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

2volts said:
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nearly done...

pete
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Nicely set up workshop there and the bike is also looking the goods
 
Hmm that would make three Jota's there at the one time then...

Ian how the hell do you know Tim Edwards then hmm.. did you work at the Casino ?
 
Ian how the hell do you know Tim Edwards then hmm.. did you work at the Casino ?
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I've never been to Darwin.
Meet Tim through the Norton club in Adelaide,  the photo came from Phil [Katana] who I worked with for a few years in Adelaide Hills.



 
Interesting yes Tim moved to Adelaide and last I heard he had swapped that lovely 1980 Jota for a dirty old Norton ended up going to the UK some time after that........ interesting his brother was named Phil who was also big into Nortons but maybe he had a Katana.. ( though a friend of Phils called spud owned a 3C which was the inspiration for my mate to buy his Jota which then meant I bought my 3CL which I traded for the Jota.) he ended up working in the UK as a bike mechanic and I heard he had a fairly bad accident a few years back.

I must contact Tim's niece one day and find out what happened to him....

Small world this Laverda one is............................................
 
chrisk said:
Opened my belated birthday and Father's Day presents ......  :o two Laverda T shirts, never seen the designs before, and don't know where they came from. Nice thought though.  :D
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(needpics) come on show us your shirts then as now you have got our attention ....
 
Another 200km blast through the hills. That Redax engine just hums. Pulls like a schoolboy from low down as well.  :D :D :D
 
Had an eventful ride down to Chester over the weekend.  Had total electrical failure on the M6 on Friday about 40 miles short of my destination.  Not a good place for a flame out- that road is mad on Friday. 

Called recovery and got it into the trailer- wiggled wires and it started again.  ::) Next thing we heard screeching tyres and a massive bang- someone must have been paying more attention to us on the hard shoulder than their driving and smashed into another car.  No one seriously hurt, but two cars destroyed and plastic and glass everywhere.

The recovery man was calling the police and looking after the drivers so I decided to press on, but a few miles down the road it went again.  I was in a free recovery area so they took me to a services where I checked in to a room and sulked.

By now I realised that the battery was dead- thought it had lost a cell, so I went off in a taxi and got another.  Fitted it and bingo! we're off again.

Got to Chester and decided it would be wise to check the charging system- local bike shop lent me a meter- and buggered if it wasn't putting out 18V or so.  My Odyssey battery had been fried.

More chasing round got me a new reg/rec, couple of calls to Keith cos the wires were slightly different and all wired in.  Not how I'd planned to spend my day.  At least I hadn't ridden enough to fry the new battery.

Anyway, it was fine for the 10 hour ride back yesterday- funny how the weak link was a Japanese regulator, and the last time it was a German ignition.

1378km covered plus about 15 in a recovery vehicle. ::)
 
Yeah, found a reg/rec off a ZZR250.  Need to elongate a hole in the mounting plate to bolt it in properly and of course will have to solder the wires I twisted together, but was fairly straightforward.  Keith put me right on the cables- the wires were different to the ones on the bike, but it seems fine now.  Bloody nightmare and I missed a night on the lash with the lads, never mind the cost of the parts etc.
 
Ran a 50 mile Italian tune up yesterday on the SF2. 55 degree weather, dry, sunny roads. I still have this lazy throttle return, I really don't think its the slides but there seems to be a lack of uptake in the last "eighth" of a turn before closing. It doenst see that the throttle is still open, its just a bit of slack? So maybe there is some kind of adjustment that can be made to tighten this up at the carbs, like the cables have stretched a little bit. The carbs are working perfectly with the pumpers, lots of fun up in the 6k range and nice howl between gear changes. Ran very well. Next is to replace the air filter, it still had the original and I have a new one from Wolfie that I forgot I had. Had a few modern sport bikers swarm me at a stoplight admiring the bike. Good times. :D
 
I flushed the brake and clutch lines on the Mirage, filled up with non-alcohol fuel, and added fuel stabilizer in preparation for her Winter nap. She'll rest until Spring, 2017.
 
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