What specialist assistance?
Paul
With all due respect to the seller since it's not clear if he is the collector or the sales agent or executor of the collector's estate: "Project opportunity", "new engine and transmission parts", look at picture 8/10 - how much engine dismantling was done and why? It looks like a little more than a cosmetic restoration. That photo shows cases with ends of crankshaft, main gear shaft and no valve cover. So why did the motor need such major attention, is everything else in there and assembled correctly, more than just polishing the outer cases to make it look pretty?
Sorry, analytical engineer mind in action - who knows what might be needed to make this a useful motor. If it does need specialist attention from somebody who knows how to put these motors together properly, and imho those people are now sadly lacking in USA where if you can't do it yourself with local machinists who know nothing about these bikes, then you may have to put the bits that are present into a crate and send it to UK or Germany?
With that engineering background, I acknowledge that the Laverda bikes and motors are not complex and that the oem control systems are not complicated but to somebody who thinks this is just a case of bolting together some boxes of bits, I fear this could be a serious learning opportunity and an endless moneypit. It's good that it's discussed here in an audience of people who know the reality.
We've talked here before about how the specialists are rapidly disappearing. I think it really is a now or never situation if you need something that requires specialist knowledge, otherwise we'll all be on our own as the few remaining decide it's their retirement time.
Happy to discuss this point of view over wine or beer - meet at Baskerville for a good debate?
(fwiw I was at a couple of the Terry B organized Santa Barbara events as referenced in the seller's poster article and have the sweatshirt. I don't specifically remember a red SFC1000 there but do remember and have photos of a yellow SFC1000 because it had Fournales rear shocks that caught my attention, belonging to some Hollywood actor in the Kung Fu movies, name will come to me perhaps later, as at the time and still now I'm much more interested in the SFC twins than triples. At the time Terry B was looking to sell a couple of SFC750s including a cast wheel Electronica for a sensible price but I just didn't have the available funds - pity, might have been a good investment!!!)
