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

I had one on my 3C for a while, bought from Eades. I cut the bottom out of mine and jacked it up as high as I could and reglassed it. Ended up maybe 75mm higher, saved my back a bit, I love the Cico ones a lot and it was as close to that as I could find. Not as curvy as the Cico, not that keen on the under the front wheel bit fitting the bottom half. Mine in now an SS bevel. Its great to see one on a bike again, dangerous colour that black
 
Mmmmm. Love those 800 triples. Triumph have uprated their Street Triple to 765cc as well. Very tempting but not as sexy as the MV.
 
Just got back from a 4 day run on the Silver Jota inc the Great Alpine Road, Broadford on Friday seeing the mighty RGS getting its final tweaks before the Barry, was fantastic to see a father passing on his knowledge to his son ........oh and even the Silver Jota kicked in to lend a hand and we did have a work place health and safety office ( circa Rivet counter ) looking on and assisting with his vast insights .
then was lucky enough to visit Laverda Central, Torquay oh and yes we drunk some beers and some more beers too.
Then as we had some front end issues with the race bike ( and no Vince to provide guideance we soldiered on regardless ) this and  some other reasons meant me not leaving yesterday, Though did get to have an awesome dinner cooked by Deb last night. All this
just meant had to do the 625 mile in one 10 hour stint. Door to door the mighty Silver Jota which ran like a swiss watch even though the dopey owner had forgot to lube the chain... must have been reading another thread.
Now I do have a couple of perfectly good touring bikes in the fleet but well not sure if they could have done better though a fairing might have been good in all the wind and Melbourne cold and rain.
Next time will take the RGS I promise.

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Brett the best fix I have found with Cartridge Emulators, and thats not chucking them away, is backing off the Emulator spring from the recommended 3 turns of preload to 2 turns. At 3 turns there way to harsh and that's with my weight. Much more progressive at 2 turns. The ones in the 38mm Maz forks on the Pantah are going there this week. Also check it has 2  7/64 ths high-speed compression holes as well, the older ones came with 1 hole.
 
Just one problem no emulators there... just a nice set of stock RGS oops Jota Marzocchi's on this little black betty.. all sorted now
 
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