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

markQLD said:
Volunteered poor old SeFFie to become the latest test mule for Redax Laverda.
Things ya do for ya mates ay! 
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aye, David H has to be happy with that outcome seeing how it is his engine, has to owe you cartons of beer at the very least  8)

meanwhile, elsewhere in the workshop, 77 Jota engine started for the first time for something like 20 years plus
off to Adelaide in the next week or two, engine sounds great

10th Jan MB engine right
 
Surely if the old twin predates compliance plates - which anything pre-SF3 does - then you can?t be expected to fit one! That to me DOES sound like fraud. A 74 SFC had triple discs and your bodywork and no plate.  Looks to me like the list of regs relates to punters bringing chopped hotrods into the country. Do they really care that much about an old Italian twin?  You?d probably find similar regs for anyone trying to register a vehicle in any state if you dig loosely under the surface.
 
Mark and Red bear in mind the stock exhaust. From my experience with 10:1 and a 5/C cam it felt really gutless above 5k. Also effects the vibes I reckon. Maybe try with stock and with a 2/1 if you have one although the factory pipe won?t fit with stock stand brackets on LHS.
Be innaresting anyways. Maybe with the twister phasing the std pipes will work much better than with the 360 which works a treat with cam and pipe tuned to work together?
 
chrisk said:
Pre ADR. No plates back then.

I have contacted the shipping bloke, to see what his take on this bureaucratic bullshit is.
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Get the right person, have the bike photographed and documented and get a guarantee that if it?s the same bike it will be allowed back.
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
You?d probably find similar regs for anyone trying to register a vehicle in any state if you dig loosely under the surface.
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True, but where the rego application says list modifications, ticking the "none" box is easy.

Begs the question, how does something like this pre-89 get allowed entry:  https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1966-CHEVROLET-NOVA-II-383CI-700-HP-PRO-CHARGED-4-LINK-9-DIFF-SHOW-CAMARO/113450352438?hash=item1a6a2aff36:g:KcEAAOSwb8BcEw4H:rk:15:pf:0

So many mods on the list are not allowed.
 
chrisk said:
True, but where the rego application says list modifications, ticking the "none" box is easy.
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You may have made a rod for your own back Chris.

I assume from the above comment that you've registered it as an un-modified pre-89 bike when it's clearly been modified to buggery. Was the vehicle inspector Blind Freddie?

If you take it out of Australia with its rego documentation stating that it's un-modified, then bring it back in, some customs bloke (who isn't blind) might notice that it's been modified. The only conclusion he can draw then (given that the papers say it left Australia as "un-modified") will be that it was modified while overseas. Then you have to go through the fight to get it back in to Australia as a modified vehicle, which may end in tears if they decide it has to go to the crusher.

I reckon your only way out is to go to the rego people and say that the bike has now (ahem) been modified and you want the rego updated to show that it's a modified pre-89 vehicle before you take it out of the country. I presume you'll need engineer's certificates, etc. Good luck getting that paperwork sorted before February!

If you can't get the paperwork sorted, I reckon your only safe option is to leave it at home.
 
If everybody left it to the Burocrates and their regulations all trade would stop. I expect you need to rely on the bloke who navigates through this Bullshit all the time to know what will fly. It's your typical, Computer says NO.
 
He assures me we are all go.
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Nice work, Translated means fucking awesome Chris cause Im sick of getting lost on my own  ::)
 
TC said:
He assures me we are all go.


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Nice work, Translated means fucking awesome Chris cause Im sick of getting lost on my own  ::)
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Me too, I'll follow you.
I was panicking for a moment there, thought I'd have to take the Kawasaki and have to keep waiting for you blokes to catch up. :P Did you submit pics of frame and engine numbers for application?
 
I installed a spell checker called Grammarly, every now and then it stalls and the icon just spins. I then need to restart the PC. But typically if its the wrong word but spelled correctly it just goes through to the keeper. Oddly lots of my mistakes have a pun like quality by accident, maybe. The joys of dyslexia.
 
A long time ago a couple of us on bikes rode in to the Wolf Blass winery in South Australia to sample some of their wines. The man himself (Wolfgang) came out with a bottle of red wine that he thought we might appreciate. The fancy label said "Rene Pogel Shiraz". We were wondering who the fuck Rene Pogel was until he told us to read it backwards. Seems the bloke is a bit of a joker :D
 
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