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

kate n guy said:
Yeah...not...
Sorry Andy...just off to polish me duke.....
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You realise you might go blind with that sort of behaviour. :D

                        Dave
 
Had Cam come down and help with a couple of problems with the Jota. The guy just puts his hands on the bike and the problems are solved. I reckon he could walk on water if he wanted to. Anyway bike is getting very close to being registered and I can start enjoying the southern Tasmanian roads.
JW
 
You exaggerate my capabilities Jeremy. I did bugger all. Your charging system was working fine. If it wasn't working before I checked it, then I have no idea why. Could you have inadvertently put your multimeter on the wrong setting (eg: AC Volts when you were measuring DC) and made an incorrect assumption? 

I discovered when I got home that I had a couple of 25A blade-type fuses rattling about in the glove box of the car that I could have given you for the bike. Bugger!
(JW only had 5 and 10 A fuses to play with and blew a bunch of them testing things).

Let us know when you're ready to hit the road. There are a couple of other Laverda triple owners down your way (Russ and Aldo).

Cheers,
Cam
 
Under instructions from the wise man of the East, and with great trepidation, took a dremel and got stuck into my expensive new cams. Engine back together and all is running as sweet as. Hope it stays that way.
 
Fannied about with the Fatlas most of the day. Decided the single instrument set up needs (much) more thought.

Hopefully tomorrow I will have time for fettling POP back to how she should be.
 
Went auto-jumbling at the Stafford Show. Usual old junk ;-)

1000 is #4988 engine and frame on a UK S plate. Deposit taken on a sale of ?3000. UK Motodd number plate.

1200 was French, I think, up for ?3295, unsold I think.

There was also a red Jota (must've been, said so on the side panel) already sold. Didn't catch the price.

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More photos, of some interesting motorcycles which aren't junk, here....

http://s1316.photobucket.com/user/HarryLime1/slideshow/Motorbike%20Stuff/Stafford%202014?sort=3

H.
 
I think the red one was ?6500 and there was an orange one at ?9000 ish.the 77 one in bits was asking ?5000 on Saturday and was at nettly marsh before at ?3500.
Neale
 
Replaced the Moto Witt box on my Corsa, now firing on all 3 as it should be. It had lost spark (though when plug was out of cylinder it would occassionally spark) on the left cylinder and through process of elimination it surprized me that it was the Witt, not a plug, coil or connection.  Still time for a fall ride or two before it snows.
 
Put the dynamo which had let me down in Italy this summer back on the SF2. New bearings in it and casing cleaned up and varnished.
It works.
Paul
 
Ordered carb bits from Wolfgang so I can adjust for high altitude...Prescott is at 5300 ft elevation. Next up is cleaning fuel filters, as long as I have things apart. Then on to the rest of the list for servicing at 24,600 miles.
 
Needed a new front tyre for the Snowy Run,rang and ordered what I wanted and got the call to bring in the wheel.So I pull the wheel,now the bike cannot be moved and its blocking the shed door.I drop off the wheel and head home.The phone rings a couple of hours latter,a very apologetic shop bloke tells me the label on the tyre says 110 x80 x18,but the tyre itself turns out to be a 110 x 80 x 19.Hope it takes less than the first week to swap it out with the distributer.
 
Cleaned and polished the bike. SF2. Pumped up the tyres and upped the shock springs. We'll be two up for our local club autumn rally tomorrow. Small roads certainly full of mud from potatoe and sugar beet havesting. It's pissing down at the moment.
Paul
 
Beautiful day today so went for a ride up the mountain for a sammich then back home to do an overdue oil change, more than usual hair on the magnetic plug which is a worry.......nothing in the filter though. Might do oil changes at lower mileages for a while and see if it keeps furring the magnet.

Oh and no I didn't anneal the drain plug washer..



 
Shajota said:
Went for a run to the local dam on a coupla triples.
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musta bin very bloody local for that Trumpy bloke to get the X-75 outta town !!  8)

<edit> i'm guessing that's the Burdekin ??  up river from me cane fields.
nar, way too far.  maybe Ross river.  ::)
 
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