piranha-bro2
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What have you got in mind for those babies, Scrumpy?
What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?
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chrisk
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Another Lavolta in the making?
Scrumpy
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Originally I was considering trying to build an electric bike which would do away with the zane engine issues. But the price of creating a battery which could deliver reasonable performance is quite expensive and realistically with a battery management system is prohibitive. Another option is to put a zane engine in it. I have one lined up courtesy of Andy Jessop. Another option is to consider is to use the front end and rear end and marry them into a featherbed frame create a modern version of a Triton. It has already been done and I like the look of it. The attached pic, not a Triton, has an Aprilla RSV motor fitted and imo looks the DB's.
The black frame is from a 668 which I want to shift on.
Aprilla in a featherbed
chrisk
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Works for me, pretty horn looking bikeOriginally I was considering trying to build an electric bike which would do away with the zane engine issues. But the price of creating a battery which could deliver reasonable performance is quite expensive and realistically with a battery management system is prohibitive. Another option is to put a zane engine in it. I have one lined up courtesy of Andy Jessop. Another option is to consider is to use the front end and rear end and marry them into a featherbed frame create a modern version of a Triton. It has already been done and I like the look of it. The attached pic, not a Triton, has an Aprilla RSV motor fitted and imo looks the DB's.
The black frame is from a 668 which I want to shift on.
piranha-bro2
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Yep - certainly takes the points in the looks stakes - it's a stunner ... but is a featherbed really appropriate for an RSV motor with about 150 horses???
What about using the Zane rolling chassis and one of the awesome modern 270 degree parallel twins out there, like a BM or Yamaha motor? Skinny enough to fit straight into that awesome Nikko Bakker frame. If I wasn't already overcommitted I would have made a Zane mongrel years ago.
What about using the Zane rolling chassis and one of the awesome modern 270 degree parallel twins out there, like a BM or Yamaha motor? Skinny enough to fit straight into that awesome Nikko Bakker frame. If I wasn't already overcommitted I would have made a Zane mongrel years ago.
Legs
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150 HP in a frame designed for a 50HP single 
valid point ... cross your fingers and say "she'll be right"150 HP in a frame designed for a 50HP single
Jo
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Wasn't aware that you have one of those too ...Not 150hp. My 2006 factory only has 130 at the rear wheel. More than enough to get yourself into trouble
Tom
Mm, I see a common thread here
Jo
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After some here cried out loud when I painted my 3c blue, I can now give the all-clear.
There's a new orange special tool in the stable, and it even says "Laverda" on it:
This device will now accompany me on construction sites and in the garage. Working with music is so much more pleasant!
Cheers,
Jo
There's a new orange special tool in the stable, and it even says "Laverda" on it:
This device will now accompany me on construction sites and in the garage. Working with music is so much more pleasant!
Cheers,
Jo
hooksey
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Aint that the truth Jo........beats listening to blokes whinning about there boss.After some here cried out loud when I painted my 3c blue, I can now give the all-clear.
There's a new orange special tool in the stable, and it even says "Laverda" on it:
View attachment 62503
This device will now accompany me on construction sites and in the garage. Working with music is so much more pleasant!
Cheers,
Jo
CLEMTOG
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I would like to see the point where the chain crosses the swing arm pivot on the Norrilla, the crank centre already looks higher than the wheel spindle line, but not easy to tell, if there is 50mm (or more) of clearance between chain and swinger, you will have a front wheel unload situation whenever the twist is gripped, and an unload of the rear when the bottle has gone, not nice in a corner.
CLEM
non English speakers might have trouble with that!
CLEM
non English speakers might have trouble with that!
Jo
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Not snaffeled by me Gerald, this was taken on a site in the Ahr valley, where I'm just helping to get the metalworking shop of a mate going again. Place was heavily damaged by the floods in July last year.Eigentum Deutsche Post!
Laverdalothar
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The Kelly Family stored the coins they earned doing street-musik in these boxes in the lower part of their ship, Joe Kelly once disclosed... It was actually millions of Deutschmarks...