Laverda 500 Barn Find

[pf1]

Even a fool like me wouldn't want this but it might float some individuals boat.

Laverda 500 Barn Find | eBay

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Barn find, air cooled Laverda 500 twin. What you see in the photos is what you will get. Rare bike. </p>

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[Jo]

Holy crap! Was the barn located in the area of high and low tide?

 

[sfc vintage]

Hello.It can easily become a motorcycle again, it just requires a little patience .

 

[The Sock]

I've never been able to understand how any motorcycle can be so abused and neglected.

 

[Eurocycleguy]

I don't which bike would be the deeper money pit the Lav or the Gilera. Maybe a draw.

 

[LaverdaIan]

Now I know that I have been hunting for any old motor to grab the head for Monty rebuild, but not even I am that desperate..

 

[Tree Hugger]

Makes me feel good about the condition of the 750 I’m trying to rescue

 

[Otto]

This one will be used for spares I think.
How terrible the bike is, you can rebuild it, as long it’s special enough and you take your time.

 

[Paul Marx]

Nothing very much wrong with that.
Just a matter of price.
Paul

 

[sfcpiet]

Dragged out of a pond more likely.

piet

 

[chrisk]

This one will be used for spares I think.
How terrible the bike is, you can rebuild it, as long it’s special enough and you take your time.

What was the story behind that crust ridden thing when you found it?

 

[Andy J]

It unfortunately went up in flames in Bonny Scotland. This is what it used to look like.
And the barn find does float my boat....

 

[Paul Marx]

Dragged out of a pond more likely.

piet

I have a bike dragged out of a pond.
It looks better than that.
Paul

 

[Steve G.]

This model was never delivered and is not found anywhere in my country, Canada. Nonetheless, if you follow the classic rule from full worth as a 100 pointer, on down, what is this bike worth at a reputable auction such as say, Mecum?

Restoring this machine cosmetically and mechanically, as an enthusiast rather than a professional, paying yourself 11 cents an hour, probably is higher than the value of this bike as a 100 point bike. As is the case, with many classics, it’s more about passion rather than common sense.

 

[Otto]

It unfortunately went up in flames in Bonny Scotland. This is what it used to look like.
And the barn find does float my boat....

That is also how the will look like eventually

 

[chrisk]

I have a bike dragged out of a pond.
It looks better than that.
Paul

I rode a bike into an irrigation channel at night. My night was doomed when the headlight went dull, dull, dull, dark.

 

[Andy]

I rode a bike into an irrigation channel at night. My night was doomed when the headlight went dull, dull, dull, dark.

You’d be sunk for good in these ones, either the dry side or the wet. And Greg said he knew someone who used these roads for race testing?!!!?

 

[Tree Hugger]

This one will be used for spares I think.
How terrible the bike is, you can rebuild it, as long it’s special enough and you take your time.

Is that the Bunt bike? Remember reading about that (I had a Mk1 Monty at the time) and entered the competition. Did you win it Andy?
Still got all the guff in my bound copies of SuperBike

 

[Otto]

Is that the Bunt bike? Remember reading about that (I had a Mk1 Monty at the time) and entered the competition. Did you win it Andy?
Still got all the guff in my bound copies of SuperBike

O man, I am Dutch. What does “guff in my bound” mean?
Andy didn’t win but is the first and maybe the only one who used the bike really, as far as I know.

 

[Vince]

"Guff" is a slang term for Data or information, and "in my bound" are carefully kept copies of that mentioned Magazine.