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

Been losing a bit of clutch travel lately, so, decided to put in new fluid, new master cylinder kit and replaced seal (& dust cover) in slave.
Was a bit of a bastard to bleed the new fluid through but was able to get a lot of air out through the master cylinder in the end which made job easy.
Also decided to replace drive chain and while cover off could inspect both sprockets for wear. Chain was a non o'ring chain from Andychain and I have been most impressed. Was going to change it around the 20,000km but it showed little wear but now at a bit over 27,000km it is definately bin bound. Sprockets still look in good nick so will keep for another round.
I had purchased a DID O'Ring (or X Ring or some such) some time ago so just put that on, but I really should try and get another of those non o'ring ones for next time..................
All seemed good but as always Friday night work will need a Saturday Quality control check ;) 
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
That's impressive mileage from a non-O chain. What brand was it that Andy used to sell?
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(Just checked, it was actually around 26,000km!)
Andy used to recommend and sell an IWIS chain and there were no distributors in Aus. Even with freight they were pretty cheap but very good quality.
They feel very light and have a very smooth action. Makes an O'Ring chain look and feel like a 630 in comparison so the chain no doubt is kind to running gear.
I did a quick search and found this comment from him back in 2012 which seems to sum it up:-
Bikes as a rule to not break chain they wear them, break a chain and something is wrong.
This means that quality is important, from the steel used, the finish of the round parts (pins
bushes and rollers) and the overall tolerance. The vast majority of modern chain used in industry
are made to the DIN standard which is a minimum standard.

For example the DIN standard for 10B-1 (530) is 22,400N whilst the higher quality iwis is 27,00N.
If you are concerned about strength the iwis asa50 is 29,000N and is the same gearing wise.

At .95 kg/mt the iwis 10B-1 (M106SL) is much lighter than even most 520 chains.
(My underlines)
 
With my Scottoiler a chain like that would be awesome. A lot less work for the motor to drive a non-O chain too, especially if it's constantly lubed well. I did have a chain once on the SF1 by the brand name Champion - it went to Darwin from Melbourne and down to Perth (plenty of dirt) and was on for years before I left on that trip; in those days the bike was used heavily, daily and often on long trips or weekend fangs. Was always amazed at how well it was wearing and MUCH better than (for eg) a Renold I'd used before it.
 
My welder has made some progress while we've been trapped in lockdown. I need to get out to him in Lilydale (outside the new 25km bubble) to have welding done on the exhaust and then most of it goes down to Leongatha (135km away) for ceramic coating. Today might be carbon sidecover layup day #1.
 

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Very generous offer, Pat. But I'm gonna have to wait until I can be there in person - frame, head and exhaust need to be transported then assembled before tacking, so that everything fits like a glove - last thing I want is bits that have to  be twisted and forced into place onto the rubber silent blocks!

I also have as great welder close to home but he works at a busy factory and time to dedicate to my stuff is limited.

Thanks bigly for the offer.

Quentino
 
Dellortoman said:
I'm surprised you don't do your own welding Quentin. You do pretty much everything else.
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Can understand your thinking, Cam! I have thought about buying a decent quality 2nd hand MIG (rather than a cheap new one), that can maybe TIG as well, but even then i wouldn't trust myself to do a lot of the jobs I've done on the SFQ (eg, seam welding .7mm stainless sheet rolled into muffler cans, ditto for reverse cone ends). I've done a course in welding and the one thing I just couldn't get right was TIG. I have a little stick welder but that's not that much use on the project.

Prob with fine welding is if you botch it, it often means chucking the job completely! Top dog TIGgers have vast experience at it.
 
I cut out my carbon twill ready to lay it on down for my sidecovers. Would have got one at least laid up, but a ... little .... computer issue raised its ugly head.

My missus downloaded Dropbox onto my Macbook Pro so the extended family can access a shared doc there to manage her mum's house down the coast. (her MB pro needs a clean up to allow more RAM so she can upgrade to an OS that works with Dropbox). The the shit hit the fan - a simple menu in the setup asks if you want to sync your files (saying this is the 'default') - innocent enough. Suddenly every file, icon and even my fukken wallpapar (the pic of brother Lee riding the wheels off his SF racer) have disappeared into thin ether. All I'm left with is the original Apple OS sand dune pic and a hard drive icon. Oh, and the good bit? Because it's trying to upload a shitload of data, she gets a message that her quoto of 2gb (or whatever it is they offer for free) has been reached and the whole thing freezes - and is totally an utterly useless and unusable!!

FFwd 6 hours and I was finally able to retrieve my precious stuff. And it was not fukken easy. Seems Dropshitbox took it all and put it somewhere Dropboxy - after trying everything I could think of to work out if it was gone forever, a phone call to my tech savvy nephew helped me - in the hard drive under my Users menu - my Desktop, listed under the name Dropbox!! I don't fully understand what happened, and neither it seems do the people who created this thing - I do know I found 6 pages of very pissed off users who'd seen files disappear, some for good, with no reasonable explanation from the DB 'helpers' who were fobbing them off.

Suffice to say, now that i have restored my laptop, every semblance of the very scent of Dropbox is in my Trash folder!! Never again will it grace this computer. When a free app takes control of your stuff without any warning or explanation beforehand, it's a serious fuck-up.

And i could have been laying out carbon fibre twill!! No wonder my SFQ is taking for fucking ever  >:D >:( >:( >:(
 
Today the weather was realy fine, so I finished work early and made a 100 k autumn trip in our region with Eva my wife and my RGS.
But I have to adjust the carbs not running smoth at low revs!!!!
Andre
 
andre g said:
Today the weather was realy fine, so I finished work early and made a 100 k autumn trip in our region with Eva my wife and my RGS.
But I have to adjust the carbs not running smoth at low revs!!!!
Andre
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Just to mention ...
8) :D
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
Suffice to say, now that i have restored my laptop, every semblance of the very scent of Dropbox is in my Trash folder!! Never again will it grace this computer. When a free app takes control of your stuff without any warning or explanation beforehand, it's a serious fuck-up.
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I've never gone anywhere near dropboxes, iClouds or any of that file sharing shit. I've always suspected they were disasters waiting to happen.
 
Today I finaly made a start at fixing the leaking petrol tank breather. The one bought with the fixing nut on the tank outside never turned up from the USA so I bought the one that Cam posted the pic of. There was zero chance of unbolting the 8 fixings on the aero fuel cap so I decided to drill there heads off. That's countersunk stainless cap screws. I was nervous giving it a go but it turned out pretty easy and I lucked out keeping the swarf and nuts from dropping into the tank. My plan was to anodise the cap surround red to match the tank colour, a phone call later and I hear it's a 3 week turn around and its way to close to the Snowy Rally to do that. It needed its half pealed powder coating stripped so I tried the stuff Chris recommended CRC Gasket Strip. Bloody Hell its amassing, 3 minutes and I now have a clean virtually shiny alloy with zero effect. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. So I have all the bits to put it back together and zero time to do any prettying, fixing the blistered paint around where the old breather was or do any colour on the aero tank cap and surround and it's such a huge pain to pull this stuff off again at a later date. As an addendum, some of the time was spent trying to find tools to make this ship in a bottle type job easier. All the fixings are inside the tank and very hard to access. I was after a 3mm T handled Alan Wrench, a 16mm ratchet ring spanner and an 8mm spanner, one of those open enders at one end and a socket on the other. I tried 2 separate huge tool shops and 2 repcos, all they sold was Chinese crap let alone anything even close to what I wanted. Where are all those Engineering Shops that were around when I was a kid.
 
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