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

Some interesting places to visit in Northern France if you're into WW1 and WW2 history. Some of it quite relevant to Australia.
Dunkirk, D-Day landing sites, etc. Some of the German coastal defences are still intact. A lot of people our age will have relatives in war graves there, from both sides of the various conflicts. My (Scottish) grandfather lies in French soil.
 
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Had a great ride on Sunday, left Idstein in Germany and rode to the Ring, took a photo of the bike and moved on as it was all cars. Rode on over to Pete?s place.had a coffee and he and Dory invited me to stay the night . Went out to dinner, Dory driving her little Fiat 500 with Petein the back all folded up😂😂 In the morning Pete led me over to OCT where the bike had an oil change and a bit of a lube up of controls.
I the set off for Spa in Belgium and had a look there but again only cars so moved on into northern France trying to dodge some pretty major storm cells and failing on several occasions. Made it into St Quentin soaked. Will have a look around this part of the country today and probably look at jumping the ditch back to the UK tomorrow or the next day.
Bike has clocked up over 11000ks now😊😊👍
Tom
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Unfortunately, I couldn't make it to Idstein, I would have liked to say hello once again.
An incredible tour you did, kudos!

Cheers
Jo
 
Dellortoman said:
Some interesting places to visit in Northern France if you're into WW1 and WW2 history. Some of it quite relevant to Australia.
Dunkirk, D-Day landing sites, etc. Some of the German coastal defences are still intact. A lot of people our age will have relatives in war graves there, from both sides of the various conflicts. My (Scottish) grandfather lies in French soil.
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Corinne and I rode up from just West of Paris on Saturday, also finishing our summer tour. Plenty of Australian WW1 sites, notably around Villers Brettoneux in the Somme.

Next to Lille, Fromelles. The first engagement of Australian troops in WW1. 8000 killed in a day by seasoned German troops. You can stop by, it's on your way to the Channel.

Paul
 
Well, a couple days ago anyway. New Maxtons for the race bike. My Ohlins fell apart, I noticed oil weep from the body to tube connection when I was at Anderstorp. When I shortened them, the engineer who did the tubes ripped the thread out of the aluminium body while screwing it out, and his repair of an insert loosened so that one is rooted. Very quick service from Maxton and a hefty deposit to the kings coffers for duty, and they're on. Slightly different appearance to the ones on the street bike. New ones are gas (air) pressurised whereas the old ones aren't. If they are as good as the ones on the street bike I?ll be very happy. Will find out at Karlskoga in two weekends time. And I just realised the road bike must be worth a fortune, it has one autographed shock bolt out of four.
 

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SeFFie and I entered in the HMCCQ Centurion Run (age of rider + club eligible bike > 100 years)
Top day with a broad range of cycles running
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Norton International is one bevel-head that interests me.
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( & just for the rivet-counters; that is indeed a BMW front drum brake)

Good weather for riding, but the country is long overdue for rain. Parched land everywhere with dry dams.
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My pick of the day. '52 Harley K model. Ya gotta luv a 45ci flathead  :D
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I took my son out and rode my Aussie drummer over to PI to enjoy some time with my mates from Queensland and NSW of course Brett it was wet cold and miserable but I had to break him in as a pillion in bad conditions so he doesn't become a dry weather rider only!!!
 

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Alan (AJB) came over with vacuum gauges,shim stash and we tackled the shims and balancing of the carbs on the drummer,got all the tolerances right after re-shimming ,see old crumblies cam blocks even older than the ones i"ve seen,but in very good shape,no horrible surprises waiting within!
Balancing carbs the individual carbs with no linkage turned out ok and the bike is pretty much ready for an MOT to start the reg process.After that the cleaning starts. ;)
Big thanks to Alan,I learnt a lot today for sure.



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Had a couple of great days out, riding the tits off the SF. Ostensibly to experiment with different curves at on the DMC2 at high rpm (ended up back at '1' - what a surprise) but got lots of miles in during a warm and sunny Saturday and Sunday.

Now have a loud grinding/graunching from rear hub. Thinking its a broken shoe-return spring or maybe a stone got into the venting scoops.
 
Paul H said:
Had a couple of great days out, riding the tits off the SF. Ostensibly to experiment with different curves at on the DMC2 at high rpm (ended up back at '1' - what a surprise) but got lots of miles in during a warm and sunny Saturday and Sunday.

Now have a loud grinding/graunching from rear hub. Thinking its a broken shoe-return spring or maybe a stone got into the venting scoops.
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Or a bearing...

Paul
 
A link plate let loose by broken split pins. I use a tiny dab of mig weld on mine now, had that too many times. Aught to replace all the bushes and pins regularly shouldn't I. Moot point ?cause it has the Z1000 disc rear hub on it now.
 
... and full marks go to Mr. Marx

Worn sprocket-carrier bearing seals had let a bit of grit in and the noise was greatly amplified by the pressed steel conical shield. An irregular noise, but nevertheless bearing related.

All fixed and tickety-boo.

Paolo.

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Or a bearing...

Paul
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Serviced Argy.. M Muir reckons I need to get out more.. fired up just fine... :LOL:

Serviced Monty.. off to Eastern Creek for the next BEARS meeting.. just for LOLs.. love rotating at that place.. :P

And Mitzy.. the race van.. fired up just fine as well.. ;)

Reckon I'm good in the shed for the day.. 3 chores, 3 results..

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Lucky you Ian.  I managed to arrange a ride day, I pulled 880SFC out from under its cover, geared up, fired it up, about to put helmet on ....  ??? Smoke!

Shut it down, look where smoke is coming from, oil leaking from neutral switch straight onto the 2/1.

No riding that one, so I went to fire up the Kawasaki, flat battery  ::)
Suzuki still on the boat ......... I give up.

Pack bikes away, riding gear off ........ battery charger on, and ......... beer on.  :D

 
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