LAVERDA 500 TURBO OFFICIAL PROTOTYPE

[Tippie]

A lightweight mini RGS, yess! How would a 500 motor (head) hold up with a turbo?

 

[sfcpiet]

A lightweight mini RGS, yess! How would a 500 motor (head) hold up with a turbo?

Not very long imho. The head already succumbs to excessive heat in NA configuration, a turbo would increase that close to melting point...

Pretty concept though, RG Studios nailed it.

piet

 

[Vince]

Everybody had middle-weight Turbos back then. Laverda didn't want to miss the boat I guess. It was a 2 or 3-year trend. It seems nobody wanted a Turbo Honda Maggot.

 

[Tree Hugger]

RGS is a design classic, grab one while you can

 

[SFC addict]

 

[Andy]

Is that a radio cassette and speakers? Glad they didn't follow through with that

 

[Laverda SF]

LAVERDA 500 TURBO OFFICIAL PROTOTYPE: WHAT YEAR - Mid early to mid 70's Breganzie 500 twins where tuned for Racing by the Monjiac Team.

But they didn't have today's EFI, Computerized Electronics or Turbo technically. If they did - REALLY that 500cc Breganzie Twin would have been Something Else above her existing Fame .

Even today, I would have loved have found a Laverda DOHC 500cc Breganzie Twin - Breganzie designs allows you to shape the ride to your style of riding.

Really if you updated that bike with Modern EFI Fuel Metering, Modern CDI Components and a MODERN Turbo System with a Specked Engine, I believe she would compete rather well against any modern 4 stroke 500cc WORLD class racer today ;o)

 

[chrisk]

Is that a radio cassette and speakers? Glad they didn't follow through with that

LAVERDA RGS Wing

 

[Alzero]

I’d have loved to have CarPlay on a screen on my RGS Exec for the navigation and to stream music to my earplugs. I see no problem with replacing the entire dashboard with a TFT screen as long as it has the same information.

 

[Paul Marx]

Really if you updated that bike with Modern EFI Fuel Metering, Modern CDI Components and a MODERN Turbo System with a Specked Engine, I believe she would compete rather well against any modern 4 stroke 500cc WORLD class racer today ;o)

A factory in Zane did that, luckily without the turbo.
Most of the bikes went to the breakers years ago. A good source of quality cycle parts looking for an engine.
Paul

 

[Andy]

I’d have loved to have CarPlay on a screen on my RGS Exec for the navigation and to stream music to my earplugs. I see no problem with replacing the entire dashboard with a TFT screen as long as it has the same information.

I tried stereos and earplugs years ago and soon worked out that music is a waste of time around here. If you make it to enzed, look me up. I'll show you roads that'll make you forget what song you're listening to

 

[Vince]

I like to listen to music, but after a few ks of good road, I couldn't tell you what was just played. Lately, I have loaded an app on my phone that plays a national FM radio station via Bluetooth to my earbuds and I am really curious to see if it works in the middle of nowhere. I guess it's data supplied by the mobile network but I don't know if it's limited to tower connection or data download limits or even if it's expensive to do. Modern tech mystifies me. The sound quality is fantastic.

 

[Alzero]

I tried stereos and earplugs years ago and soon worked out that music is a waste of time around here. If you make it to enzed, look me up. I'll show you roads that'll make you forget what song you're listening to

We will be there in late October for as long as our visa allows. For some odd reason the wife wants to start in the very south and work our way north. I’m thinking we should begin in the north and go south as it warms.

 

[Paul Marx]

I don't listen to anything when riding apart from the bike and what the world throws at me.
There's enough back ground muzak in supermarkets.
My wife with whom I often ride would like an intercom. No way!
Paul

 

[1200ts]

The 500 turbo is interesting but would probably not last long with air cooling.

Back in the late 1970's there were two Jota's for sale here in Southern California. They were built by the same person, one was turbocharged and the other was supercharged. I was at a motorcycles swap meet (an autojumble in England?) and this was the only time I ever saw them.

A couple years later I saw a Jota with nitrous oxide. Forty years later these bike have disappeared.

It was so long ago I don't remember who built these bikes. I was riding a Yamaha RD250 at the time and a Laverda was way more expensive than I could afford.

 

[Vince]

Ricki Racer Lance Weil?

 

[Laverda SF]

Vince: A Breganzie RICKI Racer - I'm Guilty ;o)

1970 Breganzie SOHC 750 SF slightly modified .

Imagine if that SOHC 750 was Turbo Charged, I believe the 500cc DOHC Breganzie Twin Turbo would do a Hell of a Lot Better but unfortunately the bike never existed.

 

[1200ts]

Ricki Racer Lance Weil?

Probably it was Lance as his shop was only a few miles away. I did not know him or Laverda's very well at the time but was friends with him a few years later.

 

[Laverda SF]

By all means, if you are so inclined, build a Turbo Charged Breganzie DOHC 500cc ;o)

By the mid 70's Honda had a DOHC 550 Twin to compliment their successful CB750 4cyl - The problem Honda had is that they lacked the Italian frame and suspension design back then.

 

[chrisk]

By the mid 70's Honda had a DOHC 550 Twin to compliment their successful CB750 4cyl -

You’re confused….

The Honda 500, then later a 550, were both four cylinder SOHC.