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

Vince said:
That's one ugly looking thing, maybe you could use some of that wicking sealer that Loctite sells. Any structural impact with that crack.
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I need to pull the stater off to see how far that crack goes. Then put a plan in action to repair. It?s not as bad as had invisaged, before I saw it, but doubt the caused the oil under the started after having the bike on the track. Curious none the less.
 
Finally got my tank to clear the top of the Mikunis.  Used Red's angled inlet stubs along with some angled carb rubbers that Wolfgang suggested from an early '80s snowmobile. Even with that, I still had to raise the stops for the rear of the tank by 4-5 mm.
 

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New bike cover arrived today from Marty Gordon here on the forum.  Nice work - fits my 1200 almost like a custom job, and the material feels great.

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Laverdalothar said:
finally put the 1000 SFC back on its wheels. still a lot to do, but looks like a bike already...  :D will post pictures later on...
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Exhaust and carbs mounted, too. Need to fix some minor parts before I can make an appointment with OCT to first start it (promised them to do that at their site so they can check over everything again and make some adjustments if necessary). Will be on vacation the next two weeks, starting Monday next week, so will be end of July until I can get  her over to them. Hope they can squeeze it into their tight schedule...  ;)

Hope also to have Boba's beautiful Carbone parts until then. as you might know, he has a full set including tank, fairing, seat, passanger seat cover and front fender he can produce...  ;)

 
Is this MOT thing annually? All you blokes seem to shake in your boots every time it comes around.

One good thing about living where I do, is that once it?s done, it?s done for life. Unless you sell it, or allow the registration to expire.

Even then it?s pretty basic: lights get bright, blink left (puke) blink right (puke) tyres have grooves, suspension bounces, toot toot, brake light lights up, vroom volume doesn?t shatter windows, engine hasn?t morphed into a BSA (constant oil loss) and it?s done.

Then once we have the paperwork, it?s off with the indicators (as god intended).... and enjoy.
 
yes the MOT is an annual inspection ,checks brakes ,lights etc etc ,my tester is sympathetic to older bikes ,so we talk a lot while he is logged on to the computer to the dvla 
 
There's a good and and a "bad" side to it Chris.  You need to bring the sheer numbers into the equation to compare to Oz.  In Germany alone, with a population of 80-odd million, there were 63.7 million registered vehicles beginning 2018, in an area about 1/20 of the size of  Australia.  The rest of Europe is no less mobile.  EU population 2017 was 317million with roughly 290 million vehicles (bikes not counted!), total european pop. 511 million.  All on a continent only a bit larger than Oz... the vehicle concentration is a great deal higher.

The system does help to keep many unsafe vehicles off the road, but those that know what they're doing need to wade through heaps of red tape trying to get mods approved, which can be tiring at times.  Although many things have been brought into line over the past years, regulations still differ widely within the EU, each country retaining a certain amount of sovereignty. 

Granted, the testing often involves quite a bit of nit-picking, but it basically ensures road-worthiness and safety requirements are fulfilled.  If you could see the condition of many heavy vehicles from the Balkan states passing through at high speeds on the german Autobahn, you would have a great deal more understanding for a mandatory testing system!  Bald tyres and insufficient lighting are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, hardly working brakes, worn steering systems, broken axles and chassis components are very often found at road-side checks.  It's very different having a 60-ton juggernaut without brakes ploughing through a village or a road train breaking down in the middle of nowhere on the Birdsville Track. 

And don't think the bikers would be any better... :o  At least the responsibility sense of bikers seems to increase with their age, but you just need to look a the bikes of the kids to realise that many are playing with their lives.  Their road behaviour is an entire other issue.

German T?V tests are bi-annually for privately-owned vehicles, annually for commercial personal transport, taxis/busses, etc.

piet
 
It still happens here Piet, every now and then after some horribly crash the cops and Transport Inspectors raid company depos and find all sorts of major safety issues fines the crap out of them and a few years later it happens again to a different company. What would fix it is jail time for Company Directors if you knowingly allow dangerous trucks on the rd causing a death. Proving this sint easy though.
 
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