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This told to me by the first in command Alfa USA guy, who got a bike from Laverda for his trouble but who was small in stature and couldn’t ride it... the RGS is a tall motorcycle.
I find it to be very heavy, it doesn't exactly jump up and run when you give it a fist of throttle, on its center stand if I run it to 4000 rpm it will quickly walk backwards across the floor, I find it vibrates pretty good - mostly feel it through the seat and this bike has been fully rebuilt, the bottom end by Wolfgang Haerter.My 1975 Ducati 860 GT is such a nicer bike to ride, much smoother, better handling, if I had to choose the Ducati beats the Laverda twin hands down, can't say I have any experience with the triples.
It looks to me like a fairly rough, high mileage RGS that may be missing some parts like the passenger seat fairing. No bags. Nothing that can’t be rectified with significant effort, except maybe the missing (?) bags which are unobtainable, but not a sterling example. Being is Canada in the current environment doesn’t help marketability either.My RGS fun fact contribution is to say that Alfa Romeo wanted access to some patents held by Laverda so sent a couple of US-based engineers who were familiar with EPA/CARB compliance to Laverda to help out. In this era evaporative emission controls were being introduced and Laverda needed a solution to access the US market. The second in command Alfa guy on site came up with the idea of adapting car parts, which led to use of a Fiat filler neck and gas cap. That’s why the RGS has a car style filler cap door in the fairing. This told to me by the first in command Alfa USA guy, who got a bike from Laverda for his trouble but who was small in stature and couldn’t ride it... the RGS is a tall motorcycle.I’d like an RGS but don’t have one yet.
$4,050...RESERVE NOT MET...22 bids...I suspect it will go $12,000 or more!! As I mentioned in another post..I really like this 750 SF2 also...
"Bidding Ended On This Item" at $5135 .... ?Lannis