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

Visited Sleap Airfield, Wem, North Shropshire ( England ). Built in 1942 initially for training bomber crews flying Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bombers and later Vickers Wellington. From 1955 home of Shropshire Aero Club. Good for a visit with small museum and good cafe.
 

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Been working through a bunch of 3c jobs that have been on the list for years. Pulled the fairing and did some clearance grinding off a modified mount I changed a year ago. While it was off I replaced the instrument back lights with LEDS, much improved. I also added 3 more W clips to hold the reflector into its housing while centralising it in the rim. I also fixed the intermittent loss of the blinkers. Marsked up and painted what I could of the fairing mount and dash gloss black. Contact glued the rubber surround trim on the headlight opening on the fairing. I also want to find some 70mm diameter thin wall rubber hose I can place over the wiring that runs between the fuel tank and headlight bucket, it's pretty ugly hanging out there in full view. I also need to find a way to tighten the rearview mirror mounts, they move in too easily when hitting bumps. Next is a valve clearance check before the coming 12-day Tassie trip. And last of all even more rear shocks spring preload, it still bottomed really badly on the giant craters on last weekends 2 day ride. The last job is aiming the Headlight, It's now able to be moved up and down with a bit of pressure, it was locked solid and miss aimed really badly on the last 2 rides when I got stuck having to do 100ks plus at night, happy to avoid that happening again.
 
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Test day at Jurby tomorrow so thought I better choose a couple of bikes to ride. Probably take the 350 and a 500. The 350 hasn’t run for months, so that will be interesting to see if it starts. I did stick the 500 on the rollers just to make sure that fired up okay, which it did. The weather forecast is also looking much better for tomorrow than it did a week ago, so that’s a bonus too.
 
Vince said:
I also want to find some 70mm diameter thin wall rubber hose I can place over the wiring that runs between the fuel tank and headlight bucket, it's pretty ugly hanging out there in full view.
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That's a mighty big tube for elec conduit Vince! You sure 70mm is what you want? I bought some 75mm flex tube to hopefully use as inlet connectors to air filters and that is BIG!
 
That's a guess, I haven't actually measured it but I have some split flexible conduit that opens up 50mm ID and it's nowhere near big enough to cover it all. The 3 heated grips cables are included plus the 20mm thick fairing mounting tube that comes straight out from the bike steering head that supports the dash with both instruments and headlight is included. It's approx 80mm long and looks untidy as hell. A few years back I put a piece of rubber radiator hose over it with a split down its length and it looked much tidier. But apparently, I was told it would sweat and cause corrosion in the electrics and create some reliability issues. I mean is it so different to using a sheath that comes on every bike wiring loom I ever saw?
 
Vince said:
That's a guess, I haven't actually measured it but I have some split flexible conduit that opens up 50mm ID and it's nowhere near big enough to cover it all. The 3 heated grips cables are included plus the 20mm thick fairing mounting tube that comes straight out from the bike steering head that supports the dash with both instruments and headlight is included. It's approx 80mm long and looks untidy as hell. A few years back I put a piece of rubber radiator hose over it with a split down its length and it looked much tidier. But apparently, I was told it would sweat and cause corrosion in the electrics and create some reliability issues. I mean is it so different to using a sheath that comes on every bike wiring loom I ever saw?
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It will, if you continue running coolant liquid through it...🤣

piet
 
Today went to Oschersleben race track with my new Zane Formula. 500 Km back to home. It is a new expierience with that bike. I feel more comfortable with my RGS and my SFC 1000, the Zane needs more gear shifting and is not as comfortable as the others- but performance, handling and brakes are much better. I need some time to learn how this bike works. After 7 hrs I had some pain in the ass, never had this with the RGS. Sorry forget to make fotos of the bikes of Matthias Bothe and Arne which were doing same practice there.
 
Why don't you use separate shrink for the various cables and use the venerable cable tie to attach is to the fairing mount? Once they're bundled together nicely they should tuck in and be unobtrusive. A huge rubber or plastic cover over all that would look weird to my eyes. Just my HO.
sfcpiet said:
It will, if you continue running coolant liquid through it...🤣

piet
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That would require detaching various connections to slide the shrinkwrap down the cable and that's a bridge too far, I tried a flexible conduit that could open and cover it but the biggest available is too narrow. The dash is black, and the headlight bucket is black so this should blend in and be way less noticeable than what's there. BTW the main loom is covered by a black sleave, but its the heated grips 3 white connectors and cables, the exposed wiring for the Volt metre on the dash, and the wiring for the cigarette lighter charging plug also on the dash, are all added later that stands out and needs hiding.
 
Vince said:
That would require detaching various connections to slide the shrinkwrap down the cable and that's a bridge too far, I tried a flexible conduit that could open and cover it but the biggest available is too narrow. The dash is black, and the headlight bucket is black so this should blend in and be way less noticeable than what's there. BTW the main loom is covered by a black sleave, but its the heated grips 3 white connectors and cables, the exposed wiring for the Volt metre on the dash, and the wiring for the cigarette lighter charging plug also on the dash, are all added later that stands out and needs hiding.
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Black tape.
Even the best auto-sparkies use black tape from time to time 👍
 
Horrible messy stuff, way easier to just cut a length of Radiator hose, split it lengthwise and cable tie in over the mess.
 
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