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

aebbern said:
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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Does your 1200 have stainless rotors? They look very  ::) ......... not rusty.
 
charging entry for a beach race is an interesting one, since the land between the high and low water marks is owned by the crown (ie HRH the Queen) it is available freely to the general public under rights of way laws? the exceptions are in PERMANENT dangerous or secure areas, such as docks, MOD land etc
or did I get that wrong.

my son Tom has raced there a few times and it is just too busy and manic from a competitors or spectators point of view, and too many competition and road bikes nicked during the weekend as well.
CLEM
 
Tom has done that one as well and was right up the derriere of regular winner George Pickering who lives 5 miles away and is a top level flat tracker, he also has his own flat track circuit on his farm, which is used as part of the UK 8 round series plus a transport company with about ten HGV's
not bad for a 25 year old!

Tom has stated that he wont do beach racing again, because of the rust and corrosion he found on his bike up to 6 months and even a year later, despite copious pressure washing with clean water, at the track, and again back home the following day.

There must be something you can put into water to neutralise or remove sea salt surely?
CLEM
 
CLEMTOG said:
Tom has stated that he wont do beach racing again, because of the rust and corrosion he found on his bike up to 6 months and even a year later, despite copious pressure washing with clean water, at the track, and again back home the following day
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Small obvious tip - never buy a motocross bike shortly after the beach race
 
After various unforseen problems I finally hauled the engine out of my 3C to put all the head studs back in the right way round, ready for its trip to Breganze next year.
As I was attending to the offending items I noticed a lack of washers under some of the head nuts and the usual crushed cam blocks but these were much more crushed than the ones in my old 3C ever became.
I started thinking there was a bit of ham-fistedness on show and then, the icing on the cake, all the 6mm nuts across the front of the lower crankcase had wedge shaped pieces of alloy broken off the casing on the front edges. The nuts are sitting at an angle, just like the cam blocks in fact.
The whole thing will have to come to bits now and the cases be repaired.
I'm at a loss to know how you can break lumps off the casings like that.
God knows what I'll find inside the engine, I've found more bodges and damage in this one than any other triple I've had so far.
I'll take it apart tomorrow and then look for someone to fix the cases.


 
get a set of replacement or even new cases
new ones come without any numbers  stamped, just left blank,
if used ones, then get the numbers drilled out (right the way through) welded over, grind flat again and then sand blast the area before re-stamping your correct number.
repairs very close to the joint face are never easy, I have a dummy crank  made up in order to keep the cases straight if you are going to do any welding to them, and a jig for holding the cases on a mill table at the correct angle for drilling/setting the 9mm time certs or facing joints etc etc, not entirely a vital bit of kit but speeds up by about ten fold the setting up of them on a mill.

CLEM
 
CLEMTOG said:
get a set of replacement or even new cases
new ones come without any numbers  stamped, just left blank,
if used ones, then get the numbers drilled out (right the way through) welded over, grind flat again and then sand blast the area before re-stamping your correct number.
repairs very close to the joint face are never easy, I have a dummy crank  made up in order to keep the cases straight if you are going to do any welding to them, and a jig for holding the cases on a mill table at the correct angle for drilling/setting the 9mm time certs or facing joints etc etc, not entirely a vital bit of kit but speeds up by about ten fold the setting up of them on a mill.

CLEM
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Laser welding makes a doddle of this sort of stuff.  No heat distortion, no giant weld beads to dress up.  A quick dab on the mill to re-dress the fixing surface and all could be fine.

Much the same with case stampings...

piet
 
Thank God for that! I was just about to sell the bike for scrap  :D
I've delved further into the innards today and I cant see any more damage as yet apart from a cracked fin on the barrels where someone has tried to lever the head off.
I expected the 6mm crankcase nuts, where the damage is, to be over tightened but they were actually fairly loose. The carnage must be from a previous life of abuse.
I would doubt that there are any new sets of pre-oil cooler cases left on the shelf anyway, but you never know.
 
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