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

Was raining today so thanks to that top bloke JotaJoe who gave me his rebuild parts i changed the sprocket carrier and shock blocks  on Joan - Joe had noticed that the bearing was a little iffy when we changed tyres
 

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Rekeyed the seat lock on the Jota so now it works !! and in a crazy twist of fate it is well and truely tied in now with the past.
This bike came without a seat lock key, when a mate cleaned out his mothers old house he turned up the spare keys from his original Jota, the bike that got Laverda juice pumping through my viens.. so I have rekeyed the seat lock key on my Jota now to suit this key  :o
It also wears a tank badge from my original bike now.

 

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Its taken a while but finished some tuning and retensioned the head on the RGS race bikeI had to swap the 180 cam cover for the RGS one due to a broken mount and pissing oil out  its always good to wash off the greasy hand marks.
Off for some testing on her September 30th yay :)
 

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mate-me and cos there week before-get that bears application in well see u there-u can do the friday practice day with us if u dont want to race sat/sun-even got a bed for u
 
Dellortoman said:
What's that black thing on the alternator cover - some kind of case protector?
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Oil left over from the leaking cam cover I bet.............

Looks like 2 trips to Broadford in a week coming up hey  (bolt)
 
Brett said:
Oil left over from the leaking cam cover I bet.............

Looks like 2 trips to Broadford in a week coming up hey  (bolt)
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For both of you hopefully....
Comin Maurice , I want to b able to beat someone legitimately😜
 
Replaced the old brakelines from 83. Replaced the mastercylinder with an adjustable AP.
Oil and plugs replaced.
Only minor updates are done to this bike since new. (Ignition, Ohlins, cartridge emulator and now the brakes).
Thought I save the test ride for today but ofcuorse it is raining.

 
After weeks and weeks of warm steamy weather it was nice to go for a ride on a clear cooler morning.
What was supposed to be a 1/2 hour run, turned into 2 hours +.
I bumped into two Aussie ladies who were trying to figure out how to open the fuel cap cover on their hire car. After 3-4 minutes of looking for buttons/switches I pressed the cover and it sprung open. It seems nobody steals fuel any more. They were well pleased.

Great run though, bike runs as smooth as silk.

Weather set to go into the 30's again though.
 
SimonR501 said:
I bumped into two Aussie ladies who were trying to figure out how to open the fuel cap cover on their hire car. After 3-4 minutes of looking for buttons/switches I pressed the cover and it sprung open. It seems nobody steals fuel any more. They were well pleased.
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May find it locks when the car doors lock.
 
Davo said:
May find it locks when the car doors lock.
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Hired a hyundry last year in Sydney, had our engineer with me. We couldn't get the fuel cap open. Finally gave up and read the manual (yep!) and the doors had to be locked before the cap could be opened! Go figure!
 
Grant said:
Handsome looking bike there.
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Thanks Grant!
The bike has funny story...
I was offered to buy this about 18 years ago. It then had about 6000 km. At the same time I was offered an SFC electronica. Both had a price tag at 50000 SEk wich is about about 5000 euro. I thought both of them was a good deal but being in the middle of building a garage i passed the SFC to Marnix and the RGS to another friend. I bought the RGS some ten years ago, now with 8000 km. Now 14000 km.
The RGS is probalbly still not worth much more than the 5000 eur they asked for it 18 years ago...
 
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