What model and year is my 750

CLEMTOG said:
is it late registered then? as a 74? maybe imported as a two year old.
actually quite hard to get DVLA to ever admit they have failed or made an error, so probably not worth trying to correct, but you can try if you like.
CLEM
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You are not wrong there Clem. I have just successfully got my lemans 1 guzzi classed as historic after a bit of a battle. The log book incorrectly had manufactured date as 1989. I provided a dating letter from the dating section of the guzzi owners club uk with photos of correct engine / frame numbers etc all dating it at 1978. I had even spoken to them on the phone and explained every date each version of the lemans was produced to. They still said I had provided insufficient evidence and said they could not change my number plate also. I explained I did not want it changed as it was already a ‘S’ plate that coincided with its correct year of manufacture. Still they had not made a mistake with the 1989 dating of course. They eventually accepted the correct dating after I provided a copy of the ‘Glass guide’ pages relating to the guzzi manufacture dates. Other than that they wanted a headed letter from moto guzzi uk or Piaggio stating the manufacture date year and month (even though they would not provide month 🤷‍♂️). After all that spanning approx 7 months of letter, E mail and verbal tennis they have now relented.
 
Rosssaab said:
I bought a laverda 750, believed to be a 1974 750F

I think it may be earlier can anyone tell me?

Frame is 109??
Engine matches with 750* 109??

I left the last two numbers off for seci
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Wasn’t that in the auction at Ledbury? Thought about a punt myself. Think I have seen it for sale previously in a couple of dealers, I think it was in Pembrokeshire classics and also we sell classic bikes at one time. Not 100% sure if a previous owner was not far from me near Carmarthen? Looked a nice bike what I seen of it.
 
but it would actually be possible to fork out for a stock 750 and get an SFC because in the early days of the SFC's, in Holland a few had their numbers changed for road 750's due to race homologation rules which the SFC did not have,
I wonder what happened to those SFC's, into stock 750 clones?
CLEM
 
helicopterjim said:
1972 SF(0) - Bosch headlight, Lucas switches

Jim
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What do you mean by Lucas switches, Jim. I have only seen the ´72 with those semi-open chromed tin type switches made by whom? Whereas the SF1 Lucas switches were those weird big aluminium blade type that were used on Brit bikes at the time. Many bikes have updated from both of those type of switch.
 
There you go Jim, you have one of the ultra rare wickedly expensive transition models. A mechanic mate crashed a Triumph Trident he was testing that got stuck at full throttle on the Amals and he feverishly tried all those buttons while holding on, hoping for the kill switch, and in the end had he to brake, never said how the motor had fared from it but he was pretty beaten up.
 
helicopterjim said:
My SF(0) has the Lucas switches.

Jim

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Why would the factory fit 2 ignition switches, with the SF(0) having the Bosch head light? :oops:

Lucas switch gear arrived with the 1972 SF1, see "la diva" page 45; "New switches and levers by British company Lucas replaced the old Bosch and Tommaselli items."

piet
 
sfcpiet said:
Why would the factory fit 2 ignition switches, with the SF(0) having the Bosch head light? :oops:

Lucas switch gear arrived with the 1972 SF1, see "la diva" page 45; "New switches and levers by British company Lucas replaced the old Bosch and Tommaselli items."

piet
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Because that's the way they built it at the factory. They installed Lucas switchgear on the SF(0)'s that required turn indicators ....... initially German bikes in late 1971. See Falloon's Twins and Triples Bible page 38/39.

Jim
 
sfcpiet said:
Lucas switch gear arrived with the 1972 SF1, see "la diva" page 45; "New switches and levers by British company Lucas replaced the old Bosch and Tommaselli items."

piet
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Sorry to correct you, Piet, but my 9934 SF(0) had also Lucas switches. It did have Bosch headlight with nail-type ignition switch but - if I remember correctly - a hole in the holding plate of the ND instruments (but no additional ignition switch in there...). The bike was purchased from first owner, even with the original papers. The switches defenitely haven't been changed by him, I reconfirmed that. Bike was completely original
 
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