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

Lay underneath, and beside it for almost two days :o
Fitted starter clutch and chain ...... Just when I thought I had it square, those bloody rollers exited. There must be an easier way. Eventually and a few c@#ts later, it was together,  then the chain fitment. Bugger me, I needed three hands ....... But managed with two.

Hit the starter button and she turned over :D I want more, but will have to wait.


Fitted centre stand, so many things hitting!
Not now, some major rework was needed, spring placement was a bugger, but sorted it.
Foot flicking downer thingy was a full on brain fry, will now be the first thing to scrape on the left.
Anyway, all sorted now, and a breeze to get up onto the stand...... benefit.

Started on the alternator mounts, fabricated, fitted .... :o 7mm away from where it needs to be ..... Another set of mounts coming up.

Q: Will it be ready for the Concours?  (dunno)

 
Chased around the Black Isle in search of points for the ILOC Riders Challenge.  Bagged a ship, among other things- the Caribbean Princess, all 112000 tons of her- 2 points.  Indicator light in the dashboard went kaput.

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Nice one Reggie !

Had a great day - good meet at Banbury with a great collection of Laverdas and some other Italian stallions plus one beemer - sandwiches came free courtesy of the village hall  :D
 

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Did a hundred miles or so to Bodo, Norway, from my camp site in Rognan, nice enough day, nice enough roads.
    Why would you haul a trailer behind your bike? Ask one of the many at the Saltdal Bikers Rally I suppose, there were dozens of trailers, hauled by a variation of bikes, mainly Goldblings but a few Hardlies were a hauling' too.
    I called into a trackday at the Arctic Circle Raceway, http://www.acr.no/ (just south of the AC) looked to be a fine track to me, a local biker remarked it was the best in the country, all types of bikes cutting around it, on a nice warm sunny day.
  Got to keep your head on a swivel for the Cops when spinning along though, my pal got nabbed at the ton on national speed limit road in 2002, ?1000 from his visa card, "thank you Officer and have a nice day"  :o
 
colected the engine for my Motoplast yesterday, now waiting for some other parts to put Mikunis on the bike to be able to construct an airbox/tank unit...
 
Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond said:
Nice one Reggie !

Had a great day - good meet at Banbury with a great collection of Laverdas and some other Italian stallions plus one beemer - sandwiches came free courtesy of the village hall  :D
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Pic one looks like to 500 needed a big rest after keeping up with its big brothers.  :D
 
Fixed the indicator idiot light bulb in the dashboard.  What a pain.

Got me thinking about LEDs- the idiot light bulbs and especially the back illumination on my brand new clocks are a bit dim (as they were on the old ones) - is fitting LEDs a worthwhile upgrade?
 
YES! make sure you do take bulbs with the right brightness... to much and you get blinded at night, to less and you won't see it in daylight... Can't tell what is the right amount though, but there are some calculators online to compare standard bulb watt to Lumen to LED Lumen...
 
I have LEDS on the GT for permanent side light,clocks and indicators, but get it right some LEDs just pack up with vibration believe it or not,was a bit trial and error,but the flat yellow panel ones seem to be the best.
 
Yeah, have that sort as a pilot light- nice blue tint and a lot brighter than standard.  Maybe finding that type to replace the tiny bulbs in the RGS's instruments might be trickier.
 
Swopped the 15 mm brake master clinder on the RGS for a rebuilt 14mm one.
Then took the bike for a run down the country lanes.
Although radar said there was no rain around, it did...
Big improvement in lever pressure and brake feel.
Recommended mod!

Steve
 
Dellortoman said:
Jedzo, I miss your intelligent, if occasionally offbeat, crypto and amusing contributions to this illustrious forum. Please stay in touch occasionally. Your introductory post (some years ago) is still the best I've seen. I suspect you have hidden depths.

If you have something to say, just say it.

BTW, I've never set foot in NZ. I found the Greymouth cranes by devious means.

Cheers,
Cam
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Ah Cam, thank you for your kind thoughts. Anyone experienced at motorcycling on the Apple Isle would be immediately familiar with motorcycling in New Zealand - especially around the coasts and the North Island. The South Island has it's added alpine environment as well.

I have retired to Runanga on the South Island's West Coast just North of Greymouth. Runanga is a small town of about 1,100 souls on Highway 6 - the Great Coast Road - between Greymouth and Westport. Highway 6 runs for 1,100 kms along the West Coast from the bottom to the top of the South Island and looks like this just 3 miles up the road from home;

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I spend my days applying my motorcycle bodgering skills to a 100 year old coal miners villa on 1/2 an acre I bought lock, stock & barrel for 2 1/2 years of average Sydney rent - and the same 7 old motorcycles I had in Sydney. 3 are already on the road here - the Laverda, Commando and Spitfire. The Bonneville will also go on in the next week or so.

Only 4 will be road registered in NZ. Excluding the shipping, customs and agricultural inspection charges to get them into the country in the first place it's $300 to initially get them certified and registered then under $100 per year on account of their age - a quarter of the NSW annual cost. 2 cannot go on the road because I have no evidence of their last place of registration, only a receipt of purchase which is not enough for the authorities here. It doesn't matter with the little Daytona as that is going to get stripped of all it's electrics and road gear, a magneto added, geared down for acceleration then entered each year in the annual Greymouth street races in the classic section. I suspect it will go quite well. I won't be riding it though, Ill leave that for a young fella.

The Enfield Indian cannot go on the road either so I shall just continue to tinker with it and wonder aloud at British motorcycle engineering of the late 50's.

And the soulless bastard - the 650 Benelli Tornado - will never go on the road while I own it - even though it can - on account of my dislike of it. But I won't sell it either.

It's taken a bit to get me over and settled - seven bikes and 20 years of other stuff across the Tasman - but it is all done now and life is being re-established where I want to be without any real regrets. I usually get out on a bike at least 2-3 times a week even in winter. Being coastal it's never that cold - but it can be wet. On Sunday there is the mid winter run with the ungrown men of the West Coast Classic Motorcycle club to the legendary Kokatahi pub. The Spitfire will make that particular journey. If I strike something interesting while out on the Laverda I will stick it on here.

I have no idea if there are any classic era Laverdas running around in NZ or even any kiwi forum members but I did find one bike of interest on Trademe  - the Kiwi equivalent of eBay here at the moment, and that was this one;

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1100198952

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46KZK is my old Jota. I was the second owner of it and bought it 30 years ago. I had it for more than a decade before selling it to a mate. It is the one I talked about in that first forum post I did. I was right chuffed to see it still on the road but have no desire to own it again. I'm a dedicated 750 twin man.

I have kept a blog going for a few years now on all the riding and bodgering but my feeble attempts pale against the true craftsmen members of the Laverda Forum. Enthusiasm, bodgery and bluster outweighing training, skill and experience 100-1. But if anyone is interested, here is the last post from a few weeks ago;

http://jedzo.blogspot.co.nz/2016/06/motorcycle-coal-journeys-3-pike-river.html

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I'll be around, I have no intention of pegging off yet - there's too much motorcycling to be done.

:D



 
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