What Laverda model is this?

[Jarvo]

My mk 2 in the low 8000s 1982 180 jota in the USA came with low comp pistons A11 cams and different slides needles and other carb parts plus non jota mufflers but it is orange . Slaters supplied cams pistons and carb parts plus other advice and part's to wake it up in the mid 1980s also came with a speedo with a low mph range if i remember that also went in to the old parts box

 

[Laverdalothar]

Ha - that's interesting. Thanks for keeping us honest here. One should tell JLO...

 

[Tom Eatman]

Sorry, the number listed in JLO's registry is correct... it's mine. I bought the bike new in Tempe, Arizona and still have it. It was delivered with the required for USA market with left side shifting using the cross-over, A12 camshafts, and incredibly lean jetting to make it past emissions tests. All has been sorted out over the years and it celebrated 150,000 miles last August. Good Horse .

Tom

 

[Tom Eatman]

8155 is the same as Lothar's picture of 8130. Second series 180 engine with the ND generator and ignition pick-ups on the left. I believe it was Cor Dees who told me this was the very last 180 bike on the assembly line.

Tom

 

[redax5]

8155 is the same as Lothar's picture of 8130. Second series 180 engine with the ND generator and ignition pick-ups on the left. I believe it was Cor Dees who told me this was the very last 180 bike on the assembly line.

Tom

so it seems Laverda made some 180 bikes after they swapped to the 120 Jota as the engine I have here right now is #8140 and it has a 120 crank
and I do know the difference between a 180 crank and a 120 crank

I bought #8129 along with #8120 a number of years ago when we bought 19 Laverda's out of Serbia
Very interesting

 

[Paul Marx]

It proves if need be that Moto Laverda practised overlap.
Paul

 

[mauricejota7604]

I remember seeing a late 180 Laverda 1000cc bike in northern NSW a lot of years ago, the Swiss owner Im sure his name was Bruno, had bought it into Aus doing a world trip.
The bike was sold to him as a 3CL and it shared many low grade features like an RGA like discs with no carriers, It was a similar color to this bike with gold coloured pin lines.
He told me the story of how he run off in a corner crashing in a corn field not far out of the Veneto region, he managed to ride the bike into Breganze but it was in August and everything was shut.
He mananged to raise the attention of someone inside the Laverda fatory and they promptly assisted with replacing the broken parts on his bike so he could continue on.

 

[sfcpiet]

I remember seeing a late 180 Laverda 1000cc bike in northern NSW a lot of years ago, the Swiss owner Im sure his name was Bruno, had bought it into Aus doing a world trip.
The bike was sold to him as a 3CL and it shared many low grade features like an RGA like discs with no carriers, It was a similar color to this bike with gold coloured pin lines.
He told me the story of how he run off in a corner crashing in a corn field not far out of the Veneto region, he managed to ride the bike into Breganze but it was in August and everything was shut.
He mananged to raise the attention of someone inside the Laverda fatory and they promptly assisted with replacing the broken parts on his bike so he could continue on.

I remember swiss Bruno! Spent a very "colourful" weekend with him and a load of other Laverda nuts in the Alsace region in the early '90s. He dashed to Basel train station to collect a DMC box that Mr.Witt had given a locomotive driver in Cologne for an "express" delivery, Andreas had fried his DMC through a short circuit iIrc.

Rescue was only a phone call away and often the impossible could be made to work. Easy-going times!

piet

 

[mauricejota7604]

I remember swiss Bruno! Spent a very "colourful" weekend with him and a load of other Laverda nuts in the Alsace region in the early '90s. He dashed to Basel train station to collect a DMC box that Mr.Witt had given a locomotive driver in Cologne for an "express" delivery, Andreas had fried his DMC through a short circuit iIrc.

Rescue was only a phone call away and often the impossible could be made to work. Easy-going times!

piet

Its a small Laverda world we live in Piet thats for sure!!!

 

[Laverdalothar]

so it seems Laverda made some 180 bikes after they swapped to the 120 Jota as the engine I have here right now is #8140 and it has a 120 crank
and I do know the difference between a 180 crank and a 120 crank

I bought #8129 along with #8120 a number of years ago when we bought 19 Laverda's out of Serbia
Very interesting

Maybe that had to do with the country the machines were sold to, open or special orders etc. - who knows! I mean - it was a small factory, customer oriented. one-offs weren't totally out of range. The 0001 1000 SFC was one of those. Special built for a friend of Uwe Witt, long after the prototype and before official production started. A Serial-Number unseen normally on regular Laverda series bikes.