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

Well today I rode two of my 3C's one with disc brakes up front and the other with a drum brake up front both great bikes and the drum brake bike geometry seeming quite different, I think those unique triple clamps for the little 35mm forks must have a different offset as that bike steers very quickly whilst also being quite stable.
I am fortunate enough to have several running Laverda's and over the last 7 days have ridden 6 of them, always hard to pick a favorite but my old 81 Jota takes a bit to beat without a doubt!!!!!!
 
Vince said:
If that's the inner bit of the bottom plate that is the ground toucher bit that hits the muffler I did the same. Some time I need to add a bit of 3mm steel plate to increase the size of the stand bottom so it doesn't sink into the soft ground but that's me being anal. I must screw with everything including stuff that's 95% ok.
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I was concerned with the lean angle  being too close to upright. I raised the bike 3 /4" which gave a safe lean so I will remove that amount from the leg... I will wait for the exhaust to arrive once the post is functioning  again and do both mods at the same time.
  I was also considering welding the leg mount to the main bracket .I would keep the two bolts but remove the heads and weld them flush..thought that would tidy it up a bit .
 
Finishing my new bike showroom for my little collection and upstairs Man Cave,

Had a little ride on the Sport before I "fitted it" into it's upstairs resting place.  (inside the book case)
To be honest it rides like a pig  :D    Fantastic engine, lovely handling but absolutely the most uncomfortable bike I have ever ridden.  You need to be a pygmy with no legs to enjoy riding that!  But it Looks!!!!!  Ohhhh my, how beautiful that looks,  The rest of the man cave will be almost finished this week so will post more pics!

Keep safe and healthy,
Jules
 

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It's the rainwater drainage from the roof made by total idiots who maintain the building for the landlord, but that's another story!
There will be a curtain from the roof hanging down to behind the wooden upright plinth to cover it up.
Wait until you see my inside garden on the back of the man cave,  I think you will love it!

Jules
 
If you find the Sport uncomfortable just try an early SFC750, make the Ducati feel like a tourer. I almost bought a Sport but changed my mind at the last minute and got the SF2 which I still have.
 
What a sensational model the Sport. Love them. Probably the same position as the SS, no? I am fortunate in being small of build and stature so don't find any of the Dukes cramped or uncomfortable, but an SFC? That would test me!
 
I nearly brought a new 750 Sports in 74 but ended up buying the SF2 instead as Chapmans wasn't interested in my 250 desmo as a trade in where as Ron Gills offered me $300 as trade on the Lav. Lave was $1950, Sports was $1900. Also decided the Lav was a better usable bike even with the single seat fitted and I liked the fact it had twin disc, better switch gear and as we were riding and partying with the duke club I always like being different.
As far as long term investment goes it was a wrong move as compare the values of a 750 sports to a 750SF2
 
Although an SF1 went at auction recently for AUD$25000. Sure, not the collector's fees of the Duke Sport, but considering the actual loads of miles most SFs would have covered compared to the more fragile Sport ... an acceptable depreciation  :D
 
I must admit I did think about changing the footpeg positions to make it more comfy but then thought about the MHR,  I can fit on that quite nicely but it is made for open roads and really hates the little country roads that I use for test riding so the Sport would only have lifted itself into the usable but not pleasant category at best, and it makes such a good ornament for the man cave.    I'm really not interested in riding in traffic conditions, it makes me angry and Bike+Anger = big accident. 
The two Laverdas and all the other bikes are available to ride with ease now so hope to exercise them more this summer if the world stops chasing it's arse!
I may then even get time to get back to the race bike project.

Keep safe,
Jules
 
julian said:
... it (MHR) is made for open roads and really hates the little country roads that I use for test riding
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Yep, that's what I've found with my MHR. Its happy hunting ground is fast open roads with long sweeping bends that can be taken at high speed. It's not a tool for tight twisty roads.
 
The first time I rode one I was maneuvering it around a car park and hit the lock stop, had to put a leg out. They don't have much steering lock.
 
Most my street rides where Cafe. Some Dirt Bikes but that don't count. I shimmed the steering stops so the handle bars didn't hit the tank and therefore had to learn to shift my body and steer in the opposite direction, drag my knees and hit the throttle.

As far as as the Triple Tree Key Lock goes, I always lost them.

My Bikes were armed up for stealing - but who would dare to ;o)
 
Vince said:
The first time I rode one I was maneuvering it around a car park and hit the lock stop, had to put a leg out. They don't have much steering lock.
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The 750 GT wasn't any better. Same thing happened to me first time I rode one of them, was almost very embarrassing.
 
Dellortoman said:
Yep, that's what I've found with my MHR. Its happy hunting ground is fast open roads with long sweeping bends that can be taken at high speed. It's not a tool for tight twisty roads.
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Dittto, you both.  Ended up selling mine - living in south London at the time, had no where to use it  :-[
 

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Is there much diff b/w an MHR and a 900SS? Same frame? They're all long beasts, and their high speed stability compromises their flickability and low speed tight cornering. That was the big shift when the modern moto started building much tighter geometries into frames, with the necessary suspension improvements, smaller dia wheels and far more rigid frames etc.
 
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