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

Fitted a new condenser which has fixed an annoying intermittent miss. The miss was only in 5th gear and usually occurred briefly if accelerating around 4,000 revs, then would appear on and off at higher revs.( Think on some occasions may have noticed it in 4thgear) When I checked one condenser was loose on its (rusty) rivet (condenser also looked in poor shape so changed for a new one) 
Looked at rivet fixing and thought it might be problematic to use nut and bolt without vibrating loose so decided to rivet new one on.
Normally would do a search of the forum to look for any relevant dos or don?ts, however, unfortunately, had a quick look after fitting and found a comment (Paul M) that said ?as a matter of courser? rivets should be replaced! Oh well, will make some time later and do them both, just presume loctite or nyloc?????
Anyway all running very sweetly, back to trying different size mains
 
Spent hours changing fork oil, from 10 weight to 5 weight  >:(

Trying to seat the damper rods was a pain in the arse. Remembering the forks are 46mm Conventional fork of a Suzuki. I managed to download a Suzuki manual, and scoffed at the need for special tool, until the damper rods spun freely while trying to tighten the cap screws that locate and seal the damper rods.

Tried upping the damper, hoping the extra spring  tension would help .... not.

Pull everything apart, start again and made up a special tool .... Part no.WBH.

Successful use of the Wooden Broom Handle stuffed down each fork did the trick.

Put everything back together, wheel back on, new speedo rare earth magnet fitted to the rotor carrier and I now have a slightly more softer front end and a speedo that works.

Test ride was the best part, couldn?t get the front brake to lock up, which was causing me issues, and partly the reason fork the oil change.  8)



 
Chris, rattle gun on that alan bolt.Quick burst will nip it before the spinning of the rod. Even a cordless one works.Just about all modern suspension used 5wt
 
Just been driving back from visiting family....... my brain was in bike gear, and I?ve just had an epiphany........ more to follow when I confirm my thoughts.

Enter one hydraulic clutch for a twin ... watch this space.
 
chrisk said:
Just been driving back from visiting family....... my brain was in bike gear, and I?ve just had an epiphany........ more to follow when I confirm my thoughts.

Enter one hydraulic clutch for a twin ... watch this space.
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have a hydraulic clutch here that will bolt straight on

 
Vince said:
Chris, rattle gun on that alan bolt.Quick burst will nip it before the spinning of the rod. Even a cordless one works.Just about all modern suspension used 5wt
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Rattle gun or household electric drill on hammer position.

Paul
 
redax5 said:
have a hydraulic clutch here that will bolt straight on
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If my idea fails, I may well take you up on that Red.

Those train carriage springs you fitted to my clutch are so heavy on my left hand, even with the Easy Clutch arm, it makes me not want to pull up to a stop, and if can?t find neutral before stopping find myself grunting until the lights turn green.

On the plus side, have found no slip with the Kevlar plates and heavy duty springs.

Must go, have to head off to shops to buy myself a new dress.
 
Spent a bit of time in the mancave preparing some much needed lighter bits and bobs for the SFC1000. Would have been installed today as well, if it hadn't been for the nasty stomac bacteria I caught up in the high Caucasus Mountains last week, which demanded me to run to the toilet... ;(

Anyway, to be installed asap.

Vivere la velocit? con intelligenza,
Jacques
 
Got out for the final ride of the season - this was taken today near Canmore, Alberta.  Beautiful fall weather here now (after a nasty early winter storm 3 weeks ago), nothing like riding the Laverda on days like this.

Feel pretty lucky to have scenery like this within 45 min of my house, at least for 6 months of the year  :)
 

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Down the shed with young bloke.. more work for the Formula.. we had planned to build the brakes and paint the exhaust.. but being a diligent little Laverda apprentice, Joe thought we should check the shims after the first couple of running in runs.. Leakdown was a bit poor also, so need to get the bottom of it.
Sure enough, re shim required on 2 exhaust valves, and the rest were a bit out as well.
Setting it up at TDC to break the chain was a bit of a pain.. ;) as one of the cams was on a bucket and wanted to rotate.. until.. yes we remember now.. Old Uncle Red showed us that all we had to do was find the relaxed position of both cams and just mark the chain and sprockets at that point. As long as the motor doesn't move, just put it back to the same marks.. "who needs TDC when you have Red to guide you.." Good job done, and time for a beer..
Thanks Red

8)
 
Making the most of the good weather and have been using the old girl to commute to work.  Took a cheeky half day holiday today and popped to the seaside (post beach race) :-)
 

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LJ said:
Nice shot,did you go to the beach race? Been years back,but said it was ?20 a ticket!
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No I didn't Shaun. Yeah, it was something like ?25 a ticket. Haven't been for about 20 years. I think Dave Thorpe was in it last time I went!
 
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