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

S clutch dismantled and going back together.
It was slipping when cold and dragging when hot.

I didn't find anything very obvious.
The spring posts are very loosely located by clips at the bottom. Two of the clips were out of their respective grooves making the posts more mobile than the others. Would that entail the pressure plate not lifting squarely? I doubt it.
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The springs were at the lower length limit so new ones going in. About 1.5mm in it.

I need to decide which rods to use. I'd put the two on the left in last time around. 224.67 total length but it didn't cure the drag and there was no adjustment left on the cable. The two other rods total 223.77mm. I'll probably do a mix to maintain some adjustment on the cable.
Maybe the drag is due to the new plates? They might need bedding in?

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Paul
 
Any warped steel plates, corrugated grooves in the hub. I am hoping to find the first as to why my Atlas won't select neutral and creep forward even with no lever freeplay. Did you soke the new plates in oil for a few hours first before fitting. The last time i had a new clutch fitted it was pretty horrible for the first 20ks.
 
Vince said:
Any warped steel plates, corrugated grooves in the hub. I am hoping to find the first as to why my Atlas won't select neutral and creep forward even with no lever freeplay. Did you soke the new plates in oil for a few hours first before fitting. The last time i had a new clutch fitted it was pretty horrible for the first 20ks.
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No warped plates, no grooves. I did some kilometres with the new plates which were soaked in oil before fitting.
Next instalment in a few days.
2500 km trip planned in three weeks. With British bike riding friends, so we must fly the flag, Corinne and I.
Paul
 
andre g said:
https://www.motoforza.de/uni-hocker-cafe-racer-bmw-bmw-uni-dily-60-80/
Thats is the seat, fork is BMW K 1100. I mounted the handlebars above the upper triple clamp which lowered the front but made the bike more comfortable for me at an age of xx.😂
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Thanks for the link Andre, I've never come across that company before and it's always good to add to the list of useful specialists. On the whole I lean towards originality rather than modified bikes but on this occasion you've really tested my preference - as I said previously, I think what you've done looks great!
 
Another 200 km trip into Flanders to go to a village fête where there's always some old motorcycles and cars.
Rain on the way there, but the trip back was dry.

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The only vehicles which really caught my eye were the machines from the " Triplettes de Bonneville " team, regularly out on the salt flats beating records with original machines.

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Paul
 
I also need one of those turn signal buttons. Replaced the useless stalk mirror on the right side w/ a bar end mirror, updated the master cylinder, stripped the black paint from the yolks and fabricated a crash bar.
 

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Interesting find on the Jota and very well hidden, I found by chance really the oil cooler mounting bracket had fractured down behind the cooler.
Not sure why,maybe a previous repair had given up?......who knows but rust on the break shows it was on its way for a while.anyway welded back together and repainted it should last a few more years.
I have sourced another spare just in case.

Shows you have to keep an eye on these old clunkers!
 

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Paul Marx said:
Another 200 km trip into Flanders to go to a village fête where there's always some old motorcycles and cars.
Rain on the way there, but the trip back was dry.

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The only vehicles which really caught my eye were the machines from the " Triplettes de Bonneville " team, regularly out on the salt flats beating records with original machines.

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Looks like they got the 1.618 number correct but Fibonacci had no hand in designing that........ I suppose that style is for a much more refined palate than I hope I'll never possess. ;)

Cheers
 
S clutch sorted. 5 gears plus neutral, no dragging, no slipping.
Spring post clips properly located
New springs
New friction plates
DAM kit
Human error, mine, dealt with.
The dragging and slipping experienced before hand was due to the fact that I'd shimmed the drum improperly and hadn't checked the sprocket alignment.
2 shims were behind the drum rather than in front, behind the drum circlip.

Oil change done. The bike should be off Saturday for a weeks riding down to central France.
A group ride with British bikes apart from Bruno and his wife two up on a GTL.

Paul
 
Washed bike after a weeks touring in the Galloway area of Scotland.
No pictures as my phone camera died.
Most probably due to being used as a navigation aid, mounted on one of those supposedly clever handlebar mounts with a shock absorber in it.
Not a cheap holder especially as I now need to get the phone fixed. :mad:
At least Beatrix behaved her self bar a set of fouled plugs due to lots of slow running.
Time to get Beatrix on a dynamometer.
 
I use my smartphone as a GPS on every long trip. That's 10 000 km a year.
No "phone" related problems, it's the mounts that give up.
The only problem I've had is that when it's very hot, the "phone" cuts with a self protection message.
Paul
 
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