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

Yep, I love those 2 minute jobs that end up taking a week. Chewed up a drive belt on the mower 2 weeks ago. Bought a new belt. Easy fit, takes about 10 minutes. Dropped the deck to it's lowest setting and then found that the idler puller was fucked and that was what chewed out the belt. So back to the dealer, new pulley obtained. Have to remove the deck from the mower to fit the pulley so compressor on and rattle gun at the ready. Lost air pressure in the rattle gun and found that the compressor had blown the short hose between the tank and the filter/regulator. So hand tools to fix the mower and then off to the compressor dealer to have a new hose made up. And the Laverda, got the forks sorted but thanks to everything else haven't had time to fit them to the bike.
 
That smoke orange looks the dog danglies Brett - could that Beeza be a 441 Victa - in the good old days we had four stroke scrambling on the TV quite regularly on a Suturday afternoon - they were hard people - it's where Murray Walker cut his teeth on commentary ( an English Ritchie Benaud)
 
For car racing yes but he was a bike racer in his youth and commentated on the TT - i met him at the Goodwood revival  incidentally my favourite Australian-  Troy Corsa - in the relaxed atmosphere of no pressure both were a fascinating listen and wer quite happy to spin the breeze
 

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Didnt do a thing with any of mine as was working  but when I pulled in from work driving a flash LDV, noted that I did have a couple of  esteemed chaps from up North had dropped in and there was a Laverda involved ...............so we paid a visit to the local Thai for a feed that even Vince would have been happy with.

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Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond said:
incidentally my favourite Australian-  Troy Corsa -
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think you will find majority of Australians would vote for Troy Bayliss over Troy Corser in the popularity stakes

Maxene and I meet both at Brno one year, world superbike meeting, Bayliss was great, very friendly, nothing fazed him, and he won both races
hard to even get a grunt out of Corser

same meeting Garry McCoy was riding WSS and broke his leg in practice

 
I am sure he is a good guy as well never met him though , very popular in England when on World Superbike  - strangely met Troy a second time at an event celebrating the life of a Jouno who died on the job and again he was very sociable so who knows - i ducked from a pillion ride  :D
 

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3 times in the past 15 years I have had this happen. Its bloody annoying when it rears its ugly head again. So I arrive at Bretts last week to pick up the bike after he had waved his magic spanners at it, and we, Brett myself and Chris Pritt decided to do a lunch ride to test out my bike. It lasted 150m up the road from the start, I noticed immediately when selecting 1st gear that the gear lever was stiff. And trying for 2nd gear wasn't happening, for the 3rd time over the years my rearset gear lever had nipped up. Seizing is too strong a description. It was as stiff as my Pantahs fork action. This happens without any warning, but only if it's not ridden for a couple of weeks or so. One quick squirt of a can of lube fixed it. In the past, I have tried dripping the dipstick as an emergency fix, didnt work as it doest penetrate enough. That time I rode to a mates place stuck in 3rd gear, not fun up the bloody big hill I was on. Its the shaft that the rearset gear lever pivots on, just like last time when I am home I pull it down finding it completely dry with a fine rust scale on the shaft, I give it a light sand and pack it with the water-resistant trailer grease. Bet it happens again in 5 years or so. I was almost close to adding a grease nipple but the way its constructed it doesn't look like a viable option. Am I the only recipient of this trick. Bloody old motorbikes.
 
1000 kms later we're home, a big shout out to Brett for dinner last night, Yogi for the bed and some very tasty beer last night, and biggest of all Levo for sharing the driving, putting up with my grumpiness yesterday, talking crap for 20 hours, snoring in the passenger seat and showing me where all his roots and crashes had been all over central coast of NSW, really very appreciated Levo, you're a champ :)

Now how to get it registered tomorrow.......
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Went for a ride on the Jota yesterday. Came home via a road I haven't been on for a long time (Pelverata Road south of Hobart) it's steep and twisty, part gravel and part sealed. The gravel bit had some pretty bad corrugations which nearly shook the fillings out of my teeth. The sealed part of the road wasn't a whole lot better with bumps, pot-holes and badly done patches. By the time I got back onto a more civilised road, I noticed that my charging system was no longer working (got a digital voltmeter on the dash). I still had sufficient voltage in the battery to feed the ignition system and it was only about 30 mins to get home so I continued on home with the bike running on total loss, keeping an eye on the voltmeter. I figured it would be easier to diagnose and fix at home in the workshop than dicking around on the side of the road.

When I checked it out after getting home, I found that the wire to the fuse between the RR and battery had shaken off the spade connector on the fuse box. I don't think I'll be doing that bloody rough road again any time soon!

 
Dellortoman said:
When I checked it out after getting home, I found that the wire to the fuse between the RR and battery had shaken off the spade connector on the fuse box. I don't think I'll be doing that bloody rough road again any time soon! Or using those spade connectors will replace with decent ones
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Fixed  :D
 
Hmm when changing the needle settings on the Cico noticed something untoward on the Jota so decided to fix it as the rivet counter inside of me couldnt bear it any more... interesting that none of the "rivet counters" picked it up, even though there are heaps of photos of that bike with Giovanni on it..............dont worry by next time you see it will be sorted.
 
Dellortoman said:
When I checked it out after getting home, I found that the wire to the fuse between the RR and battery had shaken off the spade connector on the fuse box.
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Sounds like a rough road!  Depending on the quality of the spade terminal, the crimp used to fit it, wire size, age, (dare I say it!) vibration, etc etc... it's not unknown for spade terminals to be looser than ideal.  Not a bad idea to run around and check they are all a good fit on their spade and that they 'snap' into position, a calibrated gronk with a set of pliers is sometimes necessary to restore the correct fit.  Also there are terminals designed to be used on their own, and ones designed to be used in terminal blocks which have their own retention tags.
 
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