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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2020, 02:45:04 PM »
That's pretty damn sweet.
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2020, 03:09:04 PM »
Yes I do.

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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2020, 05:53:19 PM »
those triples were bad mofo's back in the day.
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Re: You need this Laverda
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2020, 06:42:59 PM »
 Not very good photos or description...What's  the reserve, 15 grand?

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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2020, 04:04:22 PM »
Nice.

Missing the rear seat cowling tho.
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2020, 04:43:45 PM »
$4,050...RESERVE NOT MET...22 bids...I suspect it will go $12,000 or more!! :thumb: :cool: :thumb: :wink:

As I mentioned in another post..I really like this 750 SF2 also... :thumb: :thumb: :cool:



« Last Edit: August 10, 2020, 04:52:55 PM by JJ »
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2020, 05:06:34 PM »
Dream bike.
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2020, 06:34:59 PM »
No one on my block has one...or even ever heard of it. But I would love it...
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2020, 08:14:59 PM »
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.
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2020, 08:50:17 PM »
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 planned to buy an RGA Jota at Fred Heistand Motors in '86, until I sat on it and popped it off the centerstand down onto it's wheels. I have a 30" inseam and my toes barely touched the ground. It felt very top heavy as well. Poof went the dream. I knew that even if I managed to somehow get it a little lower, that I'd eventually drop it and then hate myself forever after.
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2020, 10:39:02 PM »
A friend of mine has an RGS that he bought new in South Africa back in the day and brought to New Zealand with him.

The bike has been usefully developed with Suzuki GSXR wheels and tubeless radials, big front discs and 4 pot brembo calipers, small rear disc and floating brembo caliper, cartridge emulators and fork brace. A lot of unsprung weight removed which helps the handling immensely.

He also converted it to flat slide CV mikuni carbs which were something of an engineering feat to install and tune but a beautiful job and runs magnificently it now easily returns high 50s mpg (imperial).

However advancing age and reducing flexibility has seen him seek refuge on a BMW 1200GS and he talks about selling the RGS but hasn't quite been able to do it.

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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2020, 02:23:27 AM »
A friend of mine had one back in the early 80's. You struggled to get parts for them back then, hate to think what its like now. Pretty over rated niche bike. Massive mechanical noise from the engine, not rattling just every other sort of mechanical grumbling. Heavy and tall. keep walking would be my advice.

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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2020, 06:18:41 AM »
I considered one when new, and still had a triple. If you lifted the rubber surround on the instrument panel you would find a Citroen emblem.

Decent to ride, didn't think the 120 engine was as nice as the 180

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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #14 on: August 11, 2020, 07:34:24 AM »
Just in case you guys don't look in the new members thread------

A nice orange one--------https://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=7285.0
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #15 on: August 11, 2020, 10:42:17 AM »
Title  change....You Do Not need this Laverda...

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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2020, 04:55:31 AM »
Great bikes , but a real mens bike, anybod under 6 feet should pass.
They are heavy, brutal powerfull beasts....
A couple of friends run laverda 's
My mates 1200 laverda is the only bike with a stiffer clutch than my 900ss.
A guzzi clutch doesn't even com close .
 

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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #17 on: August 12, 2020, 08:42:07 AM »
A buddy of mine had one in the late 80s before I knew him so I never got to ride it.  Said it was a beast, and is nauseous when you ask him what he sold it for.  I'd love one.

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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #18 on: August 12, 2020, 02:31:50 PM »
If we all rent it for 1/2 hr it will be payed for, but if you wreck it you'll ruin it for the rest of us (and you have to buy it).
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #19 on: August 12, 2020, 09:00:07 PM »
They still look a mean and aggressive machine.  I love the look of them. :thumb:
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #20 on: August 12, 2020, 09:28:58 PM »
Look at this sexy beast!  :shocked:


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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #21 on: August 12, 2020, 09:53:21 PM »
Laverdas are pretty to look at, parts availability is very good from Wolfgang Haerter in Canada, and they are not overly complicated.

I have been trying to bond with my 1973 SF1 for a couple summers now, it has been plagued with carb problems but I am getting close, I think. It's just not the bike I thought it would be.



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.
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #22 on: August 13, 2020, 05:41:14 AM »
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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.

now you need a period le mans / v7sport  to complete the comparison.
at some time between friends we owned most of the big italian sport bikes, so swapping bikes during trips was fun.

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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #23 on: August 13, 2020, 06:29:18 AM »
Laverda porn:



A showroom of Laverdas in Breganze in 2016 when I was there with a mate who's a Laverdista.

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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #24 on: August 13, 2020, 06:31:20 AM »
I believe Canuck has already done that. Only MV is really missing.

I never cared for the twins either. The SFC I rode was among the worst bikes ever. A LeMans or Ducati is so much better.

But I think the triples are the real deal, and the twins are more a '60s bike.

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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #25 on: August 13, 2020, 11:44:16 AM »
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.

Mileage is really nothing for one of these.  30K Km is barely broken in.  Decent amount of chatter on this bike on the Laverda Forum with the main issue being whether it's a real Corsa-spec.
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #26 on: August 13, 2020, 12:16:43 PM »
$4,050...RESERVE NOT MET...22 bids...I suspect it will go $12,000 or more!! :thumb: :cool: :thumb: :wink:

As I mentioned in another post..I really like this 750 SF2 also... :thumb: :thumb: :cool:





"Bidding Ended On This Item" at $5135 .... ?

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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #27 on: August 13, 2020, 12:31:50 PM »
"Bidding Ended On This Item" at $5135 .... ?

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Bidding has ended on the RGS in the original post...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1984-Other-Makes/293677895275

...not the SF2 posted by JJ, which is now at $8750 with a bit over an hour to go.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1974-laverda-750-sf2/
« Last Edit: August 13, 2020, 12:34:16 PM by Antietam Classic Cycle »
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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #28 on: August 13, 2020, 12:54:23 PM »



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Re: You need this Laverda
« Reply #29 on: August 13, 2020, 02:14:52 PM »
that is remarkably cheap for the RGS, and a huge amount of money for the 750!

 

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