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

Vince said:
I finally bought the camping chair of my dreams today after months of searching. The only place that held stock is at Campbelltown, the exact opposite side of Sydney to me.
I hit the Thirlmere Sausage Roll shop as well. The only pain was heading home, I spied a very tidy grey unassuming car in my mirrors with some low profile roof racks and as I moved to the left lane my suspicions were confirmed with big Orange strips down the side. Almost not noticeable in the rearview mirror. He became a mobile roadblock from Narrelan Rd to the city with me and dozens more stuck behind the almost 80ks of expressway. PAINFUL.
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Thanks Vince
I’ve been looking for one of those myself.
So sick of the x base ones that crunch your nuts every time you sit down
 
I was a bit shocked at its weight, but it does fit easily on my, wait for it, RACK. I spent too many years camping and either sitting on the ground or whatever. It will help just putting my pants on.
 
Dellortoman said:
Looks like a well-designed chair Vince. Not cheap, but you get what you pay for. Hopefully it'll hold your arse off the ground in comfort for many years to come.

I sat on a mate's folding chair at the last race meeting I went to. It was one of those ubiquitous chairs that you see everywhere and can buy at Bunnings or any camp shop (typical example shown below). Sitting in it was no problem, but as I went to stand up, I pushed down on the arms to lift myself up from the seating position and one of the arms collapsed. It folded at the point where the support arm passes through the seat.

Having busted his brand new chair, I felt obliged to do something about it. Either buy him a new one or see if it could be fixed. So I took it home with me to investigate the options. When I had a closer look, I saw that the bloody thing was actually designed to break at that spot. There was a 6mm diameter pin through the tube at that point. The tube is only about 20mm diameter and very thin walled (about 0.8mm). It had no kind of reinforcing sleeve to offset the stress concentration caused by the bloody great pin hole. It may as well have had a dotted line like a postage stamp, with an arrow pointing to the joint and a sign saying, "break here". It's a shit design.

I ended up making an insert on the lathe from solid aluminium bar to slip inside the broken tube. It was about 60mm long and a press fit inside the tube. I epoxied it in place, re-drilled the pin hole through the bar and reassembled the joint. That arm is now about 10 times stronger than it was. The thought crossed my mind to break the other arm and do the same modification. But my undertaking was just to fix what I'd busted, not do a complete bloody re-design and upgrade. Otherwise I'd have been there for ages reinforcing every other pin-joint where tubes cross.

Moral of the story - don't buy cheap shit chairs and expect them to be fit for purpose. It's money down the drain, especially if you're a person of substantial mass like Vince or me. Not that we're fat bastards. It's all muscle eh mate. :)


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Dellortoman, next to go is the plastic foot pads then you can use your muscle to toss it in the bin, been there and landed on my ass when it broke and spilled my last beer, f.... chinks!
 
Body-Working on GT fork covers that were tweaked in a wee shunt a couple years back.
Lower portion of covers bent below slots for lower fork ears. Wrinkled and twisted.
I found a large Impact socket that makes a perfect dolly for the lower portions of the covers. But still need to devise holding a bending/straightening tool/system to bring the top and bottom portions of the cover back into alignment with each other. Close now but I can still see they are off.
I have designed and built half of a wooden jig that will show alignment of top and bottom openings center-lines.
I want to use these covers on the bike because they are the originals and they are already drilled for mounting the safety side reflectors.
Down the line, 3D additive manufacturing of new reflector bases. We'll see if I get that far....
 
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Doing a general tune up on the AE (& installing a new Reg) noticed some white oxidation (?) near a lower mounting point on battery box.
Closer inspection showed the battery has moved at some time and there was quite a deep gouge in the casing at the bottom of the battery adjacent to the white corrosion.
Took the battery out and you could see what looked like a small crack at the deepest point, obviously very close to breaking through. Little doubt a bit more bumping around while riding would have led to a larger split and battery failure, most probably miles from anywhere!
Disaster averted☑️ Now have to see what the local shops have as a replacement............
(I do have battery sitting on leather and packed out at the sides but obviously I need to improve on one side!)
 
a14rgs said:
Cracking ride out today for a lunchtime meet with Steve Colledge on his RGA1000 Sprint.
Steve had ridden over from Barry (tidy!) and we met up at the cafe at the old station in Tintern, after a great ride up the Wye Valley 👍🏍😁

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Lovely pictures, bringing back memories of 30 years ago. And so obviously Wales - 'Xob Langis Nretnit'. Difficult to pronounce but somehow musical.
 
Hi Al, great photos 👍😀. How is Steve, haven’t heard from him or of him since the BFN tour. He had a few issues with that bike when I first met him in Bilith Wells when I was hooning around the UK before leaving on the BFN tour. Must say that sprint s beauty in the looks department 😀👍 When you see him or are talking to him say hi from me😀👍
Tom
 
now come on Al, get those front idicators in a bit, relocate the hooters to the front engine mounts, ditch the bikini screen, its not a Harly or even a cop bike, its a thoroughbread!
hooters under the headlight looking like spot lights noo, noo, noo, noo, noo!
and worse ! they were at one time on the oil cooler, someone must have got the tin tack for that!
CLEM
 
CLEMTOG said:
now come on Al, get those front idicators in a bit, relocate the hooters to the front engine mounts, ditch the bikini screen, its not a Harly or even a cop bike, its a thoroughbread!
hooters under the headlight looking like spot lights noo, noo, noo, noo, noo!
and worse ! they were at one time on the oil cooler, someone must have got the tin tack for that!
CLEM
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Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder, Clem 🍻:p - and you, being the long-term owner / rider of TOG, should be very aware of that! :LOL:

Indicators and horns are correct for a 1977 1200 #1007. Screen recently added as the bike was built to be ridden (y)
 
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