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

Grant said:
Yes, it now has GSXR wheels etc as these were donated to 007.
The project name is JYD, or junk yard dog.
The idea at the moment is to make it as light as economically possible (this is not a big budget job) and as non-standard as possible.
If it gets down to 200kg that would be great, lower even better but if it ends up at 210 or 215 I can live with that.
Then again, if someone likes it and proposes to buy it the direction of the project could easily change.
It will be for sale after completion anyway.
I just like doing non-standard projects after so many standard ones on a daily basis.
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Every duty should have a freestyle from time to time, in particular as with JYD nothing was in the original state anyway (IIRC).
Will JYD get the black engine you are just preparing (I saw pictures on flickr) ..?

 
made my 3 hill tour wih my wife Eva and my RGS today in the south of Kassel, Stock, Eisenberg, Kn?llk?pfchen, almost empty roads and good conditions, made 200 k in 3 hours. Nice day.
 

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Last week I was driving through my local forest road. Coming toward me a 1000 or 1200 triple  :o

It had the brightest gold wheels, that stood out like dogs balls. I wonder who and what that was?
 
chrisk said:
Last week I was driving through my local forest road. Coming toward me a 1000 or 1200 triple  :o

It had the brightest gold wheels, that stood out like dogs balls. I wonder who and what that was?
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Probably a mirage.

bazzee
 
chrisk said:
Last week I was driving through my local forest road. Coming toward me a 1000 or 1200 triple  :o

It had the brightest gold wheels, that stood out like dogs balls. I wonder who and what that was?
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black bike with gold wheels ?
Robbie Adam's triple

 
andre g said:
made my 3 hill tour wih my wife Eva and my RGS today in the south of Kassel, Stock, Eisenberg, Kn?llk?pfchen, almost empty roads and good conditions, made 200 k in 3 hours. Nice day.
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At last, an RGS with a comfortable seat.
 
Just a personal opinion about aesthetics but its surprising to me just how strong an impact having wheels a bit off the correct colour is to me. I cannot remember who but someone has this in Sydney as well. It can be limiting when your powder coating bits, not so many colour choices out there in power.
 
?Andre, tell Eva she would be more comfortable on the back, if she put the footrests down.?

I thougt Chris, somebody would see it- Eva likes to make some gymnastics when I? m riding. The footrests would limit her free movements.


the photo was from an other trip, but the thread was so empty without photo.

Front wheel is gold under the silver paint, it was painted before I bought it, back wheel is Oscam SFC.

Andre
 
Popped down to the Hollyville Cafe.
Things are not quite back to pre-covid-19 levels. ('Today' and 'What it's usually like' photo's)
 

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I went for my first ride on the Jota 120 in yonks!
It all went well until a truck cut me up just outside Dover (foreign truck naturally - they have no fear). I pressed the horn and got 'ich' 'ich'. That's not going to put the fear of God up him is it?
So I got home and tried again - same! Got the multimeter out and 12.44 volts on both sets of connections. Disconnected the right horn and the left works, tried the opposite and nothing!  Right horn must be shagged, so out of interest swapped right horn to left, bloody works! Must be the RH wires, but they have voltage? So put it all back where it came from and everything works every time.
That was a fun hour (especially for the neighbours).
Don't you just love motorcycle electrics?
 
SimonR501 said:
Disconnected the right horn and the left works, tried the opposite and nothing!  Right horn must be shagged, so out of interest swapped right horn to left, bloody works! Must be the RH wires, but they have voltage? So put it all back where it came from and everything works every time.
That was a fun hour (especially for the neighbours).
Don't you just love motorcycle electrics?
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First fix, I usually use, on recalcitrant horns is a hide mallet. Percussive maintenance is, I believe, the technical term.
While pushing the horn button, sharply tap, repeatedly, on the edge face of the horn. this, more often than not, encourages them to behave correctly.
 
SimonR501 said:
I went for my first ride on the Jota 120 in yonks!
It all went well until a truck cut me up just outside Dover (foreign truck naturally - they have no fear). I pressed the horn and got 'ich' 'ich'. That's not going to put the fear of God up him is it?
So I got home and tried again - same! Got the multimeter out and 12.44 volts on both sets of connections. Disconnected the right horn and the left works, tried the opposite and nothing!  Right horn must be shagged, so out of interest swapped right horn to left, bloody works! Must be the RH wires, but they have voltage? So put it all back where it came from and everything works every time.
That was a fun hour (especially for the neighbours).
Don't you just love motorcycle electrics?
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Simon check the  contact faces on the fuse are clean, especially since the bike has not been used for some time. The fact the one horn worked when you disconnected the other suggests the current draw for two horns was insufficient across the fuse. Encountered the same problem with the RGS last year and this was the root cause.

 
Maybe its the push button, clean it and take care for contact, there is a small spring which should not be corroded, I think
 
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