19,000 750s Manufactured?

Ok so my guess is Laverda still has all the Spares for the early 750s. I did not know that. & parts bikes here are unheard of...Don't know where people are finding those...The Parking Motorcycle.com has full fledged Laverdas listed all over Europe but the prices are way high for what look like parts bikes. One Laverda guy told me do Not buy a Laverda in Europe. Better deals here. But where?
 
Evan said:
Ok so my guess is Laverda still has all the Spares for the early 750s. I did not know that. & parts bikes here are unheard of...Don't know where people are finding those...The Parking Motorcycle.com has full fledged Laverdas listed all over Europe but the prices are way high for what look like parts bikes. One Laverda guy told me do Not buy a Laverda in Europe. Better deals here. But where?
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Don't believe a word of it.
Decent Laverda motorcycles can be found for decent prices in Europe.
The fate of the original factory spares is well documented.
Paul
 
Evan said:
Ok so my guess is Laverda still has all the Spares for the early 750s.
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Laverda as a motorcycle enterprise no longer exists. Spare parts all come from people or businesses that have either bought up old stock from anywhere it became available or are having it remanufactured. I would tend to agree that the US has Laverdas at better prices than almost any other country. As Paul said, if you look you can find decent buys in Europe, but depends how well you search - and what you're after. An orange Jota at a bargain price? "Tell 'em they're dreamin!"
 
Apparently, the factory spares were destroyed as well as the plant to make it. There is a law about companies being required to supply bits of a time period after closing and not having it avoids these Laws for whoever owns the Name now. That's what I remember hearing. There was lots of talk about rescuing this stuff but that was ignored by the new owner. Happy to know more.
 
Vince said:
Apparently, the factory spares were destroyed as well as the plant to make it. There is a law about companies being required to supply bits of a time period after closing and not having it avoids these Laws for whoever owns the Name now. That's what I remember hearing. There was lots of talk about rescuing this stuff but that was ignored by the new owner. Happy to know more.
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from what a prominent Laverda parts dealer told me, a lot of the spare parts were rescued but not all off them, there were a number of containers filled with spares during the factory clean out and rescued
 
redax5 said:
from what a prominent Laverda parts dealer told me, a lot of the spare parts were rescued but not all off them, there were a number of containers filled with spares during the factory clean out and rescued
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Hi Red, some months ago there was an information about a guy in Italy saying that he had dozens of 750cc engines, cylinder heads, barrels, crankcases, etc, all NOS. All these parts really exist, I've seen them, but although they appear to be all new and never used, all of them have major defects, wrong dimensions, etc... Some of them don't even have the stud holes. We were supposing that it was the stock (or part of it) of defective parts coming out of the fundry in the 70s, then stocked somewhere for more than 50 years. We were also thinking that maybe some people bought some of these parts in the past, not being able to use them and loosing their money...
 
redax5 said:
from what a prominent Laverda parts dealer told me, a lot of the spare parts were rescued but not all off them, there were a number of containers filled with spares during the factory clean out and rescued
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Does rescued rhyme with stolen in Italian?
🙂
Paul
 
MVma said:
Hi Red, some months ago there was an information about a guy in Italy saying that he had dozens of 750cc engines, cylinder heads, barrels, crankcases, etc, all NOS. All these parts really exist, I've seen them, but although they appear to be all new and never used, all of them have major defects, wrong dimensions, etc... Some of them don't even have the stud holes. We were supposing that it was the stock (or part of it) of defective parts coming out of the fundry in the 70s, then stocked somewhere for more than 50 years. We were also thinking that maybe some people bought some of these parts in the past, not being able to use them and loosing their money...
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You could go into the old factory and pick up defective parts quite recently.
Paul
 
I brought a NOS set of Ceriani yokes from a well known supplier that the top clamp must of come out of the rejects bin as the right hand hole bored for the stanchion was a few degrees out from the l/h so the forks couldn't be assembled.
 
Evan said:
OK & does Laverda still make Tractors?
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No although Paul may refer to his twin as a tractor if he wants 😀 - the brand Laverda is still sold but as they have been for years as a combine harvester ( never made tractors although the companies that owned the brand over the last 50 years or so has made tractors in another brand ) their sales of Laverda combines are limited to a few countries like Turkey and Italy but it will cease when the volumes get too low to sustain a sales force and profitability - the combines made in Breganze are sold in Massey Ferguson and Fendt brands - photo from the 70th anniversary factory visit IMG_1652.jpeg
 
fine in a straight line, little dodgy on corners - just like a Z900 - you need to raise the front works a tad when cornering, otherwise the inner workings dig in and everything turns to dirt.
They don't like sharp u-turns.
 
DavidH said:
fine in a straight line, little dodgy on corners - just like a Z900 - you need to raise the front works a tad when cornering, otherwise the inner workings dig in and everything turns to dirt.
They don't like sharp u-turns.
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But they sure do light up paddocks they work in. 😀

In the 80’s and 90’s they had a reputation of setting themselves and crops alight in Australia. Probably why their sales dropped off here.
 
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