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

Coupla things will help that- I'm going to try the fork sliders in silver and alloy bodied shocks will help at the back.

It looks a bit dull in the pics cos it's a bit grubby- still tons of salt down on the roads. >:(
 
Reggie3cl said:
Coupla things will help that- I'm going to try the fork sliders in silver and alloy bodied shocks will help at the back.

It looks a bit dull in the pics cos it's a bit grubby- still tons of salt down on the roads. >:(
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Don't do that, it will look like its from Essex.


    Keith
 
Took a nice long drive today. The SFC1000 drove flawless and swiftly. When it got dark, I quickly returned home, as it reached 0 degrees celsius.
So now I am Warming my feet and listening to Stan Getz on the stereo. And some warm tea.
Nice.

Cheers,
Jacques.
 
I was busy pricing the RGS parts today but took time to fit some more stuff to the Fatlas.
Swapped big discs for the silencers.
Collect better condition frame for it at the weekend and then the build proper should start.



 
Grant said:
.... then the build proper should start.
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You can't do it, can you? You're cycle, cycleogincally, psychologically incapable of chucking together a basic, ratty, but cool bike that you'll happily trot down to the shops on in the rain and leave outside the bar without a lock, whilst having that swift pastis.

New, smarter FRAME?

H.
 
When you start with such low quality parts (brakes seized solid, no electrics, pitted forks, no engine, exhaust or rear wheel for starters) as I did here it's just not possible to throw it together as you indicate.
The current frame has many lugs cut off, badly welded parts, centrestand cut down and the paint is really gone.
The 'new' frame has better paint, full centrestand and all the lugs are there.
It also appears to have a better chance of being registered more easily.
By proper build I mean the dry build period is over and things will be fitted and will stay in this time.

 
Rode to work on the SF2.
Have been doing so all week so about 100 km of town work.
My first reaction to the straight through pipes was that they were pretty loud. I've got used to them but then I used to love coming home late in the evening on the SFC after an evening out with the boys, hearing all the car alarms go off as I passed.
I thought at first that the engine vibrated more with those pipes but I think it's a false impression.
I also thought that I'd lost midrange but I think it's a carb issue.
The bike splutters a bit on fast iddle from cold and hesitates sometimes when opening up at low revs.
Would I be right in thinking it may be a tad lean on the iddle jets with the more open pipes?

Paul
 
test rode Paul Mullholland's recently recommissioned Corsa,

by Pat Higgs of Viking classics (Bromley) Kent. I have helped Pat over the years whenever there is a Laverda in his workshops, usually virtually doing the work/job and providing the factory tools and parts + spares from my tiny stocks, but this time all I could do was feed the tools and some parts, plus verbally help and provide contact details, Keith Nairn (Laverda Scozia in Glasgow) was a great help and suggested an alternative rear master cylinder,( that is a mod I must look into for TOG,) the rear brake is the most astounding difference to any triple that I have ever ridden, it just plain and simply works and has great feel, with massive power, more than the tyre can take if you want it (!!!) plus gave free advice on matters related to starter clutch and valve timing, Thanks a lot Keith. You have made a small difference to the Southern Laverda owners without even earning a penny from it.

My word that is a well set up and fast bike, the torque from the motor at 4000 RPM is just astounding and the power does not tail off up to the 6500 that I achieved in third gear on the A21,a couple of times, this was a very nice bike to ride, I own one, but have never ridden it, I have ridden many RGS's and a few SFC's (twins and triples) but this one is certainly right up there for the joy of a willing motor that has a bark very like a V12 Ferrari. The RGS has never really set me on fire, but it has now, could this really be the fact that I am five and half stone lighter (35 kilos) giving a much higher power to weight ratio? I don't know,if it is then I certainly recommend that all you fatties slim down, it cheap tuning!, but I am still buzzing from the thrill of my 25 mile ride two days later, well done Pat and Keith, you have made Paul a very happy fellow, and his ?7000 Corsa is probably now worth every penny that he has added to it (about ?1500) and maybe more on top.
CLEM
 
CLEMTOG said:
test rode Paul Mullholland's recently recommissioned Corsa,

by Pat Higgs of Viking classics (Bromley) Kent. I have helped Pat over the years whenever there is a Laverda in his workshops, usually virtually doing the work/job and providing the factory tools and parts + spares from my tiny stocks, but this time all I could do was feed the tools and some parts, plus verbally help and provide contact details, Keith Nairn (Laverda Scozia in Glasgow) was a great help and suggested an alternative rear master cylinder,( that is a mod I must look into for TOG,) the rear brake is the most astounding difference to any triple that I have ever ridden, it just plain and simply works and has great feel, with massive power, more than the tyre can take if you want it (!!!) plus gave free advice on matters related to starter clutch and valve timing, Thanks a lot Keith. You have made a small difference to the Southern Laverda owners without even earning a penny from it.

My word that is a well set up and fast bike, the torque from the motor at 4000 RPM is just astounding and the power does not tail off up to the 6500 that I achieved in third gear on the A21,a couple of times, this was a very nice bike to ride, I own one, but have never ridden it, I have ridden many RGS's and a few SFC's (twins and triples) but this one is certainly right up there for the joy of a willing motor that has a bark very like a V12 Ferrari. The RGS has never really set me on fire, but it has now, could this really be the fact that I am five and half stone lighter (35 kilos) giving a much higher power to weight ratio? I don't know,if it is then I certainly recommend that all you fatties slim down, it cheap tuning!, but I am still buzzing from the thrill of my 25 mile ride two days later, well done Pat and Keith, you have made Paul a very happy fellow, and his ?7000 Corsa is probably now worth every penny that he has added to it (about ?1500) and maybe more on top.
CLEM
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Thats nice, maybe you shandy drinking poofs can have a whip round.  ;) ;)


    Keith.
 
The local Sydney Brett had a mate come back to Sydney from the USA a couple of weeks back.he was an old NSW Laverda Club Alumni.The 3 of us did an Old Rd run,and Brett let him ride his Corsa.That resulted in lots of excited raving,this was from a long time Laverda owner who hadn't ridden a Corsa before.Seems I am missing something special.
 
Painted it. Well, actually painted Boba's lovely carbon. Being a law abiding citizen I painted the carbon in the colour the bike was registered as but still wanted the carbon to show. Completely amateur and never painted a tank before, let alone masked up pin stripes so was a bit concerned about what it would look like. Also decided to deviate a little more from the std paint scheme. 2 coats of basecoat, pinnies masked with fineline tape and I'm quite chuffed with the outcome. Just need to clean up and hit it with the 2K gloss clear then stick it on the bike.

 

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MOT today - I tips up - give the old cert to the lady - he comes and has chat for 10 mins - checks the rear brake and the front brake - 360 walkround - nice bike - tickets in the shop in 20 mins  ;) I like a guy with sympathy for something that looks right - guy behind me has a GPz900R - full works in the shop  :D
 
Dropped the 3C rear mudguard off at the local fibreglassers so he could make a mould and run off a couple of new guards.  He used to work for TVR so I guess he is used to making parts for machines that try to shake themselves to bits  :)

The guard was an SFC copy part that I had to modify a lot to get to fit.  I got it into reasonable shape but ran out of the required patience and skill needed to make a mould  :-[
 

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