1983 Laverda RGS1000 in Executive Trim

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wallaman

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New to the Forum, but have been riding Laverdas since the '70s. Selling my original paint 1983 RGS1000 in Executive Trim. This bike went through an extensive mechanical restoration by well-known Laverda expert Scott Potter about 10 years ago and has only been ridden about 1500 miles since. Current mileage is approximately 28,300. (I have extensive documentation from Scott Potter on his work.) His summary below:

Disassemble the machine down to every last nut and bolt.

Send out all chrome components to be replated.

Strip frame, center stand and rear fork to bare metal.

Fabricate gusset plates to strengthen headstock.

Powdercoat frame and rear fork gloss black.

Renew headstock bearings and rear fork bearings.

Disassemble engine.

Clean sand cast engine components.

Bead blast as necessary.

Follow with hot tank wash and clear out all passages with compressed air.

Polish all alloy covers.

Replace wearing components as necessary.

Lighten clutch basket and pressure plate.

Machine true and lighten clutch drum.

Send out cyl head for 3 angle Serdi seat cut.

Reassemble engine to factory tolerances.

Check valve timing to published specs.

Disassemble, clean and inspect starter clutch.

Reassemble with new springs, plungers, and rollers.

Refit to engine.

Refit engine to chassis.

Disassemble front forks and clean.

Check fork tubes for straight and true.

Polish fork tubes.

Fabricate adapters for cartridge emulators.

Modify damping rods for cartridge emulators

Reassemble with new seals and oil.

Refinish yokes and instrument mount.

Refit forks to chassis.

Renew rear damper assemblies with custom Works Performance units (since replaced w/ new Ikon units).

Disassemble brake hydraulics.

Clean and reassemble with new kits, pads and pistons.

Remove rotor surface area of iron oxide.

Mount rotors to hubs with new fasteners.


The bike is currently fitted with Mikuni Flat Slide carbs, but stock carbs are included with the sale. The bike just had an oil change and a new battery installed and runs as it should. When I rode it today, I noticed the fuel gauge and oil temp gauge weren't working but pretty sure I just forgot to reconnect harnesses when I had the tank off last. I am getting old and have just had some recent health issues and this bike is just too big for me at this stage of my life. My loss, your gain. Asking $15K obo. The bike is located in Phoenix, AZ USA. If you have a serious interest and have questions, please message me here or contact me at wallaman at cox dot net

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Appreciate all the comments. Here's a few more pics that should answer the questions above and a couple from Scott Potter's meticulous mechanical refresh.

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arancia said:
Does your question mean that you know how to decode the VIN into the various RGS/RGA/Corsa/Executive models?
Please share!
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I was curious if bike was a rare red factory Exec model. No secret to decoding these bikes, the headstock tag shows the sub model.
 
OK
How do you get the sub-model from that encoding? What do the codes mean?
For example, I have a red RGS "Corsarized" by the importers of the era according to the Corsa side badges and front disks but with Executive bags though not the fairing extensions nor higher bars and not as far as I can tell the Corsa engine tuning.
I'm interested to be able to work out how many and which variants of "mongrels" were sold in USA though I expect that only communications between Slater USA and the dealers of the time would actually be able to disclose what model type each particular bike was sold as?
Do you have the code?
 
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arancia said:
OK
How do you get the sub-model from that encoding? What do the codes mean?
For example, I have a red RGS "Corsarized" by the importers of the era according to the Corsa side badges and front disks but with Executive bags though not the fairing extensions nor higher bars and not as far as I can tell the Corsa engine tuning.
I'm interested to be able to work out how many and which variants of "mongrels" were sold in USA though I expect that only communications between Slater USA and the dealers of the time would actually be able to disclose what model type each particular bike was sold as?
Do you have the code?
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The headstock tag shows sub model. The OP's tag reads 'RGS', my '84 Exec tag reads 'Executive', etc. Regarding your bike it would be necessary to know who did the cosmetic/brake mods-by importer you are referring to the selling dealer? My understanding is that Laverda records were lost when the Breganze era ended & who knows if the importer kept records. Do you have any original documentation? Without that it would be difficult to substantiate the who or when.
120 registry: https://www.laverdamania.net/registre120.htm
 
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IAG said:
'84 Exec tag reads 'Executive', etc.
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OK, I think I get it, you're saying there is wording "Executive" on the VIN model etc label and so you are not talking about decoding "MVDHA2" etc. and that if it does not say Executive on the VIN tag then it's one of the numerous "mongrels" put together by the importer/dealer like my "Corsa" which is really a base model RGS with bits added/changed by importer/dealer. There was chatter long ago that Slater had being doing that to achieve more sales in USA in the early 80s supplying badges and bits as needed to build these "Corsa" and "Executive" models on base RGS bikes but I had not realized that the submodel was called out on the VIN label outside the unintelligible encoding of the VIN.
I imagine almost forty years later in the US the freedom of information act should make all that available from DOT or whichever agency did manage the importation and VIN registration process and recording, no need for lost Breganze records.
Anyone know if that information is freely available now for bikes imported all that time ago - perhaps then we'd have a legitimate record of how many bikes were really imported and sold in USA? Questions have been asked about how many Zane' bike came here, I have not been able to get a response from the former importer manager, perhaps the US government and VIN management is the answer since that all ended more than twenty years ago.

Now we're way off topic, perhaps this needs a new subject, apologies to the OP for taking this off track, something like "How many Laverdas were imported to USA".
 
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