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

Legs said:
Insipid seventies colours? Orange WAS the seventies colour.
The Laverda factory must have had some orange paint left over after painting the kitchen cabinets.
(All tongue in cheek chaps)
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yeah I agree but orange was vibrant, compared to cloudy metallic yellows and greens , I dont quite no how to explain it, Im certainly not being rude, but the lime green for want of a better name, looks like a pot of over boiled cabbage :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
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Hey Russ its not uncommon for oil to come through the thread on the stepped nut if your seal looks good and the seal surface on the nut, just apply a drop of loctite on the thread on the crank as you wind the nut back on.
Also ensure you tension that nut up if it runs loose which can also be common it will wear a groove onto the end of the nut then it becomes too short and the hex of the nut will chew at the seal.
 
Andy J said:
I guess most ’young’ bike riders when they see an orange bike think it is a KTM so perhaps painting your Laverda white is one way of combating this misidentification 🧐
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awesome thought train... I do want a KTM, so what does that say ... Im a closet orangist?
 
sideshow said:
Yup, but at the same time if thats the bike that someone dreamed of, as they saw an Orange Laverda, SFC or not , and thats what they want, then who cares. If someone wants to make a look a like sfc then thats cool too, people do the best they can with what they have, not every one can own one either because of price or there just aren't many. My first Laverda I saw was Orange, I hate orange I mean I really hate orange, but no other colour does it for me with a Laverda.. call it a mental block, but I struggle when I think of what other colour it should be than orange, when it comes to Laverda with the old school bikini fairings on. And it has to be said , seeing a line up of 20 odd Laverda's in orange looks pretty impressive. But I come from a different age from most of you lot, you were riding Laverda's before I was even born, so maybe thats the difference too? No offence to anyone else in their colour choices, but the 70s colours are just dull and remind me of a rainy grey days.
We live in a herd its almost impossible to be an individual, and then by doing just that you become part of another herd, so in fact then you aren't even being original.
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People do what they want. As the French say, tastes and colours aren't to be discussed.
Which means that one is free not to appreciate other people's choices.
Otherwise in the Laverda world there would only be orange Jotas and orange SFC replicas and what a loss that would be.

Paul
 
And there I was thinking that they originally did SFC in orange in deference to the huge Dutch market. Isn't that the national colour?
Colour association changes all the time. Honda used to be Big Red but now anything red has to be from Bologna, Yamaha racers were white with red details, then yellow with black checks and now they are blue, Kawa has owned green, Suzuki off-road stuff was always yellow, RG500s seem to all be sky blue. There were tons of colourful bikes in the ´70s, bright red or green Laverdas among them.
 
Tippie said:
And there I was thinking that they originally did SFC in orange in deference to the huge Dutch market. Isn't that the national colour?
Colour association changes all the time. Honda used to be Big Red but now anything red has to be from Bologna, Yamaha racers were white with red details, then yellow with black checks and now they are blue, Kawa has owned green, Suzuki off-road stuff was always yellow, RG500s seem to all be sky blue. There were tons of colourful bikes in the ´70s, bright red or green Laverdas among them.
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Not so much the huge Dutch market but the Oss 24 hours. Holland and France were the two biggest export markets for Laverda because of endurance racing. Laverda could have been blue rather than orange after all, had Couturier, the French importer shouted louder.
Ducati are red, mostly, because it the Italian racing colour.

Paul
 
Shajota said:
White bikes hey. I have a vivid memory of one I saw in about '73 or '74. Was in Mackay (NQ) and saw a Kawasaki Z900 parked in the street that had been painted stark white. (like Gert's Sulzbacher) I thought it looked stunning and obviously a bit unusual compared to the run of the mill Jaffa.
Anyway, next day (Sunday) we visited Seaforth (a beachside town north of Mackay) and at the beach we went to, there was a group of blokes on the latest & greatest, mainly Honda 4s and Kwaka 9s and in amongst them was the white bike. These blokes had all decided to have an impromptu sprint race straight up the beach. We were near where they started and presume they had a marked spot as a finish line but a bit further on was the swimming enclosure net.
Off they roared and didn't notice any bike in particular leading the way (traction probably evened the field even though it was fairly hard sand), but near the finish it was quite a variety of slow down and stopping manoeuvres but the one that stood out was the White bike. Don't know whether he lost his brakes or just overshot but he was heading for the swimming net at a great rate of knots.
No option but to lay it down and slide the last 50 or so metres straight into the net. Might have been a couple of others that did the same but the white one stood out!
I daresay the white paint was well and truly cattle trucked after that and no doubt quite a job extricating sand from every little orifice........
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Such behaviour reminds me of my youth....... we had a Z1A running around our town in bright yellow, stood out because of its difference to the norm.
 
AJ said:
I worked at GM in NZ in the 70's and the LH Torana's were bright yellow, lime green, orange etc. by 1975. Some HQ's were yellow too.
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Remember the metallic blue , Goldie brown and metallic pink ones. Can’t ever remember seeing yellow ones. But I was 3 in 1978. I did proudly buy a73 kings wood station wagon from 72 , when I was 28. But I think it was a re spray as it was snifter green
 
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sideshow said:
Remember the metallic blue , Goldie brown and metallic pink ones. Can’t ever remember seeing yellow ones. But I was 3 in 1978. I did proudly but a 73 kings wood station wagon from 72 , when I was 28. But I think it was a re spray as it was snifter green
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My brother had a HT Monaro, metalic dark green with gold stripes along the bottom half. A great colour combination, and a very nice car..... at the time.
 
sideshow said:
Remember the metallic blue , Goldie brown and metallic pink ones. Can’t ever remember seeing yellow ones. But I was 3 in 1978. I did proudly but a 73 kings wood station wagon from 72 , when I was 28. But I think it was a re spray as it was snifter green
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3 in 1978 ?? Are you sure you are in the right forum ? I was just starting a doomed apprenticeship around then. Oh sorry, must go and change my bag.
 
Perry said:
3 in 1978 ?? Are you sure you are in the right forum ? I was just starting a doomed apprenticeship around then. Oh sorry, must go and change my bag.
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78.
I'd been shaving for 15 years by then and was nearing the end of my medical studies.
Was living with the mother of my children.
Bought a brand new Honda 750/4.

Paul
 
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