Proper colour of 1200 frame?

I know he makes them in fibreglass, the angles are a bit tight for carbon.
 
laverdakeith said:
Done one with a nickle plated frame last year, looked pretty handsome I recon.
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That looks really nice.
 
Just moving away from the frame colour slightly, wasn't the final Mirage green not what was intended? If not then was the green in the attached link something like the target colour?

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Shame about the seamed silencers it has on but looks V nice.

Paul
 
GPR1200 said:
Just moving away from the frame colour slightly, wasn't the final Mirage green not what was intended? If not then was the green in the attached link something like the target colour?

Paul
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I take it you mean the eventual colour chosen and not the last Mirage made...  Hard to answer: I understood Slaters wanted to distinguish the UK only Mirage from other 1200s and were asked to pick from a range of colours available at the time from the local car industry's palette.

The green in the pic is very nice and may indeed have been Slaters primary choice. It could well be that someone in the paint shop was either a little creative or hungover and somehow gave us the green we have today with a bit of a golden tint..
 
Andy,
        Your assumption was correct. Thanks. Either green is far better than the desert paintwork I've seen somewhere before. What were they thinking?

Regards

Paul
 
I have in the shop at the moment the supposedly first 1200 TS that was displayed at the EICMA show in Milan. The bodywork, including fenders, is metallic olive green with gold pin-striping in the same pattern as the production bikes. The frame and wheels are in the horrid/interesting gold used on the 1200 Anniversary models. Looking at the normal wear and tear this looks to be the original paint regardless what its pedigree might be. Strangely enough when you add in all of the other shiny bits the paint scheme works quite well.

Tom
 
GPR1200 said:
Andy,
        Your assumption was correct. Thanks. Either green is far better than the desert paintwork I've seen somewhere before. What were they thinking?

Regards

Paul
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You mean this paintwork..?  :-X :-X :-X
 

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Andy,
        That's the one. Apparently my Mirage 1848 had those colours at one time. It will be restored to green at some point. The tank, side panels and tail unit were sold to someone in Aus a while back.

Regards

Paul
 
GPR1200 said:
Andy,
        That's the one. Apparently my Mirage 1848 had those colours at one time. It will be restored to green at some point. The tank, side panels and tail unit were sold to someone in Aus a while back.

Regards

Paul
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Interesting: mine is 1850 and #7 of the Steve Finch jobbies, i guess yours would have been number 5 or 6... I also just might be that someone in Aus... :-X
How are your centre mains..?

AndyW
 
Hi Andy,
          In good hands. Mr Nairn will be doing the work in the new year. Mine has Ceriani forks and I didn't know they did a Mirage with those until I saw March 1979 edition of Superbike magazine that tested 2 Mirages, 1 with Marzocchis and one with Cerianis. The quality of the paint looks good in your picture though.

Regards

Paul
 
GPR1200 said:
Hi Andy,
          In good hands. Mr Nairn will be doing the work in the new year. Mine has Ceriani forks and I didn't know they did a Mirage with those until I saw March 1979 edition of Superbike magazine that tested 2 Mirages, 1 with Marzocchis and one with Cerianis. The quality of the paint looks good in your picture though.

Regards

Paul
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Well that is interesting: I never knew any 1200s came with Cerianis either: could have been a dealer experiment or something.. I'll look out for the magazine. Mine sports Marzocchis though that doesn't mean they were original. They were crap when I took delivery of the bike and so had Red fix them up with some of  Racetech's Gold Emulators 8). I don't actually know if my centre mains have been 'done'..

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When the 1200 was introduced in 1978 it had Cerianis front and back and CDI ignition. Also the Laverda logos on the tank were black stickers. Pretty soon after they went to BTZ, screw on badges and Marzocchi suspension.
 
Cheers Andy and Grant,
          From ages ago I've kept a record of the engine numbers affected by duff main bearings.
1000s
6204 - 6594
6598 - 6603
6634 - 6675

1200s
1519 - 1566
1833 - 2533
and no 2564

As you can see our 1200s fall in there but if yours is OK it's probably been fixed already.

The "cooking" version of the 1200 always(?) had Cerianis and the Mirage seems to have quickly adopted Marzocchis. Probably more ground clearance for racing with the latter hence the different sizes of centre stand.

I'll keep an eye out for the magazine (might scan it and email the article if nobody is looking at the weekend).

Talking of which not long to the weekend now! :O)

Paul
 
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