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

henrywillms said:
You Aussies would not know cold if it bit in you in the ass....but if you need an excuse for a beer, I'm sure it was colder than a witches tit.
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We don't need no excuses for a beer, the fact that we're not dead is excuse enough and yer right about not knowing what cold is, must be why we're overrun with fecking pommy bastids....
 
Talking about cold weather I took my youngest boy out on the Alpino yesterday and it was about 8 degrees in the sun brrr lucky that bike makes so much noise it distracts you from the cold.
 

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Removed motor from frame today :), thanks Red for that pic of how you do it , very handy.
now all I have to do is straighten the left hand down tube and im of to the painters :D :D

 

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took TOG out for an airing yesterday, doing a Vintage club run, from Ide Hill (local to me) right down through Kent and Sussex ending up at a very pleasant country pub for lunch and then an alternate route back, al of them small country roads, only crossing the bigger ones when necessary. Around 130 miles ridden today starting at 0930 and getting back home at 1700, not a very high average speed! take into account around 90 minutes stopped for lunch and you get the picture.
The Old Duffer turned out on his Kawasaki 550 and he seemed OK, but with his 83rd birthday looming he chose to leave the 1200Anni at home, telling me that he now has to do more than 20MPH at all times on it,  or its a bit wobbly, so very slow country roads he is now avoiding with that bike. He is however hatching plans to go to Breganze in 2019, which will be as he approaches his 84th birthday.
CLEM
 
Dellortoman said:
I can see why your bike hasn't been running right Tom. The intake spigots are blocked.  ;)
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dammit I wish Id seen that before I pulled the whole thing apart, now where did I put those Dellorto thingies? :D
 
Just polished the Laverda and installed some long wished for small rubber "handles" for the side mirrors. Pretty tired now after 10 hour working day, so driving will be tomorrow.

Kind regards,
Jacques
 
Looks good, Grant. I'm a big fan of airboxes - had planned to accommodate my FCRs into the std SF airbox, but need to rethink it due to access. Maybe a car flexible intake tube might be adaptable to join bellmouth to SF airbo? If I change to smaller bellmouths I can use the original rubber intake tubes. New bellmouths is a big expense on FCRs - and I like the shape of the Keihin ones that came with them (from a GSX-R1100 Suzuki). If nec, I'll just fit a large foam sock filter over the whole intake assembly - bit fugly, but better than zip.
 
Cleaned, fixed up a frame mount that was left over from the old gearshift crossover, painted, polished, and more polish. Looks good, then opened up the taps  ::) fuel pissing out of right carb ....... the plastic hose mount to the carb was loose, go figure. Tightened that and starter didn?t want to engage, fuck me. The crunch at the end of starter spin meant it engaged, another push of the button and it fired it up.

Once warm, would only run on one, just of idle (and I mean just off) a little throttle and two bangers  :o ..... 100% miffed, could be water ingress at the plug leads.

So it?s all ready for the Concours tomorrow, hopefully Bruce will have his fancy camera there, for calendar shot or two.

 
took TOG out yesterday eveing on a short run to the Pat Mahoney bike night nearby, a trip of 22 miles by motorway or 18 by country lanes, so chose the latter, the ride reminded me that I currently have a broken speedo cable (a recycled item that was in any case too long for common sense) and a very week gearbox return spring which was pointed out to me by Mc Sock a fortnight ago, now its worse and gear selection is a bit hap hazard, its not broken, just weakened, the huge mileage that it has done has actually worn it out, I have seen them broken, and wrongly installed, but never worn out and weak, pre-empting the situation, I have already had delivered to me a new cable and spring from Dickkie the four eyed brummie. trouble is I don't feel like doing the repairs "on the ground" and my 1958 350 AJS is currently blocking the work ramp, having a cylinder head overhaul, so yesterday I could have gone on my pan European, but that was blocked in by my son Davids transit van which is having a new drivers foot well welded in and because of that was tempted to use his Fireblade, but couldn't find the door keys for his shed, the Chevvy was parked up near the front door and might not fit the small lanes, so TOG and no speedo + bad gearchange it was, could have always stayed home and watched shite on TV
CLEM
 
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