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

Bugger, it's still doing it!
Out of work, a bit of lane filtering and a couple of lights and then jumped onto a 4 lane urban thing for about 6 km. After 2, the machine was fluffing on constant throttle at 100 km/h which must be about 3500 revs. Drives through it and revs fine. Back into urban land and it splutters briefly on pick up from town revs.

Will fiddle with jets this weekend.

Ride it to work for the rest of the week.

Paul
 
I put a new (to me) rear fender on my American Eagle. My original was badly scratched somehow above the tail light and the rounded lip at the back was folded under so it looked squared off. This one looks proper and needed only a little weld on an out of sight crack before installation. Now it will need an extensive test ride I am sure............. :D
 
Paul Marx said:
Bugger, it's still doing it!
Out of work, a bit of lane filtering and a couple of lights and then jumped onto a 4 lane urban thing for about 6 km. After 2, the machine was fluffing on constant throttle at 100 km/h which must be about 3500 revs. Drives through it and revs fine. Back into urban land and it splutters briefly on pick up from town revs.

Will fiddle with jets this weekend.

Ride it to work for the rest of the week.

Paul
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Re-fit the stock exhaust and it will be gone... :D

piet
 
Replace the stock exhaust or richen the Main Jets. I had to go from 125's to 132's when went 2 into 1 on my 72 VHB 30A's SF and had to keep her open mouth.

Right now, I'd say your leaning out on open throttle in higher gears and under load - Don't melt your pistons.
 
I commited a cardinal sin!!! did not block up the cam chain tunnel so the only head nut I dropped had to go down there.
If any body ever does this at least I know how do get it out. tip bike on side remove oil filter and put a magnet on a string bobs your uncle
Or just block the bloody cam chain tunnel next time
 
Didn't actually do anything with it but we were looking through some old photos and here is the only known (to me) photo of the SF2 I had back in the 70's. Its the red thing on the left with the bikini faring. I also owned the VW beetle, '56 model.

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Indeed Gerald, that particular one was so beaten up, after the photo I did 100,000ks or more in it, was rolled by a mate and crashed a few times by my bro', when I finally sold it I haggled the buyer down from $250 down to $150 to not feel guilty. It was an oval window 36hp one of course. Wish I had it now! But I wish I had the SF2 more!
 
did it have the crash box transmission? I remember a WTF moment in a '56 Beetle shifting up from 1st into 2nd and the grinding noise coming from the back.....
 
I had a 59 Kombi, it was really gutless, probably the same motor as yours Drikko.
Sold that when I discovered motorcycles and brought a 250 Desmo Ducati. Didn't own a car for the next 10 years.
 
drikko said:
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:D I loved those tops the girls wore back then, tightly fitted and little short sleeves, they made thier breasts look oh so perky ....... especially when matched with those high waisted jeans (that prove they were hit with an axe) oh, (which are back in fashion, thank you Jesus  :D  ), or, in this case a high waisted skirt......... Oh dear, I need a visit to my second fav web site  :P
 
(good day) + (good mountain) + (good Laverda) = great ride
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Maiala Teahouse & SeFFie.  ya gotta luv ya Lav!

& some motor-bicycles of interest often putter up the mountain during the mid-week.
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well, i thought they were of interest.
  Mark
 
yes & no. 
it's still me 'mission brown' Seppo without new paint.  coz i'm still on a budget.  buggar  :-[

yea, kinda looks a half decent red in that pic.
look close enough, & the paint chips are still on the side of the tank.  history.  ya gotta luv it ay.

i don't notice the colour when riding. 
 
yea.  the Guzzi was a V 1000 I-Convert.  the real deal.

2-speed semi-auto with torque converter.
reckon it would need that oil cooler for the converter when chugging up the mountain.
& it had a cable operated parking brake, hooked up between the side-stand & the rear disc brake.  innovative.

  Mark
 
Convert needs to be cafe'd. Waste of a good bike in that horrible original form  ::) (can't find the tongue in cheek emoticon)
 
I rode down to Derby (UK) [1] to a chrome plating place and spoke with the very pleasant proprietor.

I had a bag full of miscellaneous small Laverda bits such as headlamp brackets, tubes, mudguard mounts and other assorted shit precious ORIGINAL JOTA ;) parts.

Interesting that his initial take was "if you can buy 'em new, or remanufactured, it won't be worth my replating them."

He was wrong. That or I'm window shopping in the wrong places.

My approach (as I don't need the parts) was - if the cost of replating comes to more than half the cost of a new part, it goes in the bin.

It was close, but the cost of replating came to pretty much 50% of the replacement on the market.

Interesting that his take on why plating had become so much more expensive was "cost of chemicals, but mainly labour", not the "environmental reasons" discussed previously on here.

Just talking....

H.

[1] I like living here 'cos there's pretty much everything "light engineering" you could want, within a 20 mile radius.
 
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