Why does the Barber Museum list a 1973 Jota?

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drdezmo

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I was looking at a list of the Laverda's in the collection.  It lists a 1973 Jota.

www.barbermuseum.org

Wasn't 1973 the first year for the 3C?  The first Jota was maybe 1975/1976?

Mike

 
Mike, considering that most of the current world's population was not even dreamed of when the last Breganze triple rolled off the line, it's not surprising that somebody in Alabama made a mistake. I used to get the comment at bike nights "I know a lot about motorcycles but I've never heard of Laverda" (along with "Who's that made by?"). And even people who'd heard of them had usually never seen one.

Ken
 
One of the spots we would occasionally meet up for Laverda Club rides is the 7/11 Petrol Station close to the start of the most rode bike road in Sydney. I usually arrive early and its usually crowded with young blokes riding modern Sports Bike. Nobody bats an eye at my 3C. They have zero curiosity and zero interest in anything that isn't less than a year old. I was at one of the cafes on that same road once and there was an alloyed bodied Ford GT there, same effect. I see anything out of the ordinary and it piques my curiosity.
 
That's funny Vince, I'm the opposite, when ever I turn up at a gathering of bikes I have zero curiosity and zero interest in anything younger than 30 years old!!! :D
 
motoddrob said:
That's funny Vince, I'm the opposite, when ever I turn up at a gathering of bikes I have zero curiosity and zero interest in anything younger than 30 years old!!! :D
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Nothing new about that, Vince. Try playing your fave music to young people - and vice versa! They would look at you and your bike and see something akin to an old grey haired bloke on a 1920 Brough (I made that up - they probably didn't exist then  :D)
 
It's interesting to park up at a well frequented motorcycle venue and observe other riders. The Yellow Peril gets zero interest from the young punters on their sports bikes and of course the Harley riders refuse to acknowledge anything that doesn't have HD plastered all over it.
Us motorcyclists have become very tribal.
 
Legs said:
It's interesting to park up at a well frequented motorcycle venue and observe other riders. The Yellow Peril gets zero interest from the young punters on their sports bikes and of course the Harley riders refuse to acknowledge anything that doesn't have HD plastered all over it.
Us motorcyclists have become very tribal.
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Yes youth certainly have the blinkers on these days..... have you tried to approach them Terry, you maybe surprised. Usually one or two within the group that show an interest  ;)

Happy Easter mate
 
The first time the Sydney Club did Tassie there was a SS 100 Brough and a 1930s Indian Scout on the ferry and I don't mean on trailers. Both were doing an Island lap, and both got a full-blown look from me. I suppose ignorance is bliss to the great unwashed. There loss.
 
Agreed, years ago when I was in the NSW club, we would go the old road and stop at the cafe (guess some things never change). Used to wander around clocking the bikes and slyly checking out the tyre wear to see who was serious and who was pretending.
One day a young bloke turned up on a Black Shadow, his tyres were worn to the edges: instant respect!
 
drdezmo said:
You'd think a world class museum could get the model right.

Makes you wonder what else is mislabeled.

Mike
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Absolutely agree. It annoys me when journals don't bother doing research before publishing, but a museum that claims to be the worlds best should really have it right. I reckon ILOC could notify them that they may have bought a 3C that was misrepresented. I wonder what they paid.
Here in the arctic the average age of motorcyclists is pretty high and plenty of riders seem to know about Laverdas. Quite often have someone having a few words "you don't see many of these about".
 
At our local bike nights the three things people normally say  if they come close to the Jota  are
1. I had one of these in the 70s/80s
2. I wish I had never sold it
3. I had a poster on my wall of one of these

I was staggered some time ago when a guy with an 848 Ducati said he had never heard of a Laverda
 
It always amuses me that the ?official? Laverda brand website (a.k.a. Aprilia/Piaggio) uses a photo of a Mike Waugh/Montydons replica F500 rather than a photo of the genuine article.  ::)
 
"I was staggered some time ago when a guy with an 848 Ducati said he had never heard of a Laverda"
Most people when they hear I ride a classic Italian sports bike assume it is Ducati.
 
that is not the only Laverda cock up in the Barber museum, if I recall correctly a 1200 Anniversarry is plaqued up as being a TS. and its not even a complete Anni, In fact there are not many Laverda's there but none of them are particularly good or well represented.

Were they not after an ex Cor Dees V6?

They are known to have bought big boxes of drawings and paperwork for Breganze Laverda's from the Zane factory, but they don't respond when quizzed about that.
CLEM
 
Some of you may be aware that I recently bought a relatively modern Benelli triple (2008 Tre-K 1130). I had a few technical foibles to sort so I joined the Benelli forum to get some advice.
The difference between the Benelli forum and this Laverda forum is quite noticeable. Most of the guys on the Benelli forum are young blokes with their modern bikes. From some of the daft things they post, I'd say a lot of them are millennial snowflakes. Thankfully there are a few sensible guys on there with excellent technical knowledge. But it kind of illustrates that old and modern bikes appeal to different age demographics.

There's a noticeable difference in attitude between the two groups too. Old farts like Laverda owners are always tinkering and fettling with their bikes, trying to improve things. While most of the 'millennials' don't have a clue about maintenance, and aren't interested in the technical side of motorcycling. I guess they think of their bikes as an appliance like a washing machine. Buy it, use it, if it fucks up then you take it to someone to get it fixed. When it looks a bit dated or scruffy, you get a nice new one.
 
A lot of modern stuff shits itself from electronic faults and if you haven't got the patented program for your laptop or the $200 minimum fee "just to analyse the fault" starting price, you are fucked.
What has this to do with the Barber museum not knowing what the bikes they display actually are?
 
, info is  round about right in this museum  ,, and whos gonna know , some old laverda rivit counter , may be , , 😂😂😂
 
I disagree with that John, wrong is wrong, a museum is custodian of history and it just HAS TO BE CORRECT, it will become a reference further down the road.
CLEM
 
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