mounting RGS style Jota mufflers on 1200

Paul LeClair

Paul LeClair

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I happen to have a spare set of nice condition Jota mufflers that came off an RGS. Nice chrome, a few nicks and chips, but overall good shape.

The RGS style have two bolts sticking out of them, to bolt onto a bracket on the RGS which is itself rubber mounted.

The 1200 muffler mounting typically has the housing right on/in the mufflers for the rubber isolator bushing.

I have seen 1200 style Jota mufflers mounted on RGS's, by turning the mufflers upside down, as seen on this Corsa photo just posted here on our forum on the thread "Corsa Restrored" http://www.laverdaforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,93478.msg332885.html#msg332885  Very nice bike  by the way, but the upside down mufflers kind of stick out at me looking at the photo.

What I have not seen is RGS style mounting mufflers on 1200's. I called Wolfgang to see if I could obtain used RGS muffler brackets to modify  or if there is any sort of adaptor, but came up empty.

So, before I begin re inventing the wheel and fabricating some nightmarish adaptor bracket myself, has anyone stuck RGS style mufflers on earlier bikes, and if so, how did you mount them?

Paul LeClair

ps anyone want to swap my  RGS style Jota mufflers for 1200 style Jota mufflers in similar condition?

pps yes, this is intended for the 82 1200 TS Mirage I recently restored, the stock LaFranconi's are just not doing it for me..... no great surprise I suppose.

ppps if I get really desperate for some engine music, I may have to haul the authentic Laverda three into one pipe out of the shed, but that seems rather at odds with the general character of the 1200 TS Mirage... :o :o
 
I did it on POP.
The actual silencers are the stainless straight throughs he sells for the RGS and SFC1000 but the mounts are the same as the RGS.
I use the brackets off the RGS and made a couple of brackets out of angle iron to mount it to the footpeg bolts.

Also it was possible to angle them any way I wanted as there were no alloy footrest plates to get in the way (as on an RGS).





 
thanks guys. Grant, the photos are excellent, thanks. Looks pretty straightforward now that I have seen how you did it. I still have to scare up a pair of RGS brackets though.....

Paul LeClair
 
It was a tight fit.
In order to clear the swingarm I had to finesse the bracket angles until it fit.
 
Bent the original RGS brackets and cut the angle iron bracket to clear the swing arm.
It took a bit of doing but eventually it was able to work well.
No hammers were used during the process, but quite a bit of bending in a vice.
 
My short adaptors kick up the angle of the silencers. If you want them less steep you may need a different sution.
It also took a lot of finessing for the associated bracketry and rubbers to clear the swing arm, bit it is do-able.
 
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