What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?

CLEMTOG said:
most people when being allowed a ride on someone else's bike do not "run it hard" and understandably so, my own SF3 would take off and really rev, remembering that its a 750 four stroke twin, when getting higher than (maybe) 7,000rpm, my own SF1 would not do that, and would drop off at not much more, initially I thought the SF3 was under geared a tiny bit, but no it was 19/40, then the opportunity arose to ride another SF3, and I asked, "can I red line it" and was grated permission, the same applied, and the last was not very long ago at all, and yes it revved out, I was, and still am convinced of a difference, over SF1 and 2
sadly the nearest bike shop to me now don't import or sell bikes, only helmets, whenever a Laverda came onto their stock, I was usually told and helped a bit with the selling of same, all sorts, some 125's, 200's odd Chotts/2TR's and 750 twins but never a triple.
CLEM
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My SF1 was smooth and revved cleanly to 8000, Clem. With a half fairing on my bike a friend on his Rickman Kwaka clocked 9000rpm on his bike (he said = 133mph) with me sitting behind him - 8000rpm in top gear on the SF. He was impressed. The cam timing for the 5/1 is peakier than the 7/1.

Absolutely agree about how different they all are - and have heard the same from several who have ridden several. The 'slower' ones seemed to also vibrate noticeably more, regardless of how well tuned they were.
 
Do you remember the story in "The Black Museum" of the 120 ° Jota that "lost" the middle connecting rod in Breganze?

After the unintentional dismantling of the engine on the lifting platform happened in a workshop, we decided that this workshop should also repair the engine again.
To get the bike back on the road, we grabbed two weeks ago a van, loaded the Eagle and lots of cash and drove over the Alps to Breganze.
When we wanted to drive off we noticed, that the Jota interchangeable license plate was unfortunately mounted on a BMW over 500 km away. My friend Photoshop immediately solved the problem (see picture). ;)

Oro did a really good job, repaired the crankshaft of the Jota, found a perfect crankcase, stamped the correct numbers, welded and planned the cylinder, changed valves and in the middle connecting rod and piston,...
Ricardo and Matthias agreed on a fair price and thus solved an unpleasant situation together well. We tested the Jota about 250 km at the Monte Grappa and up to the Altopiano, the sunny weather was perfect with 18° Celsius. Everything was ok, the bike runs and sounds perfect.

We bought many spare-parts for friends and for 580 EUR wine in the cantina for the next Laverda-Meeting in 2022.

We met Augusto Brettoni who was in the same hotel in San Giorgio di Perlena. Brettoni laughed when I showed him the pictures from 2007 when I visited him in his shop with the Electronica. Back then I was looking for and found the first owner of that bike. Not only have I had significantly less hair since then. On the next evening we realized that Brettoni was celebrating 50 years of marriage. So we organized a bottle of good „Fränkischer Zwetschgenschnaps“ (43% Alc) and declared this as „Benzina“ for the next 30 years of marriage. He's apparently not only a good racing driver but also a good husband. (y)

We met some Laverda friends and had good conversations and even better food. It‘s always very familiar, a little bit like coming home.
Of course, you often come across former Laverda employees or things/parts (pic)/information that emerge from the past.

By chance we met the well-known Laverdisti Jörg Strehler from Switzerland who was on the way to a mostrochambio in Padua.

After 4 days we went back to Germany with the risen Jota on bord. Life can be so beautiful……

Thomas aus LAU

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Dellortoman said:
I was thinking the exact opposite.
White is for BMW's and police motorcycles. It's not a colour I'd choose for a real motorcycle.
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lack of historic knowledge, my friend... Before the dutch importer influenced Laverda with a bigger deal (and a constant calling into them, almost night and day), Laverda racebikes where - white! The only reason - according to Piero Laverda - why they turned to orange was because ALL Racebikes at that time (or the majority) were white and they had a hard time identifying their bikes when they approached the finish line. Why was that important - well - you know they held those boards showing the ranking and times out of the peddock. To early, and they informed the competition. to late, and they missed to inform their riders. So - they saw a need for a change so they could identify them better. Yellow, orange or red was in discussion. Orange it was at the end for the above mentioned reasons... ;) That's at least the story Piero told several times when holding a presentation.
 
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