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

I had a spring washer off the handlebar mount disappear a couple of days ago, slipped out of my fingers while the fuel tank was off so today I went fishing around the spark plugs. I found 1/2 a teaspoon of tiny rocks stuck to the magnet on a stick plus a thin 10mm nut that looks like it was of either a tacho or throttle cable spigot. Just like under the starter motor it's surprising what you find in these cavities. No spring washer though, gone to god.
 
Eurocycleguy said:
Straightened a pair of fork tubes. They will be for a last case scenario usage only, so go ahead and tell me how dangerous it is to use them, how I cracked them, how I put flat spots in them.
Let it flow.
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I bought a 500T from Chris Clarke M/Cs in the 80’s with a bent sent of forks. It was their demo bike. It got a few hundred yards on the first demo ride before it all ended badly... 😢
I had the forks rolled and the bike performed fine, I probably even raced it somewhere.
Therefore, I doubt they will kill you and suspect the yokes or headstock will fail first 😉
 
After the trip last weekend I gave my 3c a basic wash:

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In the upcoming bad weather period I plan to check / replace the swing arm bearings and paint the instrument panel black (currently chromed, too much disturbing glare). Ah, and I'll replace the BT46s - the ones on the pic did last 7.300 kms.

Cheers,
Jo
 
The talk of green gaskets... I made my own primary cover gasket a few weeks back. Bought a 100cm x 25cm sheet of 0.8mm thick gasket paper from an auto parts store (for $16.99). It's grey. Quite chuffed I was, all the holes lined up and I didn't slip inside the line with the knife.

Had to replace that little spring on the gear selector. I bought the spring from Red. The service and supply was most excellent, thanks Red.
 

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I rebuilt my SF2 Ceriani forks with rechromed stanchions and new seals. I had already checked the reassembly order using the pics I found searching on this forum and assembled them as shown in one of the pics which seemed to be correct. Then I had a look at Laverdamania and saw the factory drawings of the damping mechanism in operation.
Yes you've guessed it, I'd put the little brass top hat in the wrong way round and the bottom cylindrical piece as well with the chamfer at the top. More searching on the forum and an old post from Stevio confirmed it so I had to take them apart and do it again. I hate doing things twice!
The stanchions were rechromed by Philpots in the UK for £215 including collection and delivery, it looks an excellent job too.
 
pf1 said:
I rebuilt my SF2 Ceriani forks with rechromed stanchions and new seals. I had already checked the reassembly order using the pics I found searching on this forum and assembled them as shown in one of the pics which seemed to be correct. Then I had a look at Laverdamania and saw the factory drawings of the damping mechanism in operation.
Yes you've guessed it, I'd put the little brass top hat in the wrong way round and the bottom cylindrical piece as well with the chamfer at the top. More searching on the forum and an old post from Stevio confirmed it so I had to take them apart and do it again. I hate doing things twice!
The stanchions were rechromed by Philpots in the UK for £215 including collection and delivery, it looks an excellent job too.
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In old age, memory not being what it used to be, I take photos before taking to bits.

Paul
 
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