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

CLEMTOG said:
got TOG out of the workshop yesterday for a quick blat, and intending on degreasing, cleaning, washing, pressure wash etc, but she wouldn't start!, now she never does that not even if the battery is tired and the cranking rate worryingly slow, but yesterday? she wouldn't go, she popped a few times, stuttered for a second or three then nothing, as the battery was giving out, I sussed it! when last returning home she had gone onto reserve! and I was starting her on main, oh well, a short trip out, put in a few litres and soon returned home, not properly dressed and it was cold, too cold in fact to contemplate the washing, which I need to do, because she is going onto the ramp for a few servicing type bits and a thorough polish, cant do either of those with her looking grubby.
CLEM
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Clem
Beat yourself up not, been there done that, bet most would fess up to having been blindsided by this... more a phenomenon these days seems to be what with modern fuels which seem to "disappear out of the bowls" more quicker than in the past. 
Better you get to cleaning............
 
Had a customer once come back after picking his bike up, furiously raving and ranting, we were the worst shithead workshop in the world as his bike broke down a few miles away. We picked it up and it had of course Clem?s problem. To his credit when the guy came in the next day to get it he ate his humble pie and was just as apologetic as he had been furious. The other classic is bikes stranded with the kill switch off.
 
V5C arrived finally for 1580 , 200mm headlamp 3C, Early Christmas.  :D :D :D

Big thanks to  Scott, Maurice and Gert, Scrumpy and Alan for the extra information and invaluable help!, pics will follow before and after some little jobbies.
 
You are going to enjoy that 3C Shaun not the most powerful bike but such a delight to ride.
Yesterday Deb and I took off on my Orphan red 3C and burnt a couple of tanks of fuel going to the Victoria club christmas party 26 degrees perfect riding weather and that old bike is such a ripping machine, I leaned over my shoulder and asked my lovely passenger if she knew how old this bike was and she suggested maybe 25 years when I replied 43 years the response was one of quite suprise, that was just the excuse for me to twist that throttle harder
 
Thanks Maurice ,can"t wait!, I just love it"s lines too, classic, simple, perfection.  btw  (if i told Helen how old I was, she "d say is that all you sure?........ :D :D)
 
LJ said:
Thanks Maurice ,can"t wait!, I just love it"s lines too, classic, simple, perfection.  btw  (if i told Helen how old I was, she "d say is that all you sure?........ :D :D)
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I wouldn't call a 230 kg behemoth, DOHC 4 stroke triple with twin discs, simple.

Paul
 
Paul Marx said:
I wouldn't call a 230 kg behemoth, DOHC 4 stroke triple with twin discs, simple.
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It was the lines of the bike he was talking about.
Anyway, just about as simple as your 220kg SOHC twin.  :D
 
3C Arrived today, just a few original parts already  to fit,and colour change
 

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started to sort out the stainless silencers on TOG, they were not new when "obtained" by me from a wreck at Ralphs, the bike had been down on both sides and they were scratched underneath, where not visible and on the tail end where I polished the marks out, that was about 20 years ago, and now I find that the inlet stubs have become (very strangely) thin and unusable, potentially a problem, to the point where the clamps were covering the "thinness" so its time for a repair, I wonder how that erosion took place?
CLEM
 

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LJ said:
3C Arrived today, just a few original parts already  to fit,and colour change
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Welcome to the club, Shaun, nice one. These early birds are such fine rides. Just built for purpose, totally lacking any kind of BS added just for looking fancy. You gonna love it. 8)

@Clem: Think it's small movements from thermal cycling and vibration, cracking up the protective oxide layer of the stainless steel at the clamping points over and over again, causing constant material loss.
 
Welcome to the club, Shaun, nice one. These early birds are such fine rides. Just built for purpose, totally lacking any kind of BS added just for looking fancy. You gonna love it. 8)

Thank you, spot on ,I really am :D
 
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