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

You get a hell of a lot of feel and input via your arse, and not having a bolt-on subframe that supports the seat eliminates any flex so that is a good thing to me, plus less bending moment from forces acting like a cantilever with those members beyond the swingarm pivot. Talking of arses I just plucked all that from mine. It's been a few years of flogging them to the max with no welding repairs so something is working well and they look just as tough.
 
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Yesterday I was in the garage using the Ultrasonic cleaner on the internal bits of my new (Olde) right side carb. These parts cleaned up well. I used my second left carb and the Green book to confirm I had the right spec bits. Only one was "off".
One small step for man, one... still one small step.
Yesterday 82 deg F, today 48 friggin degrees and rain.
 
Squirted some fresh paint at the SF tank. I promised myself I would do a proper job, but time dictated just a top coat and clear.
 

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I've started amassing parts for my burnt 3C even though the insurance money hasn't come through.
I'll be amassing more seriously once it does which might take a while because of necessary police proceedings. Will post a list of parts needed here once the money is in and the bike in bits.
At least I feel like I'm doing something, being stuck in a wheel chair is a drag though my guitar skills are improving no end.

I bought a set of carbs 3 days before the bike burnt, will have to play the lottery again.
So far, I have a cam cover, a corner from the original started to melt.
A rear brake light switch off a Honda 50 of some description, €3 apiece.
A set of secondhand shocks, FAC. I had Konis which were much too harsh.
A set of instruments is on the way.
Paul

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Paul Marx said:
I've started amassing parts for my burnt 3C even though the insurance money hasn't come through.
I'll be amassing more seriously once it does which might take a while because of necessary police proceedings. Will post a list of parts needed here once the money is in and the bike in bits.
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Please post the list whenever you are ready. I have extra spares that could be on the way to you ........ your local facteur may become rather annoyed with the volume of parcels though.

Jim
 
Yesterday I made the horns of my RGS working and arranged a better ground contact between the handle bars and the switch, removed some corrosion. Today I got the safety approvel (TÜV in Germany) for the next two years. The contoller did not touch the horn button. 😂
Andre
 
Post-script to my last adventure, found a stone chip on my screen… how hard did it have to hit to crack perspex? Glad it wasn’t my helmet!
 

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Received these for project phoenix .
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Please don’t ever refer to it as Phoenix- I rebuilt an RD400 motor for a mate that had said mythical bird engraved on the casing- the story of the bike was similar to yours ,burnt/ rebuilt! The ensuing rebuild involved a YDS7 frame, loads of new bits and a 430cc engine with expansion pipes, clip on sets etc. I told him to take it easy to let the motor bed in before using all the revs.
Off he set on a jaunt to Brighton, gently running the motor in, satisfied this was complete , gave it full throttle out of a bend.Wheelied and launched it down the road, came back on a trailer. Nothing called Phoenix is ever lucky.
 
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Please don’t ever refer to it as Phoenix- I rebuilt an RD400 motor for a mate that had said mythical bird engraved on the casing- the story of the bike was similar to yours ,burnt/ rebuilt! The ensuing rebuild involved a YDS7 frame, loads of new bits and a 430cc engine with expansion pipes, clip on sets etc. I told him to take it easy to let the motor bed in before using all the revs.
Off he set on a jaunt to Brighton, gently running the motor in, satisfied this was complete , gave it full throttle out of a bend.Wheelied and launched it down the road, came back on a trailer. Nothing called Phoenix is ever lucky.
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Ok, I'll call it something else. Elsie?
I haven't been very lucky with this machine but persist and conquer!
Paul
 
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Ok, I'll call it something else. Elsie?

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If you call it Elsie ..... then you have to name three more of your bikes. I reckon the SFC would be Beauregard ..... but would the SF be Elmer? I can't wait to find out which one will be called Beulah!

Jim

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