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

The only time I drilled a jet, FCR Kehans have a jet that when bigger reduces the volume of the accelerator pump squirt, its called a leak jet. The tuning pros have hundreds of mods to sort this, lots of bikes that run these have massive carbs. My 250 Husky came with a 37mm carb and would almost stall with a fist of the accelerator pump.To find the best amount of squirt sounds suspect, they would video it at the std 30 frames a second and with experiments found its best was at 0.75mm compared to 0.35mm. Clever types. So I go into the local Husky shop and ask for a 0.75 Leak Jet and get a confused look. They never heard of any of this. So then I bought a 0.75mm drill bit, then I needed a drill with a chuck to hold it. My Dramal did the job, slow as possible as there very easily broken. This worked great with power wheelies and zero bog. A couple of other great mods is a gadget called a Power Now. It's a fixed horizontal thin blade that divides the middle of the carb throat air filter side and causes the carb to act like its smaller at small throatal openings. That also worked well. Last gadget was a JD jetting kit, that is 2 triple tapered needles with 5 notches developed on a dino for your model and a list of altitudes and temperatures they work at. You could feel the difference if you didnt use the right needle for summer or winter temperatures. So even the latest best-designed carbs take some work to jet well.
 
Not only do you know nothing about candles, you know SFA about holes as well :o ;)
 
Thought I'd try and make the Eagles seat presentable. Cover looks to be original, but was missing seat strap, chrome trim, had a couple of holes and had become unstuck from the seat base in parts:-
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Bought some repro trim and seat strap from ebay, some spray on glue and quite pleased with result. Still have a hole at rear on other side. I will try and find some similar vinyl and glue a patch on. I know it isn't a patch on a proper job, but I'm happy with result and think it suits the original look and makes it look more complete. (May get a new seat cover later perhaps?):-
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