1972 SF 750 Laverda

[Laava]

Listed on TM, I sold this just before I joined KB and funded the VStrom I still have.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/motorbikes/motorbikes/classic-vintage/auction-639130258.htm

[Maha]

.....and here I was thinking you chose a 1970's fluoresce gloop lamp as a screen name ;)

[T.W.R]

Been on my watch list since the day it was listed :yes:

Now if lotto plays nicely tonight I could nab that, wave some coin at the prick that teases me with SFC1000 that visits the place down the road :blip: I'd be happy :weep: oh well dreams never hurt anyone :facepalm:

[Grizzo]

:drool: I want it.

[Laava]

.....and here I was thinking you chose a 1970's fluoresce gloop lamp as a screen name ;)

Haha! I love a bit of gloop as well

[Laava]

I think he paid me around 7k for it.

[F5 Dave]

ooh hes got all ahhtistic with the first extreme close up shot. Very nice bike, but it cracks me up that they never ground off the bar mounts & sandblasted the top triple clamps from the factory.

[T.W.R]

Very nice bike, but it cracks me up that they never ground off the bar mounts & sandblasted the top triple clamps from the factory.

That's because they shared common parts between the SF & SF1....stock SF is supposed to have normal flat bars & no fairing :msn-wink:

[F5 Dave]

Um yeah but all they had to do was a quick mod

[T.W.R]

Um yeah but all they had to do was a quick mod

:lol: where's the fun in that? remember they're wops building these things, they got to have odd eccentric quirks ;)

It's the internal engineering that sets Laverdas heads & shoulders above the rest of the Italians :banana:
Remember a certain english mag testing a Jota in 1980-81 did nearly 40 miles without a drop of oil in the engine...got it filled up & still did a full road test, any other bike would've blown itself to bits. I even know personally of a 1200 that did over 100kms to get home with all it's rings completely destroyed & most the journey home was @ 120kmh two-up :innocent:

[Laava]

ooh hes got all ahhtistic with the first extreme close up shot. Very nice bike, but it cracks me up that they never ground off the bar mounts & sandblasted the top triple clamps from the factory.

You realise that this bike is an SF 750 not an SFC? I left the triple clamp as was, even though I could have modified it. Was on the look out for a replacement but nothing eventuated. This particular bike was probably an italian police bike before being imported to blighty where it was given a "Q" reg, which means that it was of unsure origin. It was blue then repainted black then I painted it red.

Edit, it appears, on googling , that the SFC did have the same top clamp! Haha, I learnt something today! Some seem to have the Jota bars fitted, others have fittings attached etc.
Just as well I left it alone then!

[T.W.R]

You realise that this bike is an SF 750 not an SFC? I left the triple clamp as was, even though I could have modified it. Was on the look out for a replacement but nothing eventuated. This particular bike was probably an italian police bike before being imported to blighty where it was given a "Q" reg, which means that it was of unsure origin. It was blue then repainted black then I painted it red.

Edit, it appears, on googling , that the SFC did have the same top clamp! Haha, I learnt something today! Some seem to have the Jota bars fitted, others have fittings attached etc.
Just as well I left it alone then!

The road going 750 SFC is the race replica of Sergio di Angiolini's SFC endurance racer......basically like comparing a 500 Alpino to a 500 Montjuich ones the base bike & the others the factory hotrod though the Montjuich was a commemorative model of Sergio's domination of endurance racing in the early 70s and especially at the Montjuich circuit in Barcelona

[F5 Dave]

You realise that this bike is an SF 750 not an SFC? . . .

Oops ahh nope I didn't I just saw the fairing. I read the rest of your post but I won't now claim to be an expert on the things despite greedily absorbing everything I've read about them for years. I've only seen one 750 in the flesh & I was told it was a SFC, but it was rpetty rough & it probably wasn't. Was painted a dark grey too. Possibly with a brush.

[the oldstuff]

Fuck it I would have swapped one of my Vincents for that, with cash of course