, finish of the engine castings was left as-is, only given a thorough clean and covers NOT polished to mirror finish.

Quite happy with the TRW MCB019RQ with the stainless discs, no ABE for Germany though. :D

Think flames would be a bit brash... :D

piet
 
Checked the valves.  Couple of inlets a bit tight, couple of exhausts a bit loose, but I think OK for now.  Do NOT want to do the shims. 
 
Reggie3cl said:
Checked the valves.  Couple of inlets a bit tight, couple of exhausts a bit loose, but I think OK for now.  Do NOT want to do the shims.
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This shimming the valves malarkey is turning in to be a bit of a phobia for you Reggie.
When you say the inlet clearance is "tight" what is the actual clearance? Perhaps someone can advise what's the absolute minimum, the factory will have built in a bit of a safety factor. I think Red stated that he sets up his engines on clearances tighter than factory figures (sorry Red if its wasn't you) but I think going under 0.15mm on those inlets might get you in trouble, burn the valves and it's definitely a head off job! Now that would be a colourful conversation with Mr Nairn  :o

Just get on with it, I mean what can possibly go wrong? >:D

Good luck,

Ian

 
Checked with Keith- don't want to bugger up any of his good work.  He seems OK with those clearances for now, but wants to see the bike at some stage- impossible at the present time with work.  The exhausts are a bit loose, which is OK, but two of the inlets have tightened up to somewhere between 6 and 7 thou (as in go/nogo) so maybe about 0.165mm. 

Keith pointed out that the shims come in 0.05mm increments (I think that's what he said ::)), so that can be considered the factory tolerance

I used to do the 180's valves, but I really really hated the job.  Measure, simple calculation, fit appropriate new shim, reassemble, check, AAAAAARGHHHHH!!! FEK, FEKITY FEK, WHY IS IT WRONG???? is basically how it used to go.  Quite happy to do the sensible tappets on the GS though...
 
Good news Reggie that you can keep the RGS running. Getting the info from Keith keeps those valve clearance demons in your own head under control. I'm sure you'll be checking the valve clearances at every oil change now until Keith gives it a good going over.

Ian
 
You're supposed to change the oil???

Anyway- no hurry, don't fancy riding the bike with that blown rear shock, the saucy new Falcons should be another couple of weeks.
 
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