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

Hope you and the Gelati aren't too battered and bruised and it's nothing the medicos and Red can't fix.

Best wishes

terry
 
Cosi said:
Crashed it.... 
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yea, elPrez Cosi goes for the big dramatic exit with style.
& a piccy or two,
http://www.laverdaforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,92902.msg326349.html#msg326349
& reckon Cosi took it on the chin ok. could have been much worse, considering the pace on exit of turn 3. 
 
Took the Orange one for a morning ride to Picton with some of the CIMMA guys but then decided to keep on riding it and riding it so got home some 600 odd K's later and near dark as figured that would then make it too late to mow the lawns  :D :D :D :D now its due for an oil change again !!
 
Spent the day doing a 10 minute job installing drawers in the kitchen instead of riding with the WA Laverda lads. Now totally pituded on Laphroig to ease the aches and pains. Yes Ron, I have stolen pituded and it is now mine  :LOL:
 
Yes Ron, I have stolen pituded and it is now mine  :LOL:
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You're Welcome! Feel free to Pass It On - I may just have to settle for being "Halfcut" considering I can no longer be "Pituded" - ROLF

My Beer Thread is dying over a Pussy Cat - Thanks to Chrisk. ;o)
 
Not my bike but Golden Pandas RGS sort of died, ignition still going but all other electricals out including headlights which was a worry as it was nught! Anyway he brought it around yesterday, took it's clothes off, poked around with a multimeter and sure enough one of the power wires from the ignition switch was broken. Now the wiring on this bike has been hacked and cluster fucked for 30 years so it is a mess, but we got it going with a bit of trickery, but a worrying thing I noticed is the feed to the headlight relays comes from the same wire!! So the whole idea of using relays is half baked ie it's still coming through the ignition switch and fuse!

If you're putting in headlight relays you don't need and shouldn't do that, put in a new feed direct from the battery through a new fuse to the relays.

At least the headlight power wasn't going through the handlebar switches.....

Next time Joey's over here I'll make sure I've got wire and fuse holder to fix it proper like.

Should be right for Ruptured Budgie now Joey  :)
 
Took my SF for a pre-MOT shakedown spin. First time I've ridden it this year (been riding other things).

Wobble wobble.

15PSI *is* a little low for the front tyre, isn't it?  :D

Back home, pumpetty pump and the bike is as lovely as I remember it.

MOT tomoz or Tubesday.

That Grant is meant to be dropping by tomorrow too.
 
Went through the paperwork at the registration office to get new documents for the 100 Tourismo.  Took the resulting slip to the T?V and passed testing OK!  ?220 for a bundle of papers... ::)  Rego plate is ordered, getting insurance tomorrow and hopefully registered next week.  Looking good.

Milano-Taranto, here I come! :D :D

piet
 
drikko said:
So the whole idea of using relays is half baked ie it's still coming through the ignition switch and fuse!

If you're putting in headlight relays you don't need and shouldn't do that, put in a new feed direct from the battery through a new fuse to the relays.

At least the headlight power wasn't going through the handlebar switches.....

Yep always run a nice fat 30amp wire from the battery via a relay to the headlight relays also now have got into also running the horns also via a relay as when they part company with the bike and they invariably do on the RGS at least when the wires then come in contact with the headers they wont short the whole show out ........
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drikko said:
Not my bike but Golden Pandas RGS sort of died, ignition still going but all other electricals out including headlights which was a worry as it was nught! Anyway he brought it around yesterday, took it's clothes off, poked around with a multimeter and sure enough one of the power wires from the ignition switch was broken. Now the wiring on this bike has been hacked and cluster fucked for 30 years so it is a mess, but we got it going with a bit of trickery, but a worrying thing I noticed is the feed to the headlight relays comes from the same wire!! So the whole idea of using relays is half baked ie it's still coming through the ignition switch and fuse!

If you're putting in headlight relays you don't need and shouldn't do that, put in a new feed direct from the battery through a new fuse to the relays.

At least the headlight power wasn't going through the handlebar switches.....

Next time Joey's over here I'll make sure I've got wire and fuse holder to fix it proper like.

Should be right for Ruptured Budgie now Joey  :)
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Thanks again Drikko. Headlight working like a champion!

A few slight issues have since arisen and I assume it can again be attributed to the fucking Bermuda Triangle that is my wiring loom;

No tail light
No brake light
Headlight light on the dash only comes on when I engage the brakes.

Pretty strange if you ask me. Other that that everything else is working fine, or not working because it never did and I can live without it.



 
Went down to The Bike Factory on Gouger Street in downtown Adelaide the get a bunch of carbie fixing kits and... Well, everybody I reckon has dreamt, discussed and argued about what bike they would have if they could only have one and money was no object.
I have seen THE bike, standing there on an old oil stained bit of carpet (the Bike Factory is very old school) was a JMC Egli Vincent!!!
I need it; to look at, to polish but more importantly, to thrash. Anybody got $78,000 Oz that they aren't using at the moment?
Guess I'll have to google 'bank robbery 101'.
 
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