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

My track season with the race bike ended yesterday when I found that in no way would I find batteries capable of starting the bike and lasting a whole track session and small enough to fit in the very small compartement in the back of the seat unit.
As bought, the bike had no starter and all was fine apart from the fact that push starting a TT2 is not easy and no job for a soon to be old age pensionner!
So I put a starter on it. It starts fine only after that, ignition problems rapidly set in due to disappearing volts in the battery.
I thought that by starting and warming up the bike on the car battery, the problem would disappear. It doesn't.
So I thought that with three batteries, I could swap batteries berween track sessions and always have a fully charged battery to hand. A lead battery that fits in the seat has a maximum of 5AH, not enough. I paid 250 ? for a small Lithium job which just doesn't last long enough.
I was booked in for a track weekend in two weeks and am now unbooked.
I've ordered a complete 500 alternator. I doubt the extra weight on the bike or the crank will influence my lap times.  ;)

I'll need a regulator/rectifier. Am thinking of sourcing that with Electrex. Anybody have a reference for one?

Paul
 
  As bought, the bike had no starter and all was fine apart from the fact that push starting a TT2 is not easy and no job for a soon to be old age pensionner!
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I'm feeling a bit guilty now Paul - I'll give you a full refund if you want to give it back  :D :D - Regards - Phil
 
Hi Paul,
Sorry to hear things not working out.
Maybe I've said this before?
I've run a Motobat MB5U (7amp) total loss with out any problems,starting the bike via remote rollers to rear wheel.
If you wish to use starter motor,than use jump leads from a stand alone battery to starter motor,for starting engine.

Andy
 
Hi Andy,

Yes, we did exchange a few words on the subject.
There is no room apart from the rear of the seat to put a battery on that bike and when I bought it, the battery was on the side of the bike on a crafted plywood base  :D, out of view inside the fairing lower.

A: I've taken the fairing lower off, for aesthetic reasons mainly but of course also better access to engine.

B: I'm on my own so need to be totally autonomous. I do have a set of rollers that need puting under a cars driving wheels, but you need to be two for that.
I could have invested or found somebody to make self driven rollers but have chosen to put an alternator back on.
No big deal and I've been waiting for so long to get that bike sorted that another year doesn't seem too long.

Best regards
Paul
 
Paul Marx said:
I do have a set of rollers that need puting under a cars driving wheels, but you need to be two for that.
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You also need to be crazy. You'd probably get chucked off the course for using one of them in Australia. They've been banned for years. Don't ever try it with a car that has a LSD or traction control  :o
 
Dellortoman said:
You also need to be crazy. You'd probably get chucked off the course for using one of them in Australia. They've been banned for years. Don't ever try it with a car that has a LSD or traction control  :o
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There was one in use at Barbagallo last I was there.
 
Well...er...it wasn't mine exactly...but a very pretty orange and silver Jota which has come in at work. After giving it a bloody good clean and check over, oil, chain, tyres etc I donned mon gear only to find...mon dieu....I couldn't reach the floor...5 foot 3 female with very short legs.....surely some mistake ....have ridden several big Lavoidas over the last few years and never had a problem....
Aha....long spurious shock absorbers...top mounts in a different place on the frame....ah well, you can't win em all.....pity tho...in the last 5 years working with bikes its only the second one I wouldn't road test...the other?....a  Z 1300..... (bowdown)......
 
The canecutter texted me to meet him up the mountain, jumped on argy and the farken thing would turn over very fast but no starty!!! So I drove up for a sanga now am back home it still won't start.. Oh well, out I go to diagnose...farken Laverdas.... >:D >:D >:D
 
No I'm not as stupid as Cosi besides when I turn the kill switch off it stops the starter as well.

So I just pulled the sparklers out and they were wet, checked the ignition was working, nice fat spark on all 3, turned it over for about 15 seconds with sparklers out, put new ones back in, it fired for about 1 second then nothing, just turning over dead as a doornail. Plenty in the battery still, checked the ignition was working, yep it was, dumped the fuel out of all 3 bowls, no crap in there. Tank back on again, nada. Well I'm totally miffed as to what it could be! I rode it home from Tuesdays meeting and it was going just fine, and it did nearly 600ks last weekend. Might just leave it all open for a few hours and try again.

Very odd!
 
Earth wire to battery, black boxes, fuse box?
Plug caps screwed tight to HT leads?
Try fresh plugs.
 
drikko said:
The canecutter texted me to meet him up the mountain,,
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ay Drikko, we forgot to discuss ya old Koni's.  i reckon they're working ok, thanks.  :D
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& the bike coppa was exactly where i thought he would be.  & was already booking two other bikes.  8)

drikko said:
,, Tank back on again,,
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reckon you will soon be able to beat Levo for the quickest aRGie tank off & on interval.  :LOL: 
  Mark

<edit>  & thanks to Redax for the emulators.  the forks now work!  happy farken Laverda days!
 
Well Mr Muir seems the triples have been put in the cupboard hey????????

Drikko not sure why but I will bet those plugs are not sparking in the pots I wonder if you have a broken earth wire to your ignition? Or signal to your coils something simple but difficult to find.
 
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