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

Brett said:
Sounds like my RGS trick keeps everyone on their toes...

Love that green 3CL brings back memories
So we got two Lav's

Was good to catch up with Chris he was respectively dress in black  :o
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  It's a fine line between red and orange, here is my tank that I'm fixing, same tank different lighting,
 

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My bike was Orange for a while and I got sick of doing the why story so I decided to go Red. I wanted it as red as possible but some bits I also wanted powder coated so down I go and look at the 2 reds the powder coater had. One was more a crimson so I went for the really bright red called signal red. I then got the rest of the bits colour matched in 2 pack, after the bits are painted I went with another person to pick them up. Heading home I got a bit worried and started asking the other person if the bits looked as red as some of the cars we were passing, the answer I got back was well NO, it's more Orange than that car.And buggar me it is pretty Orange in certain lights.Seems Orange is hard to avoid for Laverdas.
 
Vince said:
My bike was Orange for a while and I got sick of doing the why story so I decided to go Red. I wanted it as red as possible but some bits I also wanted powder coated so down I go and look at the 2 reds the powder coater had. One was more a crimson so I went for the really bright red called signal red. I then got the rest of the bits colour matched in 2 pack, after the bits are painted I went with another person to pick them up. Heading home I got a bit worried and started asking the other person if the bits looked as red as some of the cars we were passing, the answer I got back was well NO, it's more Orange than that car.And buggar me it is pretty Orange in certain lights.Seems Orange is hard to avoid for Laverdas.
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Vince, once you try black, you?ll never go back.

Yogi
 
Here is another colour story. My other road bike is yellow, don't ask the idiot previous owner wanted something different. So it needed the standard Pantah graphics to break it up a bit and I was tawn between black and the Kenny Roberts look and red, more typical but not standard Pantah look. Usually there fully red with yellow graphics. I settled on the red graphics, but once they were fixed on the bike it made an odd visual effect. It made the once vivid yellow now look like mustard. Kida odd effect now, I should have done a Yogi and gone black graphics.
 
Thanks Maurice it is, high praise indeed! I saw one at Oro's and was smitten then,

Will take some more and with the double seat when the snow clears!!
 
Brett said:
I didnt, sent you a PM
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And I thank you kind Sir.

Back home after a few days in Sydney. Serious night out with some of my coworkers.
Opened the garage door to check out my r/h gear change, looks just like it did before I left. Can't post pictures, because my computer and phone are not on speaking terms  :(
 
Been continuing the recommissioning of the Eagle.
Fitted new steering head bearings today, ball at top and tapered at bottom. (Bike had sealed ball bearings at top and bottom ???) Fully dismantled and cleaned carbs and replaced washers & o rings. Fitted new mechanical advance unit, cleaned up points base plate and points and generally cleaned a few moving part type places. Looks like sawdust around the front sprocket (which looks like new) so clutch arm was stiff and dry and clutch cable adjuster screw had broken off in side cover >:( Managed to pull cable out and with judicious use of a suitable size screwdriver managed to unscrewed the broken part out - How's that :D Front brake drum had grease around pivot points (which looked like a problem waiting to happen) and the cam pivots were actually very stiff in their bore from dried grease and did not operate properly. Cleaned them up and hopefully will work as they should. Obviously had a battery leak at some stage and chain guard is stained as well as battery area. Battery box and tool box obviously had a cursory clean and someone gave it a quick hit with some green spray paint which oversprayed wherever:o Bit of steel wool and it came off the frame rails ok but am going to have to give the battery box and tool box a bit more attention and paint. Wasn't planning on painting anything, but....
Hopefully get to the wiring over the next week or so and connect all the wires where they should be (missing a few "grub" screws from the ignition panel :'() and reassemble front forks with new seals and working damper rod piston ;) and move on to some other areas.............
Having a ball working on this old dear!
 
chrisk said:
Pete, I will be up you way over the next week, well, Rocky Ponds for a couple of days, and then Townsville. Will poke my nose in and checkout Eddy, if that's OK.
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Yeh, that'd be good Chris. Give me a bell (or text)when you know when you're coming through.
 
The plan was to go for a short test run on the RGS since putting it back together.. well the short run turned into a run out to Grey Gums for brunch. Was good to see Kerry she seems to be getting on OK considering. Quite a few bikes there only one Laverda but

As the plan was short run fuel was in short supply in the tank it seems........being that one of the things that was done since last ride was replaced the BAP taps with real ones..... however with the good ole BAPS used to get around 40K on reserve........well about a mile from the Servo going up the hill well it was all over red rover.

A good samaritan pulled up, asked what the prob was told her out of fuel, she says wait here as only live round the corner... 5 mins later she's back with hubby and a gallon of fuel... turns out he was a motorcyclist also albeit a highly dangerous owner but hey its all good.

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Get it off the centre stand before revving it. When mine was as good as new I fired it up on choke, had to run back into the house to grab something, and it had walked backwards half off the slab and fell over, putting an RSJ beam across the middle of the tank.
Good to hear you have got it happening again, and it can stay together for some fun miles now.
 
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