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

received a cool new set of rear sets for my 79 1200 from Wolfgang today to fit the rear sets with the bikes left side shift conversion, right side brake.

brutally hot here, heat warnings, 34 Celsius, garage even hotter. I do not do well in this sort of heat. Left the unpacked box of parts on the work bench and have gone to have a beer to wait for evening and temps to cool down somewhat hopefully.

Calgary Stampede starts in the morning, Friday July 7, 2017.

Paul LeClair
 
Paul LeClair said:
received a cool new set of rear sets for my 79 1200 from Wolfgang today to fit the rear sets with the bikes left side shift conversion, right side brake.

brutally hot here, heat warnings, 34 Celsius, garage even hotter. I do not do well in this sort of heat. Left the unpacked box of parts on the work bench and have gone to have a beer to wait for evening and temps to cool down somewhat hopefully.

Calgary Stampede starts in the morning, Friday July 7, 2017.

Paul LeClair
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I found that the bolts supplied with his kit were a bit short when mounting with the standard cast plates when I did a test fit. The right was particularly short with only 10mm of thread inside the footpeg, left had 20mm. I got a 100mm bolt for the right side and 90mm for the left which should sort it. Also the allen heads don't leave enough room for tightening with the swingarm fitted and in "neutral" position and the right side head interferes with the chain guard mount bolt head so I got hex heads on the replacements.
 
Took old faithful out today to play with some what ended up a bunch of V twins, was a bit nip and pilly at the start but hey that is what thermals are for.  There was even a drummer which turned up... sadly not a triple drummer though note to self to talk to MT he has too many for one bloke.

The boys from the southern suburbs and the gong showed me a new ( well I cant remember the last time had been on it ) way to get back to Sydney... I left them at Appin only to find the road blocked by a fairly major accident.. however just as was thinking do I turn round or not the cops started waving the cars into a property. A couple of Highly Dangerous riders with sit up and beg bars turned round at the site of that and came along side me and said hey they are going to send you through a dirt paddock, I shrugged and said my bike had agricultural heritage so a bit of dirt wont worry it...  :o god and they were riding tractors ( well they sure as hell sounded like them

Now that the Corsa is running so great time to get started on the new carbs for it  :o
 

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Davo said:
I found that the bolts supplied with his kit were a bit short when mounting with the standard cast plates when I did a test fit. The right was particularly short with only 10mm of thread inside the footpeg, left had 20mm. I got a 100mm bolt for the right side and 90mm for the left which should sort it. Also the allen heads don't leave enough room for tightening with the swingarm fitted and in "neutral" position and the right side head interferes with the chain guard mount bolt head so I got hex heads on the replacements.
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Hi Davo

I now have the left side installed, but of a fiddle but doable, clever engineers at Tarotzzi (sp?), almost infinite adjustment in the assemblies, really well done.

On the right side, ran into the same issue as you did, the front chain guard mount bolt interferes with the install, just got back from picking up some alternative bolts with shallower heads, going to forge ahead with the right side install now.......

Paul LeClair
 
So last week i met up with another Laverda owner and today we both headed out for a ride...........good to see two classic laverda's parked up together and causing quite a stir. :)



 
I drove 200 miles through the first (torrential) rain in a month and bought my first Laverda, is what I did!

New owner of a '79 silver Jota

 

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Hello dja982 - it's the same 1000*5493* as sold by Poffer through the forum here back in 2013 - but I now see it's listed on the Laverdamania registry as a '77, so you are quite right.

However it was first registered in the UK in '79
 
All Breganzies will take a fairing. I do love my FIXED Rickman leg extension 3/4. Keeps jeans from buffeting in the wind and dry in showers except for the end of your toes.

A fabricated fairing may weigh as much as 5 lbs but you compensate more in weight by lightening the exhaust.  Then you are into Jetting Carbs.
 
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