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

Nothing yet in the Cambrian Shield.  Expect rain for the next 2 weeks. Snow should be gone and the HWY's clean then perhaps break out the pressure washer, oil and grease her.

Gotta buy a battery and should change the front tire.

Did see a Harley on the road April 1st - Poor over expense Soul - LOL
 
Rode to work. Crisp 4 or 5? C.
Tomorrow off for the weekend, british bike get together to which I'm chronically invited.
Will put around 12 to 1400 km on the SF2 in a week.
Paul
 
Well it has been a fun past month or so, the 1970 Laverda 750GT arrived from the UK and I went to work, the tank and covers have been painted the original red and look fantastic, the forks have been out and cleaned with new seals, the wheels have been cleaned and all bearings lubed and cables likewise, new tyres, tubes. Tidied up the wiring, re-charge the battery, new plugs and air filter. New grips, rubbers, knee pads, toolbox from Andy Wagner and Greg Parish, all fitted. Awaiting some new tachometer and speedo cables from Greg Parish, I might also get the easy clutch setup from him.

All that done and she started and was tuned and idles beautifully, so I headed off for a test ride about 80km she ran extremely well and pulled up to 150km/h without a problem, very nimble handling.

Only two issues, the seat needs new foam as the vibration was terrible so I have stripped her and am in the process of applying new foam and also some new alloy strips that she didn't have fitted. First time I have done a seat so a new task I am teaching myself.

The other issue is no headlight or tail light working, brake light is good, I have checked all wiring and fuses but nothing showing, park light, headlight and tail light bulbs are good. I even checked the switch but nothing wrong there either so a little confused.

Overall I am very impressed so I am now only hunting down a set of pillion foot pegs and a rear luggage rack, so if anyone can help that would be great. I intend riding her up to Coffs Harbour for their Classic rally at the end of May.

Cheers

Brett
 
"Tomorrow off for the weekend, british bike get together to which I'm chronically invited"
does this mean that you have an invite that is valid for your entire life?
that is  my understanding of chronic, but I didn't look in the concise Collins English dictionary, by the way British should have a capital "B" and don't you ever forget it again , otherwise I might have to ban brown  onion soup, foi gras, nougat and bunk up in a Bedford (cock au vin)

CLEM
 
Just checked Joan over - she's ready for the Prescott Hill climb tomorrow - its a festival of bikes raising money for the Freewheelers bloodrunners charity - got two runs up the hill - of course the Jota is fully suited to tight hairpins  :D- looking forward to it - a few years ago I took the HD tractor and the pro photographers took this which I had blown up - hopefully the same will happen again as you don't often get good pics of yourself riding your own bike .
 

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Time for a 12th Man/ Richie Benaudism:-

Richie - You'll never guess what I ate the other day. Braised deers penis. David told me to have it, said it tasted just like chicken - tasted more like  cock to me.
 
Hi Grant,

Through an outfit in Germany, www.classiccyclecity.com.

The chap there is called Thomas and his email address is: info@ClassicCycleCity.com

If you just email the length you need of the alloy seat trim and how many screws etc you need he will send you the price plus shipping cost and you can pay through PayPal.

I have used him twice now and very quick and good product.

By the way I have fixed my headlight and tail light it was crossed wires like I thought.

I am in the process of glueing the foam onto the seat base and will trim it down tomorrow.

Cheers

Brett
 
laverdas said:
took my sf1 to the iloc agm 250 miles of wind and rain but it was worth it :)
regards andy
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Go on! Photo of the SF1 pls. Best Laverda IMHO.

H.
 
Almost have swingarm and rear wheel all finished. Made some mods on Sunday morning, bolted it up, and am well pleased. Just looking for some clips to hang the rear brake line off. I'm off to Ebay.
 
laverdas said:
took my sf1 to the iloc agm 250 miles of wind and rain but it was worth it :)
regards andy
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Rode my Jota to the ILOC AGM, 120 miles of wind and sun but it was worth it! :D
I maybe tempting fate with the Jota, but nowts fallen off and no mechanical gremlins have escaped, so I'm now using earplugs again. Enjoyed a cracking ride up the Fosseway yesterday...  :D
 
Started it.

By the time I'd finished messing about it was getting a bit late so I didn't get out on it but I'll work from home tomorrow and rectify that situation  ;)
 
Rode to work as usual.
Used the SF2 Saturday and Sunday for a local british bike club rally. The only other italian was a nuovo Falcone.
Break on Saturday morning was in a small village just behind Dunkirk. A welcome drink in the garage of a guy who had a huge Scalextric track for us to play with and who was restoring a JAP engined Morgan 3 wheeler from a few rusty bits. After lunch, we set off through Flemish Flanders and stopped off at a Cafe in a 17th century farm. Excelent belgian beer was much enjoyed as was the visit of one of the barns which housed a Boss Hoss Chevy engined "motorcycle" and a pristine AC Cobra. Beautiful car. There was also a Morgan touch since the owner was restoring a 4 wheeled Morgan including rebuilding the wooden chassis.
An enjoyable evening was spent at accomadation in Zuydcoote on the french side, on the seaside. The beach was one from which the BEF and french troops evacuated across the Chanel in June 1940.

Sunday morning, off early through belgian Flanders again, following many little canals and through villages of old brick houses.
Mid morning stop in a fascinating museum near Paschendael housing a collection of replicas of WW1 airplanes, all hand built including engines and airworthy. Appropriately, a biplane was busy doing acrobatics above our heads.
Lunch in France and then home.

The SF2 performed faultlessly though a fair bit of oil is coming through that RH crank end seal. Will try and look into that this weekend. Will also tighten down primary cover which was off this winter and is also weeping oil. I didn't change the gasket which I haven't done I expect whilst the cover has been off half a dozen times.

More troublesome, one of the fork leg seals is leaking. I changed the oil this winter. Bugger!

Paul
 
hi all
Had to work on Saturday & Sunday so AGM only a few miles away not on....
Got back from Southampton at 6.30pm tonight quick bit of dinner and out for 30 miles on the SF1 with dry warm weather bloody great stuff. Fitted new gearbox output bearing and shims this has cured a slight whine and now good again, its a surprise no one seems to mention the Pazon ignition as it is really clean with the rebuilt carbs.
good riding Covkid
 
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