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

Motodd arrived  :D. I drooled - took it for a ride and tried to stay cool as people complimented me on the bike.
 

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mikenaz said:
Motodd arrived  :D. I drooled - took it for a ride and tried to stay cool as people complimented me on the bike.
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Beautiful bike! I was jealous throughout the build. The tankdoes look like its wearing orange underpants though ;O) .... Just sayin'

Seriously though I hope you have many miles of enjoyment on it.
 
Hi Mike
Am sure you are destined to get many many more compliments about the bike so get used to it as bet each and every time you take it out you will be getting them. Enjoy it wont you as it is one exquisitely hand built Laverda, Simply one of the best.
 
Sold my Atlas.
Needed cash flow for the biz. It was such a sweet bike too.
Anywayn still got POP to play with.
 
Wired up the bodged reg/rec properly, all seems good.  Also permanently wired in the new voltmeter thingy to a switched circuit. 

Dropped the needles back to the centre groove.  With the larger pilots it felt a bit mushy on the richer needle setting, reckon it should be good now.

Better give it a bit of a wash, one more run before the end of the month and then that'll do it.  Just over 10,000 km since March 2015, not too shabby. :D
 
Getting the RGS track mongrel ready for a race meeting next month. My mate Rick, who'll be riding it reckons the rear suspension is too stiff for him so I've made it adjustable.

Bolt at the top left is the original RGS shock mount. Bolt at the right is where I had the shocks mounted to raise the arse end and stiffen it up a bit. It's OK for me in the rearmost setting but I'm a fat bastard. The shock is now further forward than it was, which will soften it up a bit for Rick's lighter weight. Bolts at either end of the plate go into M10 threaded sockets welded to the frame (like the original). These also double as shock mounts, so there are 5 settings. The mounting holes in the plate are slotted vertically, giving about 12mm of vertical adjustment for plate.

Black plastic knob is a crash protector.

Just waiting on some stiffer springs the front suspension and (hopefully) that's the suspension sorted.
 

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Though I would see a Velo style big curved slot. When I was experimenting with raising the rear end I made a plate with a couple of holes in it, very basic with the holes in line just to see how unstable it would be as it raised the rear about 35mm, couldn't go lower as thats what it took to keep some meat between the holes and keep clearance to fit the bolts. It did feel a bit slappy,and with only 1 fixing not to structural. The testing was a couple of trips around the block maxed out at 80kph. It definitely steered fast but felt very twitchy. I ended up getting a longer shock top hat from Icon, 20mm and thats what its got now. BTW thats a really tidy gadget
 
As I didnt get to spend money that I didnt have anyways on a green Laverda took my Orange one out for some therapy prior to heading out to the creek for the day to help out the PCRA boys. In a way am glad that I didnt buy the green bike as one of the Jota's would have been on the chopping block..........would have been the other one me thinks... last in first out.. .isnt that how it works. Oh well they both stay now.

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Brett think ive said it before ..... farrrk thats a nice bike that cico  8)

Got a real presence/stance , that says have a go.... if ya man enough  ;)
Nice Job on that one  ;) pushes my buttons anyway  8)
 
Took the leaky and non-performing master cylinder off the Jota 120, and gave  it a nice ultrasonic bath.
Will re-assemble with new seals and refit tomorrow.
I expect a dramatic improvement....

Steve
 
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