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

You know you are getting old when you have more dead mates than live ones.

Bummer of a month Cam, hang in there.
 
redax5 said:
you need to go racing to take your mind off life matters
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Didn't someone say "racing is life, eveything in between is waiting" or words to that effect? I think it may have been Steve McQueen.

Davo said:
You know you are getting old when you have more dead mates than live ones.
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Still got a few live mates left. I feel I should make an effort to spend more time with them and enjoy their company while we're still above ground. One of my regrets is that I didn't spend more time with my brother in recent years. He was living in country Victoria, which is a bit of a trek from Tassie, but it's not as if it's in another galaxy. I could have visited him way more often than I did. On one recent occassion I actually drove through his town (Wangaratta) but was in a hurry to get to Melbourne for some stuid reason, so didn't stop for a visit. I was thinking "he's not going anywhere, I'll visit next month, or next year ... ".  I'm not feeling too good about that now.

There's a moral here: Cherish those close to you, and don't be in too much of a hurry to spend time with them. You never know who is going to be the next to fall off the perch.

Cam
 
Broke clutch cable 50k from home in Sunshine Coast Hinterland this morning. Lucky for me I have a Spare Clutch & Accelerator cable running under the tank and seat of the Jota. 20 minute job on the side of the road, then enjoyed the rest of the ride, sweet :-* !!
 
Have been chasing electrons to the rear light of the SF2 for weeks. Days are getting shorter and I need light on a bike used almost daily.
When the rear light went out, but not the brake light, I at first changed the bulb to no avail. Then took the voltmeter out, no feed to either rear light or under tank spaghetti junction.
Last weekend I tested the left hand switch gear: feed to rear light ok.
Today, I opened up the sheath from switchgear to spaghetti junction.
There is a graft of the japanese switch gear unto the italian wiring about 80cm from the switch gear. Simple metal clips join the 2 harnesses. The japanese wiring is a much smaller cross section than the italian one and the feed to the rear light had melted on the japanese side.
Will put a new wire in, a new sheath over the coming days and will ultimately replace the whole harness.

Ciao
Paul
 
Even though the jap wiring is thinner it should have coped with the tail lights easily, perhaps a short circuit somewhere as well? Or that should have taken the fuse out as well. A bit odd...
 
Paul Marx said:
Have been chasing electrons to the rear light of the SF2 for weeks. Days are getting shorter and I need light on a bike used almost daily.
When the rear light went out, but not the brake light, I at first changed the bulb to no avail. Then took the voltmeter out, no feed to either rear light or under tank spaghetti junction.
Last weekend I tested the left hand switch gear: feed to rear light ok.
Today, I opened up the sheath from switchgear to spaghetti junction.
There is a graft of the japanese switch gear unto the italian wiring about 80cm from the switch gear. Simple metal clips join the 2 harnesses. The japanese wiring is a much smaller cross section than the italian one and the feed to the rear light had melted on the japanese side.
Will put a new wire in, a new sheath over the coming days and will ultimately repalce the whole harness.

Ciao
Paul
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Hey Paul,

Have you changed the Ignition switch recently?  I had to change mine, then the rear tail light would not work, brake light was fine etc, same symptoms as you described. 

the after market key switch does not bridge the Earth in the ON position like the Original does.  It only seemed to effect the tail light? Had something to do with the original PARK light position.    Cant remember exact what I did now, but I recall joining the Earth wire to something in the headlight.  All good now!!

 
Had this key switch issue on my Pantah, what I have now is Ignition on also has the tail light and dash lights on at the same time. Its to do with power being turned on to 1 more wire on Ignition than the older key switches activating the park system and Ignition system together .I just live with it,not rewiring the bike to fix it. Its better than having the old switch cut all power with a wiggle of the key.
 
Nope, haven't changed ignition switch. Wiring was tampered with early on in the machine's life. I bought it with 20 000 km on the clock and opening the sheath yesterday revealed it had already been tampered with. Diode which avoids rear light coming on in the park position had been removed as well.
There is no obvious short, I've followed the wire from rear light to left hand switch.
Paul
 
Fixed the Jota's gearshift.
This involved a lot of spring bending, as the new spring was sufficiently far out of whack that the eccentric adjuster couldn't handle it.
And, of course, the bloody thing bit me. Big jagged hole in the finger. :-X
Never mind, it all works now...

Steve
 
stevepm2011 said:
Fixed the Jota's gearshift.
This involved a lot of spring bending, as the new spring was sufficiently far out of whack that the eccentric adjuster couldn't handle it.
And, of course, the bloody thing bit me. Big jagged hole in the finger. :-X
Never mind, it all works now...

Steve
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Steve,

Did you "cross" the legs of the spring?  This would require a lot of bending to eliminate lever play.  The legs should be more or less parallel, should end up with about 0.5mm or less slack at the gear shift segment thingy before spring pressure is applied.

The spring isn't as vicious if installed correctly!

piet
 
Piet,

No, the spring was installed correctly, with legs parallel and not crossed.
But it was way off the old one (which worked fine!) in terms of shape.
The legs came out at strange angles.
Once bent to the same dimensions, it was OK.
But the bugger still bit me... :-X
I made the mistake if using my finger to push it off the pin.
Twang!!
Ouch!

Steve

 
left the Lavs at home and went to Dismaland, superb.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=images+dismaland&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=OwYFVuOuDIOmU87ut9AG
 
for Westons local economy somersets local council says,if accurate very good for a run down seaside town.  entrance was ?3,  150,000 visitors
 
Gave the old thing a much deserved wash and a service after our European adventure. Bike ran lovely all trip. We covered 4550kms in total, Down to Portsmouth via Salisbury for a quick oil change and to pick up my mate Neil on his 1200 and caught the boat to Santander... force 12 gales and a 10 metre swell in the bay of Biscay made for a shit awful crossing, not much of a nautical type at the best of times but that was bloody awful, kept my dinner down but only by lying very still. Bit of damage to the bikes caused by them moving around on the ferry, Neil got his fairing bust and I got a dented silencer courtesy of a seasick Honda Daffodil falling on my bike. Cahnts.
1st day in Spain it becomes apparent Neil needs a reg/rec, found something suitable in a small bike shop near Bilbao and fitted it. Up over the Pyrenees into Saint-Jean-de-Luz in France for the night. Next day we headed for the Mediterranean coast via some excellent mountain roads, stopped at Lourdes for lunch and salvation... then pressed on to a little seaside resort near Beziers for dinner and a hotel. Saturday saw a shorter ride to La Ciotat where we checked in to our hotel then rode up to Paul Ricard for the Classic Bol d' or only to find we had missed it, had been ran on the Friday... oh well, had a mooch round the circuit for a bit, very busy but not much there to interest me reminded me in fact of just how much I dislike bike shows.. We decided over dinner that there was little point in hanging around for another day so in the morning we headed off for Grasse at the bottom of Route Napoleon. An epic days riding followed, what a fantastic road. Ended up in Grenoble for the night had a bath then got good and drunk. We split up the next day Neils boat home was from Caen and mine from IJmuden. I headed for Strasbourg via Besan?on. Nice town Strasbourg. Next day I crossed into Germany spent the morning hooning round some phenomenal roads in the black forest until the rain started I then headed for Mannheim and a look at the technical museum, turned out the museum I actually wanted to see was Sinsheim. Never mind, pissing down when I got out and splashed North to Piets place, never been to Piets place when it isn't raining... From Piets up to IJmuden for my boat to Newcastle, got good and drunk with an Irish tattoo artist who had just signed up for the French foreign legion, top looney. Good thrash up the A68 in the morning, popped in to see my folks for a hello and a bacon roll then more torrential rain along the entire length of the M8 was a fine welcome home. Sprang the dog out of jail and had a large G+T. Top ride, feeling the love for my old 3c.  :D

  Up in the mountains.
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  RGS Racer at the Bol
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  Fantastic Nougier 175 racer
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  Somewhere on the Route Napoleon
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  Strasbourg
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  High up in the Black Forrest, just before the rains came..
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  Back to work now.

  Keith

 
 
Oh, I thought you planned to go via Italy and Austria... Otherwise I would have proposed you to take the - Route de Grandes Alpes - which runs from the Meditaranian see to lake Geneva. 640 km over 14 mountain passes with the highest being almost 2800 meters.

The RGS was entered by the French Laverda Club. I think they were 11th overall in front of several Goudier Kawas etc.

Your 3c is high upon my wishlist, what a stunning bike!

Cheers
Jeroen

 
 
Italy and Austria had featured in plan A but some incoming foul weather and too much to do back here decided me to leave it for another trip, I do like riding in the mountains.


    Keith
 
Some adventure - I like the spontaneity of how you planned  :D getting drunk with good company is as much as a stress buster as anything ( well there are things I guess that should remain secret)  - couldn't hack that boat trip - get seasick on a rowing boat on the river - reduced to going on the fast ferry anywhere and sitting at the back

that racer looks purrfect !  :P
 
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