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

Davo said:
So you get a boat in for repair every decade or so?  :-*
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Sometimes it feels like that, one of our apprentices came up with that sign when we were going through a real Neil stage on the playlist, and the pun is pretty accurate too :)
 
Tippie said:
Would have just meant a bit longer pitstop back in the day!
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Nah... I think regulations required to keep the cases for the duration of a race, all internals could be swapped though.

Curing time of JB-Weld would mean a serious drop of positions.  :D  Would probably be best to call it a day.

piet
 
TC said:
Sometimes it feels like that, one of our apprentices came up with that sign when we were going through a real Neil stage on the playlist, and the pun is pretty accurate too :)
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I?ll bring my Hartley TS18 in for a cabin respray next week then..

Yogi
 
Being grounded due to a buggered shoulder, I decided to have a go at the Jota Series 2 maintenance.

New fuel taps, flushed the tank out. Quite a bit of rust, will need to line it at the next opportunity.

Replaced the Todd-Boyer ignition with a Witt DMC 2. The Todd-Boyer was still working fine (Phil  :D) but I was concerned about it packing up away from home. With the Witt I can carry spares - all my bikes have them.
Gratifyingly, it started the moment I hit the button, and the strobe showed the maximum advance to be exactly on the 32 degrees BTDC mark.

Fitted a new Li-Ion battery. Cranks incredibly well, weighs nothing.

Now all I need is to get the shoulder fixed...

Steve

 
sfcpiet said:
Nah... I think regulations required to keep the cases for the duration of a race, all internals could be swapped though.

Curing time of JB-Weld would mean a serious drop of positions.  :D  Would probably be best to call it a day.
piet
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I wonder what the biggest repair was that was ever done during their racing heyday?  I think I recall stories of heads being off during the race, did they ever open the cases to do a gearbox repair or swap a crank?
Fascinating in contrast to these days when engines are sealed and for example in motogp they have had a limit of as little as 5 engines for a whole season!
 
Steve,

There was a little episode concerning a v.Dijk Team Zane Formula in a 24 Heures du Liege around 2000.  Roger reported a spare engine was stripped and many of the internals were installed in the race engine.  Whole process took a couple of hours, allegedly the cases were still warm when re-installed. :D  I'll quiz Roger for details, he was on re-fuelling duty and was directly involved.  Not sure if it was crank or gearbox issues that was the cause.  Perhaps Marnix knows more.

piet
 
Hardest working pit crew I ever saw was Stan and Steve Bayliss at Symmons Plains Raceway back in the 70s.  They were competing in two sidecar classes (600cc and unlimited I think) with the one outfit and two Honda SOHC 4 engines of different capacities. They had to fit the appropriate sized engine for each race. There were two races for each class on both Saturday and Sunday. 8 races in all with an engine swap between each one. That's 7 engine swaps for the weekend. Not to mention tyre changes and other maintenance. At one stage while Stan was wrestling a hot engine out of the outfit I asked him if he'd mind if I took a photo. All he said was "Fuck off!"  :D
 
Dellortoman said:
At one stage while Stan was wrestling a hot engine out of the outfit I asked him if he'd mind if I took a photo. All he said was "Fuck off!"  :D
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Were you surprised, Cam??!! 
Lucky he didn't throw a 12 inch shifter at you!  :-*
 
Dellortoman said:
At one stage while Stan was wrestling a hot engine out of the outfit I asked him if he'd mind if I took a photo. All he said was "Fuck off!"  :D
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At least he took time out to pass on some important information.  Was that a 'Yes' or 'No' then?
 
I remember Slaters doing a head change on an SFC mid race, cant recall when or where though!, pretty sure it was continental
Zandvoort?  also remember a tyre change on a triple with alloy wheels, and yes I do mean tyre not wheel and tyre, for some reason the spare had already been used, that was at Snetterton in a 6 hour race. Changing a tyre on alloy wheels is something that I have never achieved without the wheel being bolted into a tyre changing machine, so respect there.

I also remember them sending an SFC from the IOM, back to their mainland base (Collington) so that Graham Binnion could cut and re-weld the headstock to change the steering angle, and then back to the IOM and they didn't miss practise or racing! I think that bike got a replacement frame later and now lives in Australia.

CLEM
 
Nice  (bigthumb) you sent the tank and sidepanels to Spain? no decent, affordable place in Scotland?

Regards Gerald
 
Decent and affordable, which one do you want????

I sent it to my previous painter in Spain as I saw his efforts in increasing tank capacity when I lived there.
Decent AND affordable too.  8)
 
I pay my painter ?140 cash for tank and side panels and any minor repairs needed to either.He wins prizes for Scooters,which are mainly paint!
 
That's reasonable!

The orange bodywork alone for the series 2 I have for sale was over 1000GBP.
 
Send them down here !

  My previous guy in Bromsgrove did the TS silver and put on the red pinstripes from copying an original PANEL for ?400.
 
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