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

Swing arm bearings out ..had been upgraded in the past to needle rollers.  First one was a struggle .. Drift took out the inner race only , Dremmel to finish.  I applied much more heat  on the other until  the loctite /glue oozed out from behind the outer race..dropped out complete after
second whack. Ground off caliper mount lug. Will have to dry build later to find best spot for new torque arm.
New Hc pistons and tranny parts in post from Wolfgang
Redax  GSXR wheel spacer package arrived in LA..nearly home.
 
Put in a new battery. Had been playing with the Clover electronic reg after it stopped working from getting water in it on my hills trip, cleaned with some magic spray and brushed Deoxit D5 all over it and it was back on board. Lots of starts with amp and volt gauges connected. Next day - total dead battery. 12.7v until ignition turned on then .02v. Gel battery prob four years old. First time ever a battery just "died" on me, always before just replaced because they got weaker. Glad it didn't happen in the middle of Hardangervidda.
 
Tippie said:
Put in a new battery. Had been playing with the Clover electronic reg after it stopped working from getting water in it on my hills trip, cleaned with some magic spray and brushed Deoxit D5 all over it and it was back on board. Lots of starts with amp and volt gauges connected. Next day - total dead battery. 12.7v until ignition turned on then .02v. Gel battery prob four years old. First time ever a battery just "died" on me, always before just replaced because they got weaker. Glad it didn't happen in the middle of Hardangervidda.

750 will run with a dead battery. No electric start of course and it'll die at low revs, but as long as the dynamo gives, it'll run.
Unless you're using electronic ignition I suppose.

Paul
 
Exmoor beast said:
Dug my ?69 750 GT out from back of garage, new battery, carbs rebuilt, valve clearance , oil, plugs , leads, tank flush,and a lot of oiling, freeing ( clutch) and bugger me if he didn?t fire up! Took him for a short ride, that became a long ride and it?s one of the strongest, most stable bikes I?ve ever ridden, I love it.
Here?s the odd bit-I bought said bike in 1991 when I was 22 and it has been pushed from one house to another, under a cover and coated in WD40/ oil /dust for 29 years. I had never ridden it before.
I oiled the bores originally thinking it may stand for a while till I get round to sorting it out, didn?t imagine I?d be 52 , glad I did though.

waow .. that's fantastic Beast :)

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Paul Marx said:
750 will run with a dead battery. No electric start of course and it'll die at low revs, but as long as the dynamo gives, it'll run.
Unless you're using electronic ignition I suppose.

.... unless you stick a $20 capacitor across the terminals and then it will hold enough charge to keep it brmm brmm
 
I wonder if there are still satellites running with points. The capacitor idea sounds interesting, isn't it potentially dangerous? This battery probably couldn't have charged any capacitor.
 
"Flying Boogie" One time I was carving a 90 degree corner under full throttle on my 70 750 Breganzie SF0 and the baffle spitted out from my exhaust on to the door of my neighbors pristine 1967 Chrysler 2 Dr HT New Yorker and dented it - Cost me $300.

Breganzie Crap. Plus I never found the baffle and had to build my own - 2 into 1 Slater's Bros Headers, plus you don't want to mess with Doug Mohns defense man for the Boston Bruins NHL.

Doug Mohns drove Desotos not New Yorker's. Thanks to to an Italian last name which I can't discloses out of fear.

I'm getting to old to care - Still love you Ann Maire - Always my trusted friend.

Why am I a Leprechaun ;o(

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Really BIG guy's like Gordy Howe, Stan Mikida, Davy Keon and George Armstrong where all around me but they could not beat me on Ella Lake when I was skating backwards over the length of an arena. Don't get me wrong, no one can beat these BRUITS in a 100 meter dash on skates as they can dig troughs in the ice to accelerate to 60 mph in that distant, but none of them stood a chance in hell winning a golf game, skiing on water or snow or win a motorcycle race against me - Period. Not even at Ping Pong. I was 5'11 and weighed 138Lbs ;o)

Really they didn't know how to handle canoe let alone a fishing rod or a fire arm.

I made a lot of money in tips from Americans as a teen for just being a knowledgeable Canadian bush guide.

Guided, dock hand and serviced outboards and boats, cleaned a lot of fish in my youth ;o(

But I was always on a motorcycle and could fly a Piper J3 on floats when I was 12 and only went to cities like Toronto to race stop lights on a week end once or twice every year or two.

A 1600 mile round 1 day trip to race my Breganzie in the streets of Toronto was an odyssey for for me.
 
City block light to light racers are wimps in my opinion - That's not a real racing - Endurance and stamina over distance is.

Say at least 10 to 300 miles before you have fill the tank with a WELL TUNED Breganzie 7800 rpm 750 twin and I'm being modest.

Granted she's a handful but something you have to get used to or she will kill you. 120+ mph down any straight !

What are the death stasis re the Bregazie 750 SF other for those whom can't ride and those whom can ?

The Breganzie 750 is NOT by near close to what modern 750's have to offer today ?
 
18 cylinders and 6.6 litres of Laverda at The Huntsman, (TN3 9LE), this evening.
 

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I'd have expected to see a bunch of spiders at a show called "The Huntsman"

Whenever I see or hear the word "huntsman" I immediately think of a big brown spider about the size of my palm. While they don't occur in UK, huntsman spiders are very common in Australia. I often see them around my place. Sometimes they come inside.
 
Did you hear the story of the lady who found a huntsman missing six of it's eight legs? She nursed it back to health until it regrew the missing legs then released it back into the wild. She was awarded an humanitarian gong.
The other huntsmen referred to are those that are unmentionable in pursuit of the uneatable.

 
Legs said:
Did you hear the story of the lady who found a huntsman missing six of it's eight legs? She nursed it back to health until it regrew the missing legs then released it back into the wild. She was awarded an humanitarian gong.
The other huntsmen referred to are those that are unmentionable in pursuit of the uneatable.

Drugs? Get help!
 
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