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

Finished buttoning up the rear end of the SF2 then put exhausts back on.
Put 55 pilots in and then took the bike for 10km around town to see what gives carb wise and start scrubbing in the new rear tyre.
Eureka, well nearly.
Fluffing and spluttering all but gone. Engine revs out much more freely and vibrates less.

I'll end doing as Quentin suggests, go down to 50 pilots and up the mains to 145 to be safe.
That'll be very near what was on the bike when I bought it with a horrible 2/1 Marving on it. 50 pilots and 142 mains.

I'll be economising fuel as well, the last tank up worked out at 8.25 l / 100 km!

Paul
 
Took the SF2 into town this afternoon. Confirms 55 pilots are on the right track but needs 50s.
Went to see son n? 2 who works in a bar in Lille owned by an australian.. It was pissing down.
A table of australians in the bar. There are regularly quite a few, most likely linked to WW1 "celebrations". The fields around here are full of corpses and unexploded ammo including mustard gas shells.

Paul
 
Harry Lime said:
Well yesterday. Went to the Stafford Classic Bike Show. Couldn't see Mr. Chain. Saw that Kate at a distance but didn't run into her again. Whilst I didn't get to every corner of the place saw no Laverdas!

Bought some suitably none standard handlebars for my 3C - Apehangers, just in case I have to go to an ILOC meeting anytime  ;)

Showed serious interest in a nicely turned out British 500 single offered for sale at a reasonable, though not cheap, price. As I'm looking for something of that ilk, I asked to hear it running. After much sweating, cursing, kicking and assurances that "it was running an hour ago", I offered to try myself. There was something seriously amiss with the transmission!! Not sure why people bother TBH. Who's going to hand over a large wedge of dosh for a bike that won't start / is obviously f*****d? But I guess people do and the unscrupulous make money.

Show was a bit disappointing TBH. There seems to be less and less really good classic bikes on show and more and more junk / mediocre stuff each year. Shame, 'cos I used to enjoy it a lot.

Didn't go to the auction. But looking the results, to paraphrase Walt Disney's "Dumbo"

"I seen a horse fly, I seen a house fly..." [1]

"But I been done seen 'bout everything when I see" .......... an FS1-E sell for ?7,475!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22720/lot/326/

What the heck :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v2exWrsGOc

H.

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Went today - there was a Laverda on the second floor a 750 belonging to Coventry kid off the other site and dam fine it looked in orange - what amazed me were the prices written on tatty pieces of paper on complete shitters - there was a Bonnie that I am sure I saw last year with 6k on it  - where for that price you could buy a semi restored something with at least some semblance of appearance to the original bike - complete pisstakers - I did take some pics but I struggle to get them down to 200 kb without them being the size of a postage stamp. 
 
Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond said:
I did take some pics but I struggle to get them down to 200 kb without them being the size of a postage stamp.
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Dunno what happened to my original post, but thanks for quoting it. I do post using a Samsung thingamadoodle which I inherited from #1 son. Does some wierd stuff.

Photos - open a photobucket account or similar, upload yer photos and link to the URLs therein.

I know what you mean about the overpriced crap. T'was always the way though. But there used to be overpriced crap and decent deals. The latter seem in short supply.

One nice thing was the number of other European languages being spoken. it felt quite cosmopolitan at times. Although I fear it may be the rumour that the British will pay large sums of money for garbage..............has got around!

Good stuff...Dude! Just buy a cheap Blade!
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chrisk said:
Slapped the swing-arm and headers on. Headers are hitting up against Wolfgangs shit hot filter/oil drain cover .... FFS.
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That centre stand looks kinda crappy! But it's what you like, not what I think!  :D
 
Got a bit more done on the rebuild. Had my Michelins fitted during the week.Started to get the loom back on the bike. Lots of reference to other build photos, to make up for a lack of recording on dismantling and a poor memory! :o
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Thanks, Chris. No rush for me, as the engine is yet to go up to Keith for the rebuild. I hope to get it there as soon as he's back from his hols, next week.
It's just sitting there getting in my way now!
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Chris - Where are the top engine mounts - I can see a couple of welds on frame in that area - is this a separate mounting - if so - why?? -  I'll have an even bulkier oil filter plate on my 860Sf - but have got hi-level pipes! Looking good - Regards - Phil
 
phil37 said:
Chris - Where are the top engine mounts - I can see a couple of welds on frame in that area - is this a separate mounting - if so - why?? -  I'll have an even bulkier oil filter plate on my 860Sf - but have got hi-level pipes! Looking good - Regards - Phil
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Hey Phil
Just reworking them, I'm goining one fitted long plate on either side rather than two seprate ones.
I've just turned the filter 90 degrees and that helped get the sump plug centred but the top of the pipes still hit the plate.
Perhaps I'll need to add about 10mm to the header length. Very odd indeed. I'll sleep on it, that always helps.
 
Ppuxley said:
Got a bit more done on the rebuild. Had my Michelins fitted during the week.Started to get the loom back on the bike. Lots of reference to other build photos, to make up for a lack of recording on dismantling and a poor memory! :o
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Looking dam fine its going to be a belter when you finish
 
Rode to and from work, as usual.
Bike is definitely its cooler self since 55 pilots are in.
Takes a few km to settle down.
50 pilots in next weekend.
Paul
 
Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond said:
Looking dam fine its going to be a belter when you finish
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Quite pleased so far, but the plan didn't originally run to a back to basics repaint of the bodywork. On the basis that it would be an easy job to remove it subsequently and get it done when funds permitted. I have done some touch up of scratches and cracks in the fairing, and sorted some major cracks in the side panels, but I'm not satisfied with the results and am now starting to think that is going to let the whole thing down. It might stand scrutiny in a photo or at distance, but not up close.
I may have to bite the bullet.
First priority now, though is to get the engine off for rebuild.
Now, Where's that  diamond concrete Hilti core drill and which way to Hatton Garden, there's a Bank Holiday coming up isn't there?


 
Finished one.  :D

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Too sunny today, all the outside photos look like crap, I'll wheel it outside in the evening and try again.
The final things to sort out were leaking brand-new (last one) neutral switch, and slipping clutch.  Sorted now, can head off to it's happy owner.

SteveB
 
Ppuxley said:
Quite pleased so far, but the plan didn't originally run to a back to basics repaint of the bodywork. On the basis that it would be an easy job to remove it subsequently and get it done when funds permitted. I have done some touch up of scratches and cracks in the fairing, and sorted some major cracks in the side panels, but I'm not satisfied with the results and am now starting to think that is going to let the whole thing down. It might stand scrutiny in a photo or at distance, but not up close.
I may have to bite the bullet.
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Oh dear  :LOL: I know exactly how you feel as I have travelled the same path. What started out as a "I'll just get the engine sorted and the bike back on the road" ended up being a full strip down and bare frame rebuild. If the head ruled the heart I should have just parted the thing out and flogged the bits on Ebay and gone down to the dealers and put a new bike on the road for way less dosh.
 
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