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

Just because I am a fussy type, I have a 3mm thick needle roller bearing between the steering head nut and the fairing mounts on both the 3C and Pantah. Takes any friction load of the nut from the fairing weight. Probably not worth the effort but I like to do this stuff.
 
Received another couple of bits today and was able to mount and connect the speedo and tacho. Mounted the tach first, held my breath, started the bike and tacho worked beautifully, nice smooth action , no wavering. Next connected the speedo and took it for a ride. Didn't look like it would work, then after getting going a bit it also started working and again no wavering or jerkiness!! Now, not saying they will continue to work (or accurate) as both appear to move about in their casings, (presume perished mounting rubbers) but at least I can take it to my friendly roadworthy guy and get a bit of paper to get it registered so I can ride it legally..........very happy.
 
Took a couple bits of paper to local transport office yesterday and after a bit of computer massaging my Eagle is now registered  :D
Didn't want to confuse the issue too much so requested it be registered as a Laverda American Eagle (model). Funny enough couldn't find a Laverda American Eagle (only GTL or SF) on their data base :o, but didn't matter as chassis number was not recognised anyway so they had to create the model. So it is registered as a 1969 Laverda American eagle..............
 
Shajota said:
Took a couple bits of paper to local transport office yesterday and after a bit of computer massaging my Eagle is now registered  :D
Didn't want to confuse the issue too much so requested it be registered as a Laverda American Eagle (model). Funny enough couldn't find a Laverda American Eagle (only GTL or SF) on their data base :o , but didn't matter as chassis number was not recognised anyway so they had to create the model. So it is registered as a 1969 Laverda American eagle..............
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Vince said:
Just because I am a fussy type, I have a 3mm thick needle roller bearing between the steering head nut and the fairing mounts on both the 3C and Pantah. Takes any friction load of the nut from the fairing weight. Probably not worth the effort but I like to do this stuff.
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Blimey Vince. I thought I had a tendency to over-design things.  But I've never bothered with a bearing for a fairing mount on top of the steering nut. I just let it swivel on a M6 bolt. The nearest I've ever got to putting a bearing in that application is to make the centre mounting doohickey out of plastic. As you can see in the attached photo of my RGS mongrel.

BTW, if the swivel mount is taking some of the weight of the fairing, a needle roller is the wrong choice of bearing because it won't carry any axial load. You'd have been better off with a ball bearing.  :D
 

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Its got a load, it's my attempt to jack up the fairing as high as possible so my poor old back is a bit straighter. It was needed to help clear the handlebars, also as high as possible, at full lock.
 
Just sent some pics to Cam to load on here for me: New fairing stay, foot controls, and mounts I made up for them.

Breather works a treat, no more fuel smear around the filler cap.

Have a look in the 'Tips and how to' thread.
 
Ok, didn't think the shiners were interested in something that still looks old and neglected :o
Now remember, this isn't a resto, more like a resurrection :-\. Trying to keep it in original condition although still tossing up what to do........ Running beautifully, will try and get young bloke to upload a video:-

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Shajota said:
Ok, didn't think the shiners were interested in something that still looks old and neglected :o
Now remember, this isn't a resto, more like a resurrection :-\. Trying to keep it in original condition although still tossing up what to do........ Running beautifully, will try and get young bloke to upload a video:-
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... great bike! Much better than any high gloss restauration!
Ciao, Gert
 
Shajota said:
Ok, didn't think the shiners were interested in something that still looks old and neglected :o
Now remember, this isn't a resto, more like a resurrection :-\ . Trying to keep it in original condition although still tossing up what to do........ Running beautifully, will try and get young bloke to upload a video:-
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That is really neat!! :D :D
 
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