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

Took the 1000 SFC out for a run.
I spent an hour or so fixing a broken wire to the rear lights first, so lights now work. Horn still refusing to work, even though the test meter was showing 12.3 V. Substituting horns I know work made no difference. Need to trace wiring...
The Autobahn was fairly busy, but managed a burst at 7,000 RPM in top, with the hopelessly optimistic Veglia showing 230 km/h.  :D
The front brake is soggy, and the bike won't idle when hot, so a bit more fettling required.
Otherwise OK, goes well.

Steve
 
Took the 83 RGS for a 600-mile run on Missouri back roads. Spectacular bits of two-lane heaven, the road time and again dropping from a ridge into a valley, twisting several times before hitting the valley floor, then transitioning to a short straight, allowing a brief full throttle blast across the inevitable bridge before going up and out the other side. Fantastic. The RGS ran perfectly. Bike on the left is friend Paul's 1975 Guzzi T3, just treated to a comprehensive driveline rebuild (trans and final drive) while on the right is Ken's 1991 Honda ST1100. "The Appliance," as he calls it. Ken rode nothing but Nortons for years (put 150,000 miles on his 74 Commando), he's building another one now. He rides with rare talent, making the ST look like a sport bike.
 

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Put brake calipers back together and mounted on forks. Finally found the missing bajo bold ........ under my lathe?
Been emailing Boba the last couple of days about my carbon bodywork wishes, let's see if he can perform what I've asked for.  :D
 
chrisk said:
Put brake calipers back together and mounted on forks. Finally found the missing bajo bold ........ under my lathe?
Been emailing Boba the last couple of days about my carbon bodywork wishes, let's see if he can perform what I've asked for.  :D
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Finally got well enough to get back into the beer, eh?  :D
 
I have been cleaning up a set of header pipes for #6041. Originally black painted, now stripped back to bare metal.
They are all a bit rust pitted around the outside radius of the bend near the head and on the bend under the motor.  Took them out to the ceramic coaters today to see what he thought, not enough thickness of metal to cut them right back without getting too thin, but I'll get them pretty good.
Will work on them more on the weekend and then take them on Monday for ceramic chrome coating. They should be ready for collection when I'm back home after my next swing away at work.

pete
 
After another hectic week of travel (got back at 1am yesterday) today was back to business as usual.
Collected stuff for the Motodd from the painter, ordered tyres.

And then, to chill, rode POP for a while.
Perfect biking weather at the moment here. Mid to high 20s, low humidity.
She is settling down and running in nicely now, gonna be a monster when fully run in. These stainless absorption type silencers give a deep throaty growl, not the tinny rasp of stainless Jota cans.




So today, in between a few other jobs I fitted a few more items on to the 750 to see how they look.
Just takes it a bit more towards standard.

 
Beautiful sunny day and Simon Ralph came to call to pick up a couple of bits and pieces, have a chin wag and neck a swift pint. But mainly as an excuse for a ride on his lovely Jota 120.
He cast an eye over my build and gave me a few pointers, and I was able to measure up his Witt ignition so I can work out where to put it , having had the nod from Keith that, that's what needs to go on mine.
Had a quick spin out to The Pot Kiln at Frilsham, with me confined to four wheels.....roll on the rebuild!
Good to meet you Simon,
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Yes, great to meet you Patrick and thanks for your hospitality at chez Puxley and the pint.
Your bike looks great and I'm sure your engine will enjoy it's holiday in Scotland. Another Jota 120 on the road soon.

I really enjoyed the ride out to the pub.
Perhaps if you give me a route plan next time I might be able to catch your Porsche a bit quicker :D
Great laugh on those twisties.

I'm really made up with the sat nav, useful for those pesky speed cameras on the M25 as I can see the speed much clearer.

Now I have got the left hand exhaust manifold tightened she is running sweet as a nut.
 
Ok, seems these pedals on the car floor are definitely getting harder to use.
Dont know if its because there are so many cameras around but there are one hell of a lot of cars driving into houses these days. More work for us builders so there is a good side.
 
Hope not too much damage Chris. One consolation, the Swanees got up over you know who yesterday. ;)
 
I hope you have good insurance Chris. Similar thing happened to a bloke I used to work with. Missus crashed car into house. Vehicle insurer said it was covered by house insurance. House insurance (different company) said it was covered by vehicle third party. Both of them refused the claim. In the end he had to take legal action which basically involved filing a lawsuit against his wife! It was eventually settled out of court. One of the insurers (or possibly both) paid up.
 
Vince said:
Seems you cannot have a Laverda Ride without a million dollar vintage car turning up.
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8 million if this was a real one Vince.....couple of weeks ago in Kinglake with Hooksey.
...and Marysville today. Black Spur was heavy fog and slippery 10 min out of sunny Marysville.
 

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Is that one of those Jimmy Dean Spiders? The last time I was driving up the old rd I was passing The Road Warriers Cafe and there was a very nice Alloy bodied GT 40 parked out front. I was thinking it might be one of the Sydney Laverda blokes genuine one, couldnt find him at the time. Asked him at the last club night,nope his is  light blue.
 
Bugger, were going to have to retire this thread Guys... After Cor's exploits the only thing we can write here now is 'pitifully little'.  :D
 
Paul, all we can do is what we can do.
Some folk like Cor take it to a higher level but that shouldn't diminish what everyone else does.
 
I don't think this thread should be taken as a p***ing competition. I take it solely as an information about what others are doing currently, which I take some inspiration from (and some guilty feeling, as to many projects are not moving as they should in my garage...  :-[ ). Am I wrong thinking this was the intention of the thread originally (and maybe still)?  ::)

  ;)
 
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