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

I wouldn't mind buying a tyre fitting machine Hamish, we could share it, would you be happy paying me one tenth of the purchase price every time you use it up to five times, and then half that in perpetuity.
CLEM
 
Hmm ... good luck getting anyone to accept that deal Clem. It's hardly a fair sharing scheme. All you're doing is buying a machine and charging for its use. You're setting up a business venture.

If it's truly a sharing scheme, let's do the arithmetic: After 5 uses, one tenth of the purchase price x 5 = 50% of the cost of the machine, so he'll have equal shares with you.
If he then pays one 20th of the price for the next (6th) use, he'll become the major shareholder and could (in theory) charge you for its use. ;)

If he uses it 15 times at your rates, he'll have paid the full price of the machine and will own it outright.

Apologies if I've undermined your money making "sharing" scheme. :)
 
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I put a coat of paint on one of my Executive saddlebags. The paint is the same shade I used in the late ‘80’s: mostly Porsche Tangerine/Blood Orange (the same color) with Guards Red blended in.
The paint booth is my garage with a canvas floor, plastic walls and furnace filters and fans for air cleaning. It works pretty good, but I’ll still have to use compound and polish when it cures.

I have the front fender and one of the side covers completed as well. Next is the fairing and seat cover. I’m saving the tank for last. Actually the replacement fiberglass hand guards will be the very last since they need to be fitted to the fairing.

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That's going to be a lot of orange, I will be interested to see how it looks when it's all together. When I painted my Corsa with Executive bags I thought of a two tone black and orange combo but could not picture how to do split it up. So I just did it all in black.

On the fiberglass handuards, mine needed a bit of work to fit as well. I fitted by bolting up gently to the fairing, marking where they needed to sanded, removed, sanded, repeat process over a few times to get them snug. Also used some thin black edging on the edges against the fairing. Not sure what moulding a factory Exec used if anything.
 
what you are forgetting Cam, especially with your heritage is that Hamish,/sweaty sock/flying Scotsman, or plain Jock McStrap, is the original tight arsed Jockanese bastard from which all others are descended, he knows that I wouldn't charge him at all, and he can be very generous with his beer and meals on Wednesday nights at our weekly/local Huntsman meeting, but usually when doing so he places a brown paper bag over his head with two eye holes cut in it so that no one nows who the generous bloke is and he can maintain the Scottish tradition.
CLEM
 
Today I took my NOS 120 Jota out and put 200 km on her so now a total of 2000 km, I went riding with a local club that I am where the bulk of the members ride V twin American motorcycles, they thought that my Jota was ugly, seems they could hardly get anywhere near the back of my singing 120 Jota in any case.
I must admit we are starting to become friends.
 

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mauricejota7604 said:
Today I took my NOS 120 Jota out and put 200 km on her so now a total of 2000 km, I went riding with a local club that I am where the bulk of the members ride V twin American motorcycles, they thought that my Jota was ugly, seems they could hardly get anywhere near the back of my singing 120 Jota in any case.
I must admit we are starting to become friends.
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So you ought to be able too blow them into the weeds......😎 Bloody quick those 120’s 🚀🚀🚀
 
mauricejota7604 said:
Today I took my NOS 120 Jota out and put 200 km on her so now a total of 2000 km, I went riding with a local club that I am where the bulk of the members ride V twin American motorcycles, they thought that my Jota was ugly, seems they could hardly get anywhere near the back of my singing 120 Jota in any case.
I must admit we are starting to become friends.
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And a photo bombing thumbs up as well.👍😎🤗
 
Adam, would you like a job cleaning my bikes? I can’t quite get my head round how the likes of you, Patrick and others keep your bikes so unfeasibly clean. 🤷‍♂️
 
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Adam, would you like a job cleaning my bikes? I can’t quite get my head round how the likes of you, Patrick and others keep your bikes so unfeasibly clean. 🤷‍♂️
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Andy - this was yours once 🤣 having an integral garage where one can slope off into is quite handy - just pop that 668 C below in black round next time you come over and will look after it for you on a permanent loan basisE2FEECF4-F15E-44A0-96AF-D147E64533DB.jpeg
 
New chain and rear sprocket, rebuilt the front M/C . Need a test ride, look for any thing else that needs doing and replace the rear tyre.
Hope to get over to Curdie Vale this year.

Maybe boring stuff but I enjoy it. :)
 
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