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

ah yes nick, but did you know that painter was sacked by his dad for puking and shitting at the same time in a customers finished car, while it cooked in the paint oven and he had fallen into a semi comatose state?
he is now close to destitute living in an unsanitised camper that you or I would not go closer than 20 yards from, and its in a farm yard which is that of a milking herd, and the shit is literally scraped up every day by tractor, around his camper, I can smell the pong when driving by and I don't mean the cow shit.

that folks, is what class A can do to you.

you are very lucky to have got it back Nicko
CLEM
 
Rear end fun (there's your 'in' for some toilet talk, Chris  :-*) - getting bike #2 ready for the triumph legend rear wheel - bike will be made up from spare parts and I needed chain adjusters, so wy not waste countless hours I don't have making some blingo alloy ones??!!  :-X
Ss some long hours on the Emco (Compact Eight). It's not a big lathe and the milling is total mother-of-invention stuff, using old vertical slides and a Myford dividing head bolted on to the crossbed (sometimes precariously!) of the little Emco. Never been trained as a machinist, so important things like cutting speeds and feed rates (all manual) have to be learnt through trial and error - and the lathe bed isn't solid the way it would be if it were a dedicated mill bed, so vibration and chatter can be a problemo.

The chainline on the Triumph hub was way too wide, so the cush bearing housing was narrowed and the bearing recess bored deeper; sprocket mounting face ditto, shorter studs, added thread.

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Said chain adjusters in place. The disc that came with the hub was huge and heavy. Machined off the mounting stubs on the hub and had to machine angled flange that would mate with the angled mating flange on the new disc carrier (Yamaha 125 disc to be fitted). Tricky little mother of a job, this one!!

Rim (Akront 4.25x17) came with the wheel, which is why I bought it - but it saves me 2kg on the Kwaka Z1000 hub that's been on bike #1 for 30 years. Next job is to try and find a 38T 520 sprocket that will fit the 5-bolt triumph cush drive. might have to make an alloy carrier and bolt a sprocket to that.


 

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other side of the flange - sorry they are separate posts - can't seem to get more than one into each entry.

 

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Piranha Brother 2 said:
Next job is to try and find a 38T 520 sprocket that will fit the 5-bolt triumph cush drive. might have to make an alloy carrier and bolt a sprocket to that.
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just buy a blank 38T x 520 sprocket and make your own, that is what I do with our custom stuff
have to make our own sprockets for the GSXR wheel conversions and custom sprockets for both race bikes
fairly straightforward after what you have just accomplished

good job, looks great
 
redax5 said:
just buy a blank 38T x 520 sprocket and make your own, that is what I do with our custom stuff
have to make our own sprockets for the GSXR wheel conversions and custom sprockets for both race bikes
fairly straightforward after what you have just accomplished

good job, looks great
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Cool nanas. Thanks Red. Do you buy blanks from Metal Gear or ... somewhere else? In the past I've been able to buy Kwaka sprockets 'off the shelf' but nothing doing in anything smaller than a 42 (and in 530) for a trumpet.

I should post some pics of the 'tower of bolt-ons' I use to achieve some of this stuff on what is basically a large model maker's lathe. In the next life I'll have a Bridport, and and ... (and the know-how to do it right!).
 
Well, not my bikes, but bikes that have been repaired/overhauled by me at OCT over the winter months.  All due for test rides, yesterday was the first day allowing proper 40-50km test rides without the danger of salting customers bikes from top to bottom.  Lots of salt on the roads this winter, but thankfully washed away by the heavy rains in the past 2 weeks.

It's a shit job for sure, but somebody has to do it... :D

piet
 

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Salt on roads what the :) :) I took the 77 Jota out for more settling in had to watch out for the salt that was spraying over the Great Ocean Road from Bells Beach and the Rip Curl Pro 25 degrees and clear sunny skies.
Oh yes that old Jota is such a joy it wont take long to wind 1000kms on for a head tension shim check etc.
Bloody Kangaroos everywhere I hope those idiots like black bikes!!
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
Ss some long hours on the Emco (Compact Eight). It's not a big lathe
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Used to flog those to model makers for turning up tiny parts for their model steam engines &tc.
 
motoddrob said:
Was a model maker for 40 odd years and I never built a steam engine! :D
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For some reason they were the "big thing" among the old farts in Esperance. Too many retired cockies with time on their hands I guess.
 
I took the 1200 series 1 for a ride.
It has a few improvements:
forged, high compression pistons
Big valve head
Jota silencers
Airbox gutted
It really goes like stink, lots of torque. I am still running the standard A11 cams, not sure if it is worth putting 4Cs in.
The clutch, however is nasty! Need to have another go at it...


Steve
 
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