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

The Formula Mirage I bought a few months back has made it almost to home! Truck delivered it to a friends business in town as he had a forklift.
Unfortunately ..... I am still working the forest fires and my 3 mandatory days off may have to be taken away from home as so many roads are closed and so many towns evacuated that i may not be able to travel.
Photo's will have to wait ......
 
The bicycle speedo I fitted is very accurate (the authorities were kind enough to place a speed check radar near home), the bike's speedo is underreading by approx 5 kmh. After a 200+ ride, the bike's odometer and the odometer function on the bicycle computer are within 2 kilometres; makes me wonder if it's worthwhile tweaking the needle a bit to align the veglia.
 
My little charge light circuit board that John Wilson made a few years ago has thrown its leg in the air. GEN light stays on all the time.

So I bought this little digital voltmeter on ebay http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/DC-12V-24V-Car-Motorcycle-LED-Digital-Display-Voltmeter-Waterproof-Meter-Elegant/161457903421?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649
It has a flanged front for panel mounting. I filed the flange off to leave a simple rectangular block and stuck it on with double sided tape.

It's not as neat a job as some folks have done (integrating it into the dash, etc.) but it works, and I'm not that fussy about aesthetics.

Next job is to disconnect that charge light circuit. Might peel the heat-shrink and silicone off John's circuit board and see what's in it.
 

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Had some free time and did a lot of work to my 3C that has not run in 28yrs, cleaned carbs,checked valves, changed oil, fixed some minor wiring issue,put a battery in and it fired right up and sounds nice,not even a puff of smoke , I have been real lucky that both my bikes (3CL) have started right up and run well,just brakes to rebuild now
 
Fitted a Sachse ignition to my RGS. After what sounds like the usual teething troubles because of incorrect labelling and wire colours I followed my own brain instead of the instructions and got it running. A bit rough but running. Checked TDC yet again to make sure it was spot on (boy I'm getting good at taking the tank off) then finally out for a run. What a difference! It started out a bit rough but I think that was just from flooding it while mucking around with the timing, after a couple of Ks it ran sweet as a top. It will now burble along quite happily at 50 around town and as soon as I get to the open road simply wind on the throttle. I like being able to pull away smoothly from a standstill without having to over-rev and run the clutch so much. It never used to be really happy below 4000RPM but now it doesnt mind at all. And oh boy, it really sings above 5000  ;). Probably the best thing of all for my confidence is that it now starts much easier, with less or no choke, and will idle reliably hot or cold.
In short, everything people say on this forum about changing the ignition is bang on  :D (or should I say bang-bang-bang on...  :P)

Oh and the other thing I did was pull apart the dash to get at the rev counter. I was mightily disappointed to find the gauge possibly worse than before and so something had to be done! What I found was a small metal block on the back of the needle had become loose, dropping onto the gauge face and binding. I think it's a counterweight for the needle. I didn't like to risk pulling the needle off so I carefully placed a tiny drop of superglue in the right spot just on the edge of the weight and pushed it back into place. Perfect! Now it's smooth and predictable. Not sure how accurate yet, I'll have to check the numbers, but it seems pretty close  (thumbup)

Next thing is panniers... I'm quite proud of how they've turned out so I'll post some pics when the frame comes back from the painter  :D
 
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