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

Yes people due to peer pressure I washed argy! The bad news is while out doing so I noticed water dripping from the front of my car. There's a crack in the plastic top tank ggggrrrrr. Has anyone fixed one by maybe plastic welding or epoxy?

Anyway time to lavish argy with some polish. ..
 
Cleaned it 'cos there was still some salt around last time I was out.  Horrible job, now have to slather it in ACF50 and polish to bring up the finish so I don't have to wash it (apart from a quick sponge over the fairing) until the end of the season.
 
Cleaned & checked over the Mongrel for the weekend run over to Ullapool tomorrow morning. Started to make a back rack but got fed up, too nice a day for all that malarkey so went for a wee bimble round the back roads to scrub the tyres in. We'll see how the new tyres behave over the weekend. Plan is to come back via Durness on Sunday :o :o

Happy days!! 8)
 
Put the new rego label on the Corsa so I can put some more K's on it I guess...........still Laverda's were made to be ridden so what the hey.........
 
Well today apart from continuing on with building my early 3C I took the Alpino for a good workout.
As the Speedo is in miles per hour I ignorantly glanced at the trip meter and saw 30 so plenty of fuel on board forgetting that was miles not kms and took off with the taps wide open and that monty pipe howling away out the back, getting carried away in the moment I came up on a group of riders including a few Ducati monsters and decided the chase was on, so I clicked down a couple of cogs and using lots of revs blew them away thinking this is so good, a bit later  I dropped in to a place called the Martian a little pub in Deans Marsh, half a stubby later I watched the  plodders ride through town and gave them a cheeky wave.
A while later it was getting dark and cold so I best get going, only about 5 kms out of town and the bike started spluttering as though it was about to go onto reserve looking at the trip meter it was on about 85 thinking that the bike surely couldn't be on reserve it sure was, bloody hell now it's really dark and about 50 miles from any petrol station well it is amazing how far you can stretch a very limited supply of fuel if you try hard enough and ended up rolling into the petrol station.
How far do other 500 owners get out of their bikes????
 
Cleaned & checked over the Mongrel for the weekend run over to Ullapool tomorrow morning. Started to make a back rack but got fed up, too nice a day for all that malarkey so went for a wee bimble round the back roads to scrub the tyres in. We'll see how the new tyres behave over the weekend. Plan is to come back via Durness on Sunday :o :o

Happy days!!
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Oh man, I hope it's better on the road than it is here- it's a biblical downpour at the moment
 
Reggie it can biblicalyl pour all its likes as long as the sunshine comes in mid June he said selfishly - working on the Triumph today - changed the rear brake pads - encountered some corrosion and had to use a vice to move the floating part - hopefully its enough - need to have a little run as there is some binding - but these new pads are so thick  :(
 
Ha ha, well we'll see...

Strip that caliper down- a non sliding sliding caliper is a recipe for a wrecked disc!  Also, as I found out working with Keith, crap can get into the seal groove and cause the piston not to retract properly- it isn't much, but it's noticable once it's fixed.
 
Yes it was my intention to drive round the top via Durness....I had the pleasure of driving through the rain of biblical proportions.....after a thorough soaking it looks like the ignition is goosed....awaiting recovery....while my chum is enjoying my (modern) Triumph....feckfeckfeck.....at least the drive up Glenshee/Lecht yesterday was fun 😆
 
New Triumph pah - Managed to blue up the disc in 6 miles  :-X - went to the local dealer who did a sterling job of freeing the the piston - massive effort three of us - they said they had never seen one get that stuck before  :o had to file the pads to remove burnt bit
 
New Triumph pah - Managed to blue up the disc in 6 miles  :-X - went to the local dealer who did a sterling job of freeing the the piston - massive effort three of us - they said they had never seen one get that stuck before  :o had to file the pads to remove burnt bit
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(banghead)
 
Tank off a couple of times in the pissing rain...WD40 and a change of plugs made no difference.....hey ho...cut a long story short...bike is in Nairn to be trucked home Monday....joined the rest of the team in Ullapool, big choice of the moment is do I finish the run tomorrow in a Porsche 933 or Nissan 350z...on the basis of the weather forecast I won't be driving my triumph....every cloud has a silver lining
 
Looked at it longingly while working near it. Had a Guzzi riding mate over for dinner, rode his bike over with single disc front brake only functioning as his rear mastercyclinder was rubber ducked. He had a kit for it but no idea how to fit it especially as the instructions told him to remove a circlip to get the piston out and there was no circlip fitted.

Demonstrated the use of a short length of high tensile fencing wire and BP hammer as a removal tool and a ground down plumbing fitting as an installation punch. Bled his brakes with the vacuum and job done.
 
Rode down to Canungra with SeFFie for the HMCCQ show & swap
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& acquired another coffee mug that pleaded with me to take it back home with SeFFie.  ho-hum  ::)
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some more piccies
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/073ilj54ycoi3wx/AAAG_bedXqRXrlRW9KMyRnhHa
that Bert Flood Bultaco must have been insane at 152 mph !!  (245 km/h)
 
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