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

Laverda1000.de said:
Got new TÜV today - still gives me sweaty palms every time, because of those memories of old, of grey coated rivet counters. No reason to worry nowadays - the unregistered Wilbers shocks didn't register and the broken rear brake light (from disuse, I guess, but was still working when I left home) just elicited a "Guess you'll have to fix that later"....
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Yeah,

We'd have had to face the firing squad back then with some of the stuff that's simply waved through these days. ;)

For the first time in over 40 years of having the privilege of only needing to deal with a TÜV inspector visiting the workshop I worked at, the GTL needs to be presented this month at an official testing station, really looking forward to all the moaning and bitching. :rolleyes:

piet
 
I am so glad we don’t have German style TUV, or the daft rules or coppers with guns. I only have one bike that needs an MOT ( the rest are deemed too old to need one!) one bike that needs road tax ( the older ones are free! ) and my local copper is like is like an extra from a Will Hay film- you could bribe him with an ice cream. In fact most people where I live are like extras from a Will Hay film coming to think of it..
MOT man builds choppers for a living so you can imagine what a stickler he is for the rules.
 
The guy who used to do the MOTs on my Triple, back in the '80s, had me demonstrate the lights, then indicators, brake lights and, finally, the horn while he stood in front of the bike.
Every year, he'd jump two steps back, then go and write the ticket.
When I took in the Raleigh Runabout that my registration number came from, he picked it up by the seat and steering stem and shook it like a Jack Russell shakes a rat. He then put it down and wrote out the ticket.
I missed him when he retired.
 
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I go to a wonderfully old school place for my mot's. My favourite part is when he drags out this ancient plank that he butts up againt the tyres to check the alignment. It looks as if it spent a few decades on Victory's lower gun deck.
 
Perry said:
I go to a wonderfully old school place for my mot's. My favourite part is when he drags out this ancient plank that he butts up againt the tyres to check the alignment. It looks as if it spent a few decades on Victory's lower gun deck.
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The MOT people are incredibly old fashioned & odd - quite how you can have a 13 month ticket dated on “ because you’ve still got a month left..” still baffles me. I used to go to an old MOT station , old John would keep the stainless steel wiper blades to weigh in for scrap..the pile was like a haystack when he died!
 
My motorcycles have so far operated on public roads in both the US and Europe for a combined three hundred and thirty nine (339) years without any government mandated inspections and without any safety related incidents related to the condition of the bikes.

Or in other words, the brain damage of 339 annual inspections has been avoided with no impact on safety.
 
Silvaire said:
My motorcycles have so far operated on public roads in both the US and Europe for a combined three hundred and thirty nine (339) years without any government mandated inspections and without any safety related incidents related to the condition of the bikes.

Or in other words, the brain damage of 339 annual inspections has been avoided with no impact on safety.
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Had to read that again, ‘combined’ being the operable word. For a moment I thought you were immortal.
 
For the moment, I've passed none of my bikes through inspection, along with 85% of French motorcyclists. Legislation concerning tests was passed maybe two years back.

One exception, the Vincent Rapide. It was registered in the UK and needed a test so as to be registered in France.
It sailed through.
The inspection centre is used to me. They passed the SFC which needed a test to be sold.

Paul
 
Hard to compare, because the Egli is so much lighter as a pure race bike. Only rode the Egli on track, where I only rode the CND on open roads. Riding position on the CND was much more comfortable with its shorter tank.
Biggest difference between the two though is the vibrations, on the Egli these are similar to a regular Laverda 750 frame, where the CND is a violent shaker.
All my attempts to reduce them on the CND were in vain. It would have been interesting to swap engines between CND and the Egli or in fact one of my other Lav 750s, but the CND’s crankcase was milled in several places which would have required several spacers to make its engine fit, nor would the Egli’s engine fit the CND, so never got around to doing that.
In the Egli though, I ran a 1974 SFC engine for many years and vibrations with that engine were not any worse than with the Egli’s original small valve SF engine.

Marnix
 
MarnixSFC said:
Hard to compare, because the Egli is so much lighter as a pure race bike. Only rode the Egli on track, where I only rode the CND on open roads. Riding position on the CND was much more comfortable with its shorter tank.
Biggest difference between the two though is the vibrations, on the Egli these are similar to a regular Laverda 750 frame, where the CND is a violent shaker.
All my attempts to reduce them on the CND were in vain. It would have been interesting to swap engines between CND and the Egli or in fact one of my other Lav 750s, but the CND’s crankcase was milled in several places which would have required several spacers to make its engine fit, nor would the Egli’s engine fit the CND, so never got around to doing that.
In the Egli though, I ran a 1974 SFC engine for many years and vibrations with that engine were not any worse than with the Egli’s original small valve SF engine.

Marnix
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I can’t remember what tubing was used on the CND but it would have been very high quality- maybe lighter than the Egli?
 
Having noticed occasional popping on the overrun, recently, I thought it might be worth dropping the floatbowls.
One of those ten minute jobs where, if you skip the groundwork, it soon turns into a 'mare.
There was a surprising amount of crud in there, probably from the green tank which had sat for some years before coming to me.

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All was going swimmingly until, replacing the centre pilot jet, I dropped it!
Aaargh!
As anyone who's worked on a Triple knows, fallen things finish up under the starter motor. Luckily, I fashioned a thingmy which allowed me to fish it out.

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Reminder to self: NEVER fanny around with jets, without securing the 'drop zone'.

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And secure the jet before refitting it.

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Job done.
And the "ten minute job" only took an hour.
(motodd)Rob, I feel your pain.
 
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