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

Went for a ride to West Head yesterday,north of Sydney. Longest ride so far , bike went well, road was wet but not raining and with new tires felt great.
:) :) :)

 

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Ventodue said:
Thanks for the post, Paul.  Haven't come across those before.  Looks good.  Where did you get it from?

Ciao  Craig 
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Hi Craig,

Any bearing shop will have them. The nomenclature is usual based on... "ID-OD-Length" preceded by a manufacturers shorthand such as OB or AM. In the case of my SF levers a quick measure up showed I needed 081208. My local bearing supplier stocks them, but here they are on ebay.... https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=ob081208&_sacat=0

HTH, Paul
 
TC said:
Went for a ride to West Head yesterday,north of Sydney. Longest ride so far , bike went well, road was wet but not raining
Hey Tom your bike is looking good I was just thinking rub out those ugly white pin lines and you have a proper red 3C and just ignore the silver frame for a while.
Brett myself and yours will make a trifecta of them.
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Thanks Maurice, I am pretty keen to get it back to a black frame, and I wont really know all thats going on with this bike till I strip it completely so it really is a win win as far as a full repaint goes.Just fun enjoying it at the moment. Raining in Sydney now so its garage time again. ::)
 
Sounds great Tom looking forward to meeting you might organise a run for next Sunday?  Sunday after is our bbq rego day.  If we get brett out on his 3c I will bring mine for the photo opportunity.
Marty
 
chrisk said:
Then recalled someone here mentioning the same thing, due to a crack at the rear starter motor mount. (Rowdy Pat I think)
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So does this crack go into the cases, hence the oil Chris? You'll need to post a pic or two. Hadn't heard of this before now. Why would it crack there? Bolt done up when something was misaligned??
 
That is defiantly a possibility Marty
Am as locked int the BBQ as I can be and next sunday sounds good. 3 x 3c has got to be good thing ::)
 
Be four 3Cs if mine was going, sadly not. Did you pay the National Park entry fee, last I saw it was $11. The cost compared to corners past that gate just have me bypassing the park. Even if the view at West Head is gobsmacking. Take care at the Mona Vale rd end, the cops have been known to sit in the hidden driveways there.
 
Hey Vince, no I go either early or after 3.30 pm so no fees, also you can go around the back way via Akuna Bay, some of the best roads around, fully resurfaced by our hero PM Tony Abbott so him and his mates can cycle there. only good thing he has ever done.... Heaps of cops on Mona Vale Rd today just as you said. :(
 
Vince said:
the cops have been known to sit in the hidden driveways there.
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If I found a cop sitting in my driveway with a speed camera, I'd take him a cup of tea and a biscuit.

I've often seen idiots going past my place at crazy speed for a residential area. Speed limit is 50kph. Just yesterday evening some dickhead went past at about 100kph as it was starting to get dark. There are kids and pets in the area that he could easily have not seen in the fading light. The pricks should be publically shamed for that sort of thing. Put 'em in stocks in the middle of the village.
 
Where this happens is a 60k zone. It's depending on what way you coming, the start of 30 or 40 ks of National park comprising lots of 30 and 40k bends. That's my attraction, but I expect where it starts or ends on a longish straight, now in suburbia some get overexcited. You blow past some poor buggars bushland retreat at over 80 and making heaps of noise then fair enough get a ticket. But its the 10ks over stuff that I object too. BTW I do the same on all of the rds we ride, I avoid being a dickhead and speeding past any village if I can. It's the corners I want, not the straight bits between.
 
Paul H said:
Hi Craig,

Any bearing shop will have them.<snip>
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Ta Paul.

(Last time I went by my 'local bearing shop', I discovered they'd instituted a minimum purchase policy.  Not great if all you want is a coupla of circlips - or a single oilite bush ...  :(.

What I fear is that they're just the kind of people who moan about business going over to the internet.  They've already moved to smaller premises, in a backwater industrial estate.  Hey ho ... It wouldn't surprise me if this lot soon join the long list of local businesses who one day 'suddenly' shut up shop).
 
Dragged the beast out today for the local village fete.  Remarkably not the newest bike there, the sidecar is actually a 1980 Bonnie and there was another '79 Trumpet there. (The 1913 Triumph 3rd in is interesing - have been promised a go on it later)



 

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Fixed the 1000 SFC's carburetion.
The idle was unstable, and it was not happy trickling through the village in 2nd gear.
I decided it was too rich, so went down from 65 idle jets (too big for a 120 engine, in my limited experience) to 60.
Problem solved!
Beer O'clock here.

Steve
 
Pulled carburettor off OR600 today, to replace original inlet stubs with new CNC versions as they had cracked.  Had to loosen oil lines on head in order to get better access to mounting bolts. 

Managed to snap oil line banjo bolt putting it back together, which was really smart.  Luckily, I was able to get broken bolt out of head, so just need new bolt to fix.

Sometimes, you get a break...

Yogi
 
Dellortoman said:
If I found a cop sitting in my driveway with a speed camera, I'd take him a cup of tea and a biscuit.
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So would I, as long as he was picking up the dickheads using the dual use path past our place as a racetrack. Half the little bastards don't even wear helmets. Used to be a well used cycle and walking path but not now, too bloody dangerous.
 
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