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

Nice bit of design and fabrication Barry. It's good to see a bit of home-brewed ingenuity.

Re the side stand, I suspect Clem thought it was one of those awful factory original things that bolt onto the lower left front engine mount. Because they hang off the stud that goes into the crankcase, There's some risk of busting the crankcase at that point if the stand takes a hit.

I reckon your stand with its bracket being welded to the frame isn't such an issue.

Cam

 
Dellortoman said:
Nice bit of design and fabrication Barry. It's good to see a bit of home-brewed ingenuity.

Re the side stand, I suspect Clem thought it was one of those awful factory original things that bolt onto the lower left front engine mount. Because they hang off the stud that goes into the crankcase, There's some risk of busting the crankcase at that point if the stand takes a hit.

I reckon your stand with its bracket being welded to the frame isn't such an issue.

Cam
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Thanks Cam, didn't realize there were "Bolt on's" via the crankcase engine mount from the factory. In my younger days, that bracket was the first thing to gouge the tarmac on fast L/H corners.
Sometimes it would lift the rear tyre off the road a bit, inducing an arse clenching moment. :o :o  It ground away somewhat over those early years, these days I don't get anywhere near it. :)
 
BlackJota1978 said:
Clem, I welded that Kawasaki Mach3 500 side stand
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There's the problem.

I left the side stand down one after fueling up evening ::) on my Mach 3, did the first left hander and it speared me and bike onto the wrong side of the road, and we landed in a houses front garden.

So I'm laying there amongst the dafadills, stinging nettles and pansies, trying to push myself out from under the bike, and I look up, and there's a crusty old lady with no teeth standing on her front verandah in her summer nighty, looking down at me asking if I was all right .......... well I was, until I spied her nasty bits up her nighty :-[

 
chrisk said:
There's the problem.

I left the side stand down one after fueling up evening ::) on my Mach 3, did the first left hander and it speared me and bike onto the wrong side of the road, and we landed in a houses front garden.

So I'm laying there amongst the dafadills, stinging nettles and pansies, trying to push myself out from under the bike, and I look up, and there's a freshly waxed blonde MILF in a see through neglashea looking down at me asking if I was all right ..........
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Fixed it for you Bottler  :D
 
chrisk said:
Fixed it for you Bottler  :D

I left the side stand down one after fueling up evening ::) on my Mach 3, did the first left hander and it speared me and bike onto the wrong side of the road, and we landed in a houses front garden.

So I'm laying there amongst the dafadills, stinging nettles and pansies, trying to push myself out from under the bike, and I look up, and there's a freshly waxed blonde BoyToy in a see through neglashea looking down at me asking if I was all right ..........
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You sure?

Jim
 
Dellortoman said:
I've never worked out why they put a hinge in those racks so the horizontal bit would fold up against the vertical bit.
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I"m guessing it is a lineage to Italian scooter racks,does make it easier to take off rear light,I"ve since learnt a little leather buckle was there to tie them up throught the two chrome loops.
 
LJ-2 said:
I"m guessing it is a lineage to Italian scooter racks,does make it easier to take off rear light,I"ve since learnt a little leather buckle was there to tie them up throught the two chrome loops.
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I use a bit of nylon strap. Works well as well.

Paul
 
Dellortoman said:
I've never worked out why they put a hinge in those racks so the horizontal bit would fold up against the vertical bit.
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Glad I'm not the only one  ;).  (Had one on my SF2, complete with the little leather strap thingy).
 
Fitted a Digital Volt Meter to the 750 today. One of those cheap Chinese ones off Fleabay. Zip tied it
to the cables coming from the L/H switch gear. Out of the way, but easy to see in the normal riding position.
Wouldn't know it was there really when ignition is turned off. White LED is good during the day time. Fitting one to the Jota tomorrow.
 

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the factory supplied rack on my new 750SF1 did not come with a leather buckled strap, it annoyed me, having to use a bungy to hold it closed, so I fitted a magnet door latch, like you sometimes see in kitchens, that didn't always hold it "closed" either, but then a fracture through vibration, long before I knew about proper carb balancing etc, and I repaired it with an oxy acet kit, then another fracture and this time the flap got welded in the open position, then another, probably cause by crystallization of the metal through the repairs, so I binned it and used a tank bag, never looked back, now I always have one, very often empty, but I need it there, except on my pan which has a plastic dummy tank, which I am thinking of glueing some sheet metal to the underside of, so as to enable the magnetic tank bag to be used on that bike as well.

When I started making my own racks, people laughed (stop it Trotter, its a rack not a scaffolding stage) but on twin or triple they have never fractured, saved both bikes from severe damage and also been used as tie down points on recovery trucks, in vans, and on trailers, very useful at preventing throw overs from dragging into the wheel, and even at one point lifting eyes for a dockside crane, and none have ever failed.

CLEM
 
Continued assembly of the 3C.
Took saddle and tank off the SF2 so as to set it up this weekend.
It's running like a three legged greyhound.
More and more decided to investigate the front end shimy I've experienced on that bike for near 30 years. I believe one of the fork tubes is bent. It's always been a right pain getting that in the clamps.

Paul
 
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