conversion to unleaded

Bimota YB4 or perhaps 5?

regards,
CrazyCam

 

It's the eleventh commandment.

 

The japs have been running unleaded since 1975, the yanks since 1971.

If it pings, use a higher octane, if it doesn't ping, go with what you got.

 

Might be a bit hard mate... last one left the service in 1989


Johno


Beer mate?

 

I saw one down at the Point Cook museum parked next to a Phantom.
Faark it was tiny!!

 

I'm fairly sure that they weren't 1200cc in 1980 though. In 1980 they
were either still 1000cc or they'd just gone to 883/1100cc. [1]

G-S

[1] Yes this may well be wrong, it's usenet what do you expect

 

FJ1200 if you include _whole_ 80's


G-S

 

Doh... I was too slow again


G-S

 

I must confess I too lusted for a Laverda.

My particular weakness was the later 120degree crank version (in black
not orange... no road bike should be orange... are you listening KTM?).

After I while I realised that Laverda's were a little unobtainable and
started lusting for a LeMans Guzzi (and being a slack bugger even that
took another 18 years to happen).


G-S

 

I once chased what my memory told me was a 1200RGS (but which must've been
a 1000RGS) through Mt Mee.
He wasn't super fast (I was quicker two-up on my XJ900) but the sound from
the 120° engine was an orchestra!
Another reason I'm a bit of a triple fan.

 

I thought they upgrade automatically if you have been a good boy............

 

I suspect the thought of those glorious sounding Laverdass is half the
reason I ended up buying the Spring ST too clem


G-S

 

just remember the Mt. Mee rider memorial (sandstone boulder) on the LH side
near the dairy farm was for a Laverda rider.

Andrew

 

Yeah, Rad.
I was camped opposite him at the 1989 GP and I picked him up once when he
rode through a wire fence and nearly decapitated himself.
He was a wild man for a born-again Christian!

He was the Qld president of the Laverda Club and he crashed his Jota coming
down Mt Mee and got run over by 62 Harley Davidsons going the other way.
That's gotta' be bad luck!

 

not in ultra-conservative Perth.....

 

Don't think so. The Jota was a 650cc parallel twin with an extra
cylinder added in the middle at 180º to the other two. Hence the
"distinctive" sound. The later 1200s were a proper triple.

Theo

 

*Points and laughs*

Postman Pat