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No accounting for taste ( or lack of it ) ; a fool and his money ; business is business etc ., etc ., etc ....... nice strides though ...... ( 1970 ) .

Rosco once did a "celebrity lap " of the IoM course .....crowds at the Creg spotted him up at Kates Cottage....about a minute later he rounded the Creg and continued down toward Hillberry at a stately 40 mph....the lap record remained intact.....
 
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chrisk said:
What was the date of that article?
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MCN...Jan 1995.......when I say suffocated at birth it`s my way of saying that things never progressed beyond 1978 for the V6.....( this planned limited run in `95 came to nothing )........

Now that Kawasaki have a controlling stake in Bimota I seem to recall that Kawasaki were interested in gaining a foothold in the specialist motorcycle market in Europe as far back as the early `eighties by acquiring ailing Moto Laverda.....not sure what stage discussions reached but seem to recall reports that whilst Piero was keen for this to go through , Massimo was certainly against it..... ( may be wrong on this but seem to remember something along these lines.... )...

Also about the mid `nineties plan to produce a limited run of V6`s....this obviously came to nothing , but was there maybe at least one assembled for show purposes ...?....

Never been quite sure how all the V6`s totalled up...

The first two were the one raced at the `Bol which Massimo kept , and Piero now has ( and is now on display at the museum in Italy ? )....then the second one mentioned above as being mothballed at the Zane factory ( in 1995 ) , but was there then another " empty case " bike assembled at the same time as these two , for show / display purposes only ...?...

Then there was the Cor Dees bike , plus was he working on a second bike as well ...?...

And then there is the possibility of another V6 being put together for the purposes of the 1995 limited run which never happened ... ?....or maybe they used the V6 which was mothballed at Zane for publicity purposes instead .....this appears to be modified with twin shocks as was the `Bol bike .

I think it was around this tine the Shenken ( ? ) Corporation in Japan were also interested in acquiring Laverda , or if I recall more interested in acquiring the Laverda name only , for marketing / promotion purposes...

I believe the idea was to market a limited number of Toyota V12 sport / racing cars in Japan and sell them as Laverdas , and then using the publicity and interest generated by this to launch a whole range of Laverda badged products such as watches ; phones ; socks ; hair gel or whatever off the back of the Laverda sports car sales .......
 
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AFAIK the three bikes are the ‘Massimo’ V6, now in the Laverda Corse collection and the two ‘prototype/show’ bikes completed by Cor. There was a spare engine, some of which was used by Cor to make parts for his motors. I’m sure others will chip in with further clarification.
And the sports car project I think was the Laverda ‘Karla’.
 
Andy J said:
AFAIK the three bikes are the ‘Massimo’ V6, now in the Laverda Corse collection and the two ‘prototype/show’ bikes completed by Cor. There was a spare engine, some of which was used by Cor to make parts for his motors. I’m sure others will chip in with further clarification.
And the sports car project I think was the Laverda ‘Karla’.
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That`s interesting but I`m just wondering about the bike shown covered in a plastic sheet ( obviously not the `Bol bike ) , which according to the article is one of two `78 originals.......maybe this was an empty case display bike , or maybe it housed ( at that time ) the spare complete engine....

I know there are pictures of an early ( the first ? ) V6 with the monoshock type suspension which made it virtually un-rideable during early testing hence the switch to twin shocks....I`m now wondering how that particular machine fits in to all of this...was that the bike that was modified and became the `Bol bike... ? ...It would help to know how many rolling chassis ( rather than just engines ) were produced back in `77 /78 ........

I`m beginning to wish I`d never brought this up....getting far too complicated ....:(
 
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It's been discussed a lot before, it's a great mystery. Just like The Holly Grail. Makes for some great Sherlock-type commentary.
 
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Four inlet , three exhaust.....abandoned for road bikes as Yamaha found if you have more than two exhaust valves , then the middle one will eventually burn out....

I`ve a feeling if Ducati or Bimota had come up with this , they would have put it into production anyway and let the customer sort the problems out .....
 
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Four inlet , three exhaust.....abandoned for road bikes as Yamaha found if you have more than two exhaust valves , then the middle one will eventually burn out....

I`ve a feeling if Ducati or Bimota had come up with this , they would have put it into production anyway and let the customer sort the problems out .....
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In the 90s, we experimented with 7 and 9 valves per cylinder heads at Maserati with 2 and 3 F1 plugs per cylinder. This all in a 2.0l v6 biturbo configuration fot the barchetta racecar series. For serieproduction cars this resulted in 3 and 4 valves per cylinder and a small series (very thought after) of 6 valves per cylinder and with 3 camshafts per bank. The Honda oval cylinder with 8 valves is also interesting
 
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Someone who knows should set up a V6 registry......there would only be four or five entries at the most....should`nt be too difficult....;)
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V6 info according to what Cor told me:
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