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

My indicators stopped working. The tester let it through anyway as they had been working to start with. Brand new indicators that came with the globes fitted. Pulled them apart when I got home to find they all had 6V globes.
 
Finally got my 3C back from having the tank kreme stripped out of its guts. Someone in their infinite wisdom had doesed it about 12 years ago but left all the kreme in ....... it was an inch thick in the corners. Took acetone and half a dozen other chemicals to get it stripped out ..... and that only took a few months as it had to sit for days waiting to soften the crud.

The tank is now at the painters ....... hoping the next post will be some photo's of the finished product.
 
I made to stupid decision to use that shit on a Triumph tank mega years ago. I was thinking the other day it being white it must be PVA based, it was an epic fail. The bottom of the tank ended up being cut out to get rid of it.
 
The seat on my AE had a faint outline and 2 mounting holes on the rear where presumably a badge had been attached. I ordered one of those Lav seat badges (the small ones use I believe) and it arrived today. Drilled a couple of holes in badge and it fitted to spot perfectly. Very nice metal badge....
Anyway, I quite like the understated elegance :D
 

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Yesterday: 170 odd miles to Knutsford, lost satnav on the m6 to suction cup failure. Oh well!

Today: 220 miles to Glasgow mainly on motorway. Then 170 more miles to Inverness up the A9 which was very scenic but very boring otherwise. Beatiful weather, bike running nicely but consuming oil.
Stocked up on 20w50 ready for the rest of the NC500
 
Well, couldn't find anything on the net so I actually did a search on here and found a query not very long ago about a supplier of these and of course Piet had the answer:-
http://www.abziehbilderservice.de/Start.htm
I did send emails etc and very good communication and service. Great little badge, just have to drill the mounting holes.
 
Fixed the ignition switch on the Flying Bogie (SF0). It was worn to the point that there was an intermittent 'off' when going over bumpy roads. A bit of cleaning and adjustemnt - to compensate for mechanical wear - has it all tickety boo again. Once more I spend many hours to fix something that is, these days, functionaly replacable for pennies. Still, at least it's the Bosch switch and not a Chinese thing with unknown internal quality.
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Paul H said:
Once more I spend many hours to fix something that is, these days, functionaly replacable for pennies.
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I do that all the time. It pisses me off to chuck away something that's fixable, especially the original design can be improved in the process.
 
Got some 10mm 6061 Ali plate so that I can fabricate some adaptors to mount 4 pot Brembos on my Ceriani forks. They seem to be unobtanium these days.
 
Davo said:
Got some 10mm 6061 Ali plate so that I can fabricate some adaptors to mount 4 pot Brembos on my Ceriani forks. They seem to be unobtanium these days.
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https://www.eurobrit.com.au/store/Brake+Accessories/Brembo+Caliper+Adaptors+40+x+280#productdetails
 
blab said:
https://www.eurobrit.com.au/store/Brake+Accessories/Brembo+Caliper+Adaptors+40+x+280#productdetails
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Thanks Blab, I have a set the same as those from Guzzitech. They only work with Marzocchi forks. They are designed to mount on the outside of the fork lugs and that leaves about a 55mm gap to the caliper mounts. They are too thick to mount on the inside of the Ceriani lugs and grinding them away to fit does not leave enough "meat" to give me reassurance they would be safe.
 
Replaced pivot bush in SF's clutch lever. It wasn't too bad for ovaling but DPO haf fitted a full thread screw as the male pivot and so it was a bit buggered. A few mm of valuable cable travel were being lost. A very quick job. I went for an oilite bush, maybe a bit soft, but so easy to replace and less than a ? each.
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At my RGS after the German Forum Meeting at Sigis place in Hohenpei?enberg, a place with outstanding view to the alps, I had to change my rear tyre- wires to be seen :o.
So today, new rear tyre, new brake pads all three, oil and ready to go ...Andre
 
Paul H said:
Replaced pivot bush in SF's clutch lever. <snip>  I went for an oilite bush, <snip>
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Thanks for the post, Paul.  Haven't come across those before.  Looks good.  Where did you get it from?

Ciao

Craig
 
Been traveling for work, the last fortnight. Between meals and drinks on a flight I had a horrible thought. Was trying to work out where the oil accumulated under the starter motor came from when I had the twin on the track.

Then recalled someone here mentioning the same thing, due to a crack at the rear starter motor mount. (Rowdy Pat I think)

Got home, kissed the dog and kicked the Mrs, went to bike and had a good look  :o :o
Sure enough ........ rear starter motor mount has grown a vagina.  And explains why the starter/generator cover holes a a tad hard to align.

I presume the only fix is to have it welded up before genital multilation sets in.

 
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