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

[Jo]

... careful use a M6 tap and it's came up tutto nuevo as Luigi intended!

It is always nice when an improvisation like this leads to a successful result!
(bigthumb)  8)

 

[andre g]

Maybe Clem will say ?another orange?.
Made a first short test run with my now  ? street legal? ex race bike and changed my Avatar.

First time I run a 180* engine and it is strange for me as I just have 120* Laverdas.
Now it is a 1200 180* with high comp pistons. Vibrations are stronger than I used to feel them. But Benny put enough foam on the seat. I think I will can handle it.

some Photos

 

[helicopterjim]

Very nice. Too bad the photos are so small.

Jim

 

[andre g]

Try to send bigger files

 

[Paul Marx]

Managed to use my wunderhausen little Emco once again for something it was definitely NOT designed to do. Found a broken generator clamp stud in the donor cases being used on the SFQ ... only just noticed it as I was fitting the exhaust, and very glad I didn't discover it after building the bottom end and closing the cases. A rolled stud, and very hard material it is too. I was starting to think of the alum trick ...

I was able to use 2 M6 allthreads into nuts in the cross slide slots and use alu and stainless sheet to get the correct height for chuck centre (needed two layers of Cornflake packet cardboard to tweak it!!). Milled the end flattish then went in with a 2.5mm carbide drill bit (brilliant stuff, carbide), to a 3/16 end mill (bad idea, a piece chipped off and nearly ended the show!), then a new 4.5mm drill and a not so new 5mm drill bit.Was left with a smooth hole but I could just see the threads in the cases at the outside edge and careful use a an M6 tap and it's came up tutto nuevo as Luigi intended!

There's that distortion factor again! Bugger - someone tell me why?!

Nice work, but do you always fit the exhaust before closing the cases?

Paul

 

[andre g]

better now?

 

[helicopterjim]

Very, very, VERY nice!

Thank you.
Jim

 

[Jo]

Great boike indeed! Now you need just address the type designation - should read SFC 1200 now ...
8)

 

[andre g]

Regarding the documents it is a SFC 1000 

 

[Jo]

Regarding the documents it is a SFC 1000 

OK - that convinces me. One should never question registration papers!

Reminds me of a bevel Duc that a fellow student had back in the days. 326cm? had been entered in his papers -
he then paid very little tax for years. AFAIK he never complained ...

 

[hooksey]

Still looks like a racer  8)
Very nice build Andre  (congrats)

 

[piranha-bro2]

Nice work, but do you always fit the exhaust before closing the cases?

Paul

Nowhere near that yet, Paul. The bike is in varying states of dummy build depending on what I need to do, eg, most stuff in place to start wiring; exhaust headers and underslung section in place with head-only bolted into frame so I can take it to the welder and have everything where it will be as the muffler brackets are welded into place.

I can't carry and transport the frame, front end, swingarm, wheels, head, barrels, empty cases and exhaust in my station wagon - the frame, head and exhaust, yes.

We've only just reached a point where I can legally go to a business ands have stuff done - Covid-19 and all that. But we just recorded 4 days straight with 0 infections. Yay! I don't envy many others with the situation worsening badly. Keep safe all.

 

[Cosi]

Surely you got a mate with a Ute/ van/ trailer

 

[piranha-bro2]

Surely you got a mate with a Ute/ van/ trailer

Yep, but they're 45 minutes drive away. Not a drama to chuck the bare frame with head, exhaust and swingarm attached into the back of the Skoda ... only 5 minutes drive to my welder. I'd buy a trailer, but we already have a rarely used camper trailer in the driveway!

 

[Dellortoman]

I'd buy a trailer, but we already have a rarely used camper trailer in the driveway!

You can't have too many trailers. I've got 3. 

 

[piranha-bro2]

You can't have too many trailers. I've got 3. 

And somewhere to park them all, Cam!! 

Yesterday I fabricated the metal brackets to hold my custom sidecovers in place. Front part bolts to M6 thereaded isnerts I had welded into the frame, rear bolts to the tang that used to hold the rubber bung for a std SF sidecover.

The carbon worked out well enough for painting (a few air pockets to fill) but for a first ever crack I am happy. Reckon I can perfect it for bare carbon finish - really needs vacuum bagging so that is something I'll try next. If anyone thinks they might be interested in a pair (to fit std SF frame triangles, not the SFC ones), let me know and I'll come up with a price. Probably won't make extras until the SFQ is on the road though.

I'll post some pics. BTW, does anyone know why all my photos are distorting on import? They didn't used to do that!  :-\

 

[piranha-bro2]

Here they are - no doubt they'll look all weirdo and elongated! The right one is particularly rough because I tried extracting the cling wrap from the inside before it was completely rigid. A sand back and some filler and paint - bingo! No! They're not distorted - I cropped them a bit in Apple Preview - maybe that made the diff.

 

[Vince]

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.
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That fuel tank breather I ordered out of Texas finally arrived today, at the place I spend time at in the bush. That's 2 weeks too late to use, 600ks from where the bike is and 48 days after I ordered it. Not too helpful.

 

[andre g]

I also made my sidepanels by myself by GRP as thin as possible.
Had some grinding job after taking them out of my simple mould.
Wheight was 100 gr each unpainted.
Fixed them by velcro.

 

[piranha-bro2]

I also made my sidepanels by myself by GRP as thin as possible.
Had some grinding job after taking them out of my simple mould.
Wheight was 100 gr each unpainted.
Fixed them by velcro.

What's GRP? (showing my ignorance here!)