SFC 1000 1988-1989 models

We (me and owner of 3355) got cofirmation that both bikes came from the factory with these instruments and the special modified bracket. Apparently the bikes had been ordered by Enzo for french customers (there were no importer anymore in France) but they never came because some parts (including the Veglia clocks) were missing on the shelves at the factory. So Enzo asked to the factory to find a solution and they fitted these instruments, so the bikes were finally delivered.

When I got the bike, Wolfgang supplied a brand NOS dash with all the instruments (only the speedo was used) and the bike looked really better :-)





Oh, and both bikes came with a 3 into 1 Termignoni!

 
MVma said:
...occasional electrical short on a wire (the wire for the rev counter on the RGS).
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...and an occasional electrical short with the same wire!!
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My bike also has that RGS wire set (does all of SFC's have?) and the rev counter wire was just taped beside the fairing connector and almost get shortcutted. Better to use shrink tube or something similar to insulate the wire end.

I plan to take some new photos when I go next time to my garage.

Who made these NC machined wheel hubs?

My bike also has NC machined front fork yokes. Someone told me when I bought the bike that same corporation did them than the wheel hubs (don't remember who or when), but I doubt that can be also a some kind of fairy tale (or BS like Piet like to express). I have doubted my bike was rided on the track and the yokes may have different geometry or it is also possible the original yokes went broken when the bike was crashed.

Regards
-Jouni

 
The hubs were machined in Germany, all manually, no NC/CNC available then (at least not to a viable price).  I myself cut the billet lobs and drove them to the machine shop in the later years.

The Smiths clocks failed, either because the drive cables were incorrectly made and fitted, or the grease inside the instruments, that had been stored for the better part of 15 years by then, simply gave up.  End effect was brass swarf inside the clock and a solid drive to the needle.  This issue had been attended to long before I was so deeply involved.

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Really weird, never saw another 1000 SFC with the Jota clocks...  :o

They are for sure not that bad, but as Piet pointed out, a SFC simply should have the Veglia dash, just as it was intended. On the other hand, these little differences are what makes the bikes special, right... :D just like a missprinted stamp.

 
Piet if you wanted to publish a small book about the last triples built I am sure you could fill it with interesting reading!!!!
If you tell us more you will spoil the book Ok now tell us more  :D :D :D :D :D
 
I remember seeing a couple of what must have been some of the last SFC 1000s (black with wire wheels) to leave the factory in a showroom in the UK and both had the round ND clocks fitted.
I don't think the dealer fitted them so I'm assuming the factory was using remaining stocks.
 
Maybe by then all bets were off and they were finishing off bikes with whatever stock was on the shelves.
It would have been around the time they went tits up.
 
it might have simply been something different:

-the belgium distributor ordered them that way because he did not trust the Veglialiers or did not like the look of it. Or....

-due to the Veglia had Laverda-Logos on it and the Jota ones not, they could order it for minimum numbers. Maybe they did not intent to do another, 3rd batch of the 1000 SFC and so simply sold these with different dashboards as they ran out of stock of the other ones. then, when there was more request for the 1000 SFC, they ordered another 100 clocks with Laverda on it and never sold them off, that's why there are still some available as NOS.


Who knows, does not really matter, right...

 
I have a black sfc wire wheels etc it has round nd clocks fitted, the chap I bought it from 10 years ago told me it was a Slaters bike and that he had enquired with them and that they confirmed it had the clocks fitted from new. My bike is in original condition, it is in good nick and hasn?t been repainted or restored so I am prepared to believe it is correct. Slaters had two bikes like mine for sale when new.
 
I have come very late into this conversation but my black SFC1000 was delivered to Three Cross Imports in July 1988 when they wrote to me requesting I collect it. Number 3345. It had Vegilia clocks, chrome down popes and chrome big silencers, that I still have in the loft. I didn't realise that more continued to be produced. I have had the body panels off many times and seen no signs of red paint. No hole is drilled in the headstock for fuel overflow. Correct me but I placed the order in May 1988 it still was a factory built bike and not Moto Witt or other. Yes its a bit lashed up with all those fairing fixings but I've gone through it and it's not awful. Am I one of the still lucky ones Before things changed for the worse?? As mentioned I am only just putting it on the road after 30 years of slumber.
 

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My SFC1000 is 3388 and has the frame bracing and Veglia clocks. It was red when new and sold in Germany. The Marvic magnesium wheels, bigger brakes and Ohlin shocks were also put on the bike in Germany. I still have the wire wheels and another set of bodywork in orange but it looks better in green.

The registration paperwork for the bike says it is a 1981 1200TS as does the plate on the head stock. As these bikes were not legal for sale in the USA when new, the original owner had to make it a 1200TS to get it past customs. I was told by my Laverda dealer when I got the bike 20 years ago that customs destroyed seven SFC1000's that people were trying to import in to the US.

Cost to buy the bike in Germany and add the wheels, brakes and shocks, plus the cost of a used 1200TS to get the head stock plate was $18,000 in 1988.

By the way. anyone reconize what bike these brake rotors are off of? Buttons are worn out and very loose. I need either oversize buttons or new rotors. I am guessing Ducati?
 

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Awesome looking bike. Now THAT'S my kind of rear brake ... bigger front MUCh smaller rear - way to go. The wheels look trick too. Can't believe the tale of the SFC1000s destroyed - and having to buy a bike to take the cert plate off it!
 
The front brakes will stop the bike with one finger on the lever. The rear brake is completely useless and needs a bigger caliper.

The rear rotor used to be a full floater but it craked and scattered the rotor all over the road on a hard stop. The rear rotor now is off a Bimota.
 
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It is a very small caliper! I've gone with one similar to a Zane/Monster. I don't need a powerful back brake - just something to hold it on a hill and steady the back end a little braking into corners.
 
piranha-bro2 said:
It is a very small caliper! I've gone with one similar to a Zane/Monster. I don't need a powerful back brake - just something to hold it on a hill and steady the back end a little braking into corners.
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It's actually the relation between a to large master and a to small (for that large master) caliper. On the standard caliper, a 12mm or 1/2 inch one will work much better. That's what they used on the Zane's I think and also on the GSX-R's that many ride the rims of (me included).

I have the direct comparison: on the 1000 SFC, I have still the original master but the GSX-R caliper. This does work equaliy bad as the original one. The same caliper on the Jota with a 1/2 inch master from the GSX-R works so well that I can even make the rear wheel (150, modern, sticky tire) to block if I want.

So - if you can replace "just" the master, it will make a big difference also on the original caliper!
 
The rear master cylinder is 12mm. The bore size of the brake caliper, I don't remember. What bike used this rear caliper, I don't know? It is very small and completely useless. If you are depending upon it to stop the bike you will be dead!

Although the front brakes work great, the master cylinder is 14mm which I think is too small for four pot calipers. The brake lever travel is a little too much. Buttons on front disc are also worn out and I need to find oversize buttons or new discs.

When the rear floating disc broke, I spoke to Brembo looking for a replacement. They said the brakes on my bike were for racing and not for a street bike. So no replacement parts were available as the next racing season, everyone switched to the newer model brakes. My best guess is they are brakes used on a Ducati although my Ducati dealer did not recognize them so who knows?

The rear disc on the bike now is from a Bimota as it was the only one I could find of the correct diameter.
 
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