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

John Leonard introduced me to a mate of his called Lavarda in Breganze about 10 years ago. Nice guy, had a couple of boozy sessions with him. He said the reason for the different spelling of his name was because of some kind of disagreement and subsequent rift in the family a few generations back. One side of the family (dunno which) changed the spelling of their surname to dissociate themselves from the other side.
 
Have some friends from Un Zud here at the moment so popped over to Badachro on the west coast for lunch today.  Car only seats four so I volunteered to take the bike, generous soul that I am.  Bit cloudy compared to the last week or so, but a good 250km spank.  Bike is running very well.

Very flat light so had to set the camera to 'MAD'...

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Finally got pissed off enough with the Corsa cold fouling plugs so decided to do something about it once and for all.
Pulled off the TEK coils and replaced them with Dyna mini coils which have been sitting on the shelf for ages... the new set of original pickups which were on another shelf, a new set of Nology Silver plugs and Silicon leads with new caps.
Found that the empty space on the shelf now was a nice place to put the series 1 Witt which I removed from the old chap and fitted an Ignitech box in place on the bike.
Now there is a nice fat spark when cranking and it fired right up and no plug fouling got to be happy with that me thought.

Played around a bit with the mapping then curiosity got the better of me so on with the helmet and boots off for a spin ... faark nearly forgot about double demits as was having so much fun runs clean right up to the 8500 Red line I set it at... that engine just loves to rev and rev and rev now got it really hot and no issues... ..........bloody transformed now to fix the clutch..

Got back home fiddled with the mixture screws a tad and the thing now holds a nice steady 800 rpm idle...



 
Couple of hundred miles round trip from Devon to meet the ILOC Banbury meet, great ride with Alan  on the 1200s.Foggy start and then an Indian summers day, and I know my headlamp is searching for my keys ;)
 

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Nice, sunny Autumn day in Nordrhein-Westfalen, so I took the RGS for a run, having backed the idle screws out 1/4 turn, in an attempt to cure the surging at small throttle openings.
The first 100 km were Autobahn, and I was running late, so mostly 160 - 180 km/h. (Or whatever 6000 RPM in top equates to)
The way back I wasn't in a hurry, so went cross-country. Nice sweeping A and B roads, RGS natural element.
The surging is almost completely gone, but need to reset the idle.
And fix the indicators...
Nevertheless, a good ride and very happy.

Steve

 
Spent some time today getting my head around what the Fatlas 750 project needs.
I have a new loom but it's obvious now that it's not for this model so I will have to make one from scratch. No biggie, but an added hassle.
Connected up a one into 2 throttle cable and fitted adaptors to the carbs for a cable choke instead of toggle flap thingies, one of which was unreachable when everything was bolted back to the bike.
Some bits going for painting and some bits going for plating.
Poco a poco.
 
Wanted to go and ride, but a MTB off last weekend has left me with a badly sprained clutch side wrist, plus a few scrapes!! Instead I did a bit of garage tinkering, replaced a few tatty fasteners, general run around the bike checking for loose nuts n bolts (only a 1,000 miles post rebuild). Satisfying fw hours out in the sun!
 
Had fitted some michelin pilot activs on the 3cl as the 20 yr. old pirellis are well past it. Yet to go for a blast.
The local motorcycle shop were the cheapest in price for the v rated michelins, they said the old pirellis were a nightmare to remove as they were so hard!
Wellsy
 
Wellsy said:
Had fitted some michelin pilot activs on the 3cl as the 20 yr. old pirellis are well past it. Yet to go for a blast.
The local motorcycle shop were the cheapest in price for the v rated michelins, they said the old pirellis were a nightmare to remove as they were so hard!
Wellsy
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My second Triple (my first Jota) bought in a tatty state many years ago off a sidecar racer in rural Leicestershire, had rock hard worn out Phantoms on the small flange wheels; could I get them off?
No, took the wheels to local tyre dealer, even his bead breaker wouldn't do it. I got home stumped, and sat having a cuppa, when one of my pals came round (John RIP my riding buddy).
He came up with the ploy of putting the wheels on the grass and running petrol on the bead rim area.
We did this, and after an hours soak ended up with the tyre in a big vice, and eventually broke the bead/rim seal, it was effectively glued to the rim, and the petrol dissolved the join and the ancient hard rubber. Worst tyre removal I've ever had!

 
Probably a bit boring but changed the oil on my 81 Jota and fitted another rear tyre guessing it may be tyre number 26.
Went to pump the rear brake pedal and it went straight down and no matter how much pumping aarrrgghhh I new I should't have touched it.
 
The dual saddle ,on the SF2 being on its last legs, I put the 1 1/2 saddle with the small fiberglass compartement back on.
Looks nice.
Paul
 
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