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

Jotaman said:
I rode my Jota - sans fairing and it was Goooddd, memories of an earlier incarnation and handling almost spot on - Yeee harrrrr.

Peter
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I heard it thrown around today that  it was also a "pretty" bike.... :P
 
Took my 3C for the annual MOT, and now I'm sending off the documents to have it classed as an 'Historic Vehicle' and hence be exempt from vehicle excise duty (UK).
That'll make two road tax exempt vehicles I'm running, the Laverda and?..a Citroen C1!
 
Having finally finished sanding down the header pipes for the 3C project, I bolted them to the bike.

Just need to get the bike to my welder mate for him to craft a link pipe to the SFC megaphone next!

Chris

p.s. I love the oil cooler bracket Padders.  Follow your heart mate!
 

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A bit more done tonight. Chopped out that triangle bit of metal and made a couple of side panel templates. The photo of the mesh one doesn't do it justice, it stands out far more in the flesh. Still leaning more toward the solid one though.

FFF









If you look closely at the top left hand of the pics you can just make out the tarts handbag of a Pingle fuel tap.
 
Played starter motor today, cleaned up the outer casing and painted it. Brush cage is in the dishwasher now (the Mrs is working today :D )

Anyone have a picture of the cage, in particular the insulator part, I have to make up an insulator and am flying blind.

 
To tell you the truth I don't even want to look at an onther piece of Breganze Shit - Breganzie's  will either kill me or I suicide.  Another Season.

Oh Hum! Breganzie`s have yet to STOP my Heart.
 
For Christ's sake Ron. Stop being a drama queen.  :D

A Breganze bike will only kill you if you hit a tree, or a truck head on, or ride off a cliff, or ...  other deadly impacts.

I've never heard of a Laverda-related suicide.
 
Finally handed back the second 900SS yesterday, so today I shuffled the bikes round in the garage so I could get out the next one in the queue to work on. Back to Laverdas at last!
Working on 2 now simultaneously, a series 2 1000 and a Motodd.

Some more of Boba's magic, just waiting for it to pop through the letterbox here.



Thought this pic was cool, the 3 sisters.

 
Laverda SF said:
To tell you the truth I don't even want to look at an onther piece of Breganze Shit - Breganzie's  will either kill me or I suicide.  Another Season.

Oh Hum! Breganzie`s have yet to STOP my Heart.
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OI, only just realised, you calling my bike shit! Wana bun fight???

  FFF
 
For those of you interested, I bought the SF2 out of a short hibernation beggining of March. It had started hibernating mid January. In the mean time, clutch had been checked, primary changed, oil changed of course, fork oil changed, instrument holder ring changed having broken again, clutch cable changed, tuning and fitting of straight through exhaust pipes doing away with the under engine box. Very quickly, the engine started to stutter briefly accelerating mid range and would fluff cruising at constant throttle. This was of course attributed to the neccesity to rejet with the straight through pipes. So a whole load of experimentation with various jets folowed until the fracture of the weld of the collar at the head end of the stainless pipe before a long trip prompted me to put the old system back on. Strangely, the problems attributed to carburation with the new exhaust persisted.

Previous dismantling of float bowls to change jets had revealed rust dust coming from the tank due to it having been rinsed out with water the previous year to weld it. So that was why the engine would falter! Cure: treat the tank or put inline filters in.

Thursday evening, I thought I'd try one last thing. A finger under the cut out in the points cover revealed the usual drop of oil. Off with the cover and wipe the points clean with a rag soaked in acetone.
Rode to work Friday, all symptoms gone.  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

The seal behind the advance mechanism leaks. It always has done even if changed and it's not for nothing that later points covers have a cut out underneath to drain oil. I know the problem and identify it immediatly if the engine starts running lopsided or on one pot. Just whip the cover off, clean the points wth acetone if at home or petrol if on the run, and off we go.

This time, the fact that the symptoms appeared at certain revs having just changed the exhaust misled me.

Stay simple and back to basics. These big twins, at least for road use are not very sensitive to tuning, be it carbs or ignition.

Ciao
Paul
 
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