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

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Finally got the drummer on the road for the first time in over 20 years, shimmed the neutral switch but it has to come out another 0,5mm. Rode the 74 today on the way to get the 73 registered, so I have a back to back comparison. Pulls harder for some reason, even though the specs are exactly the same - very odd. Clutch is soo much lighter with the Lucas levers. After having been on Wilbers shocks for some time the Cerianis are really awful :p
The 74 has a slight weave when banked at around 110 which the 73 does not. The brake, surprisingly, is closer to the Brembos than I thought.
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Chris,
do you use the original 15 (15.6) brake master? If so, I'd recommend to change for a 14 - much better performance. Would widen the gap in comparison to your drummer though ...
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Cheers,
Jo
 
Jo said:
Chris,
do you use the original 15 (15.6) brake master? If so, I'd recommend to change for a 14 - much better performance. Would widen the gap in comparison to your drummer though ...
:cool:

Cheers,
Jo
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Yes, it's the original one. Actually like the concept of them being closer together in performance - less chance of actually overshooting a corner on the drummer...
 
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Today was Ian' Murf' Murphy's funeral, he passed away too early.
For those that don't know who he is, he was the pit controller at the TT and MGP for more years than I care to remember as well as a keen member of the Peveril Motorcycle Club on the IOM. Back in the day he rode in numerous sand races, at places like Mablethorpe, often in sidecars, under an assumed name as it wasn't always an ACU approved event; and also competed successfully in things like car grass tracking. A great guy that will be sadly missed by many people. He had moved to his beloved IOM quite a few years ago and took a last lap of the mountain course in sidecar hearse accompanied by police outriders, TT bike marshals and large number of local riders and a few who came over specially from the UK. A line-up of race bikes in the pit lane, including one of my Laverdas, greeted him on the completion of the lap.
 

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Sunday was spent replacing leaky fuel taps, BAP, replaced with replica fuel taps.
Fuel tank flushed of a rather startling amount of what I'm assuming is fuel residue.
 

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Charley said:
Sunday was spent replacing leaky fuel taps, BAP, replaced with replica fuel taps.
Fuel tank flushed of a rather startling amount of what I'm assuming is fuel residue.
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That looks like old tank liner material. Looks like ethanol has made it brittle and flakey. Would be worth having a good look inside the tank and remove as much as you can before it clogs up your new taps! It is usually easy to peel off when it gets to that state.
 
simesman said:
That looks like old tank liner material. Looks like ethanol has made it brittle and flakey. Would be worth having a good look inside the tank and remove as much as you can before it clogs up your new taps! It is usually easy to peel off when it gets to that state.
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I spotted it when inspecting the tank after draining off the fuel that was in the tank.
This material was only lying in the low areas with no sign of it ever having been 'applied' to other areas of the tank.
Once removed, paint over spray and very minor corrosion can be seen where the varnish had been.
I have managed to remove 99% of what was in there but have yet to replenish the tank to see if my theory is correct.
The filters of the old taps were trapped in the tank, held in place by the same varnish.
I have wondered, if, this is really the remains of evaporated fuel, how much fuel would it equate to?
It must be 1/4" thick in places.
 
After some warnings form others and some research on my part, it would appear that the toffee chips in my tank are 'Petseal' gone off.
I've been warned to clean the tank thoroughly and inspect the carbs etc. as it can cause sticking slides and even sticking inlet valves.
On this last point I really hope they are wrong.
I'm off to flush the tank a few more times.
 
get a small cement mixer, line it with old carpet/underlay/foam scraps, squeeze the tank in to this nest, nice and tight, put a couple of handfulls of drywall screws inside, (the nasty sharp little bastards that cut your fingers when you try to even get them out of the box) and turn on the mixer, leave for as long as you choose, hours even, remove tank, put back in the the way around and repeat.
CLEM
 
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