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

maurice turner said:
I have never seen an XJ220 on the road as a driven car, I think more than 200 were made very cool!!!!!!!!!!!
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Saw one of those at a specialist Jaguar service/repair shop in Coventry some years back: truly enormous car! :o :o Had a street map of Tokyo on the passenger seat which I thought was rather cool/exotic too..
 
1200 JOTA said:
my bike actually ran very well today and was a joy ... it was parked at a mate's and I liked the perspective (poor photo though). Lovely machines!
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Nice pic, but that chain looks very tight!

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and that myth lasted 15 years in hospitals, hand written signs everywhere held on by Sellotape, never an official one did I see.
CLEM
 
It is a myth but clearly signed no mobiles. The myth is put about by people that think its explosive 💣 which is wrong its to do with the signal interfering with the remote valves that control production.which is also a load of bollocks.

 
Petrol stations ... maybe a myth but Electro-Magnetic Interference is a real thing. Now, it does depend on numerous factors (another topic) but I have seen 'early' mobiles trigger electrical systems inadvertantly.
 
Not to mention causing the cunti virus ??? or was that Bill Gates or was it 5G... ???
Cant remember now,
certainly wasnt the little yellow island to the north of Kathmandu..

 
From Cornflake packet to metal ... exhaust brackets pre-weld (old Jota brackets Red gave me are underneath the new ones for added strength) - now all I need is an end to St4 lockdown so I can get some of the bloody welding done!! Still plenty to keep me occupied in the meantime - stainless canisters for the mufflers to go .... (Why do my effing pics all come in SIDEWAYS!!!??? Even after I modify them by rotating?)

 

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Dellortoman said:
It's ended up much further forward on the muffler than I'd have expected. Have you got massively long headers?
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Dictated by the almost too large OD of the mega I bought off Fleebay (before I bought the rolling machine). If I run them any further fwd the mega fouls the BIG friggin Honda swingarm unless i angle them out and then they stick out too far at the arse end (onto which the stainless canisters will mount). That's the problem solving aspect of building a spesh!!!

Even though the section with the X-pipe is rigidly mounted to the neutral switch boss under the cases (akin to an SF1/2/3 with the rigidly mounted junction box thing), I'm in the process of fitting an extra 'stabilising' bracket below the pillion peg boss to the mega to help the front double rubber mount out.

It will be very rigid at the header going into the mega, but like you, Cam, i'm sus of the cantilever effect of all that rearward weight hanging off the front mount. My 2/1 had a canister added and coped for decades with a mount in that same pos on the left, but it was thicker metal. One consolation with this sys is that everything from the inlet to the mega back is very light (which can also mean more fragile!). Gotta be bulletproof first time round!!

Not that I have my funky rolling machine I plan to try my hand and roll up another pair of megas in 1.2mm sheet with a smaller OD and see how that fits. Good thing is I can fit anything to those headers now, and the internal baffles can be swapped over to any alternative I create. I'll get this one up and running first though ...
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
From Cornflake packet to metal ... exhaust brackets pre-weld (old Jota brackets Red gave me are underneath the new ones for added strength) - now all I need is an end to St4 lockdown so I can get some of the bloody welding done!! Still plenty to keep me occupied in the meantime - stainless canisters for the mufflers to go .... (Why do my effing pics all come in SIDEWAYS!!!??? Even after I modify them by rotating?)
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really cool work, I got so much done when we were under lock down too. Its amazing what you can get done when you have that forced time on your hands
 
andre g said:
Do you think the nut at the swinging arm axle is ok as it is?? >:(
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Absolutely not - this project has been part assembled several times to assure a good fit for all the little things being manufactured for it - the swingarm spindle has been gently tightened to position the swingarm precisely where it will end up once it's all put together 'properly', mainly so I can check clearance between exhaust and swingarm. It will no doubt look OK when I finish the build.

If you could see the rest of the bike you'd realise it's a skeleton.

Rear rim is 4.25x17, tyre is a 160. Chain clearance is a combo of 520 chain and moving the motor 5mm to the right ... big job, this SFQ!

Actually I'm planning some Lance Armstrong style 'no-chain' days ... (you have to have read his book  :D)
 
I used to constantly get negative comments from Clients during construct, my response was How about you wait till its finished before finding faults.
 
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