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

Took SeFFie for a leisurely putt up the mountain to the Teahouse.
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Winter??  Yea right, way too damned busy.  FFS it's a week day!  ???
The weekend will be madness as usual.  Oh to be back riding in the '70s
  cheers,  grumpy old Marko,  in search of another mountain
 
Dellortoman said:
I didn't know you guys had a mountain.
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Their "mountains" are better than ours. Mind you we call ours hills and even that is an exaggeration.  :LOL:
 
markQLD said:
Took SeFFie for a leisurely putt up the mountain to the Teahouse.
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Winter??  Yea right, way too damned busy.  FFS it's a week day!  ???
The weekend will be madness as usual.  Oh to be back riding in the '70s
  cheers,  grumpy old Marko,  in search of another mountain
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That's weird, i didn't hear the phone ring.....
 
marko,marko,come and share mine-reckon I did a pb on Lindsay Wednesday on the young blokes supercorsa equipped raptor-stopped for a smoke and saw 1 car-plus me barmaid had a cold gold waiting as i walked in to the rathy
 
Rode my 180 Jota to Olivers Mount Scarborough UK. It was the Barry Sheene race festival. Lots of former stars there, Jim Redman, Phil Read, Steve Parish. I started going there in 1976 so celebrating 40 years attendance. My, how times have changed. More spectators in cars than bikes. I believe my Laverda was the sole example there. 40 years ago there would have been a couple of dozen to choose from. It's still a great circuit. Looking at the lap times now it's amazing how they used to ride bikes like Laverdas on circuits like that. Still, some things are the same as they always were, it bloody well rained again! Keeping on riding your Laverdas, they are meant to be on the road getting some miles under their wheels.
 
pjcheeseman said:
Rode my 180 Jota to Olivers Mount Scarborough UK. It was the Barry Sheene race festival. Lots of former stars there, Jim Redman, Phil Read, Steve Parish. I started going there in 1976 so celebrating 40 years attendance. My, how times have changed. More spectators in cars than bikes. I believe my Laverda was the sole example there. 40 years ago there would have been a couple of dozen to choose from. It's still a great circuit. Looking at the lap times now it's amazing how they used to ride bikes like Laverdas on circuits like that. Still, some things are the same as they always were, it bloody well rained again! Keeping on riding your Laverdas, they are meant to be on the road getting some miles under their wheels.
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Oddly enough we probably saw you, if it was you wearing an orange Laverda T shirt.  We were in a car today and yesterday.  Cars are great.
 
Resurrected the Jota from its long sleep. Put a battery in it and some fresh petrol and fired it up (it hasn't been ridden since well before Easter). It started easily and made a nice Jota noise. I was intending to take it for a ride, but my artificial knee protested a little too much at being bent onto the rearset pegs, so I wheeled the bike back into the shed and parked it again. This knee business is getting a bit tedious. I'm OK on bikes with non-rearset, but most of my bikes have a more sporty riding position. I'll try again in another month ...
 
Dellortoman said:
Resurrected the Jota from its long sleep. Put a battery in it and some fresh petrol and fired it up (it hasn't been ridden since well before Easter). It started easily and made a nice Jota noise. I was intending to take it for a ride, but my artificial knee protested a little too much at being bent onto the rearset pegs, so I wheeled the bike back into the shed and parked it again. This knee business is getting a bit tedious. I'm OK on bikes with non-rearset, but most of my bikes have a more sporty riding position. I'll try again in another month ...
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Shame, but with that gummy knee I doubt you'll ever ride it again. Maybe you need to retire it to a nice home in Qld.  :D
 
Even with my real knee I get pain on a long,even short ride Cam. Thats the side with the snapped ACL. I added a 6mm alloy plate over the rear set plate and added a hole 30mm lower to bolt the peg on, you need to change the connector length a bit but its not hard. Thats with pivoting pegs. It does scrap but I need to know the bend and it does take some effit. At least I can do 400 and above k days without cramping up.
 
chrisk said:
Shame, but with that gummy knee I doubt you'll ever ride it again. Maybe you need to retire it to a nice home in Qld.  :D
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Thank you for your suggestion Chris. The inference I take from it is that you'd be willing to provide a home for the bike. Maybe if you saw it you'd be less keen. It goes OK but is a bit of a rough old thing with plenty of patina and the odd oil leak. It wouldn't go well with your OCD  :D
 
The experience inspired me to put the original footrests back on the Guzzi LeMans. The Guzzi's rearsets were a bit more extreme than those on the Jota. I'd do the same with the Jota but unfortunately, I no longer have the Jota's original (non-rearset) footrests and pedals. I donated them to some bloke I met at Broadford a few years ago who has an old 3C project.  ::)

PS: Is anyone interested in a set of Tarozzi rearsets for a Guzzi LM1 or LM2. Complete with all the linkage bits to make it a bolt-on kit. Perfect condition, hardly been used and have never touched the road.
 
PS: Is anyone interested in a set of Tarozzi rearsets for a Guzzi LM1 or LM2. Complete with all the linkage bits to make it a bolt-on kit. Perfect condition, hardly been used and have never touched the road.
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You need my Rear Sets ;o)
 
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