Laverda project £1500

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Davie said:
Can you still buy spares for them ?
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I'm just about finished a Laverda 500 Alpino project and you can still get spares but as has been stated they can be expensive.
Slaters are very helpful and their delivery is good. :)
Hoping to have it up and running for shows this summer. Mind you I've been syaing that for the last 4 years!!!:D :eek: :D
 
A mirage wouldn't be that difficult to find parts for, Slaters, Ralph Allen, Laverda Paridis in Germany and Wolfgang in CAnada should be able to source almost everything needed. You will pay for parts though, the parts suppliers buy up stuff as it appears on ebay then resell it :( Some parts on Mirage will be the same as Ducati's and Morini's from a similar era.
 
As MBG and Gizmo say getting the parts is not the problem.
The real issue is whether what it costs to bring it up to your idea of an acceptable standard makes financial/hassle sense.
Whether it is a Mirage or a Jota the costs will be similar but the end value won't be if you tried to re-sell it.
Tidy Jota's are making upwards of £5k but Mirages about £3k+.
There was one for sale in the ILOC about the turn of the year from memory.
You could probably spend £2k on this assuming mechanically it is ok.
If you can check out the mechanicals and negotiate the price a fair bit then it would be a nice bike at the end.
There are a few Laverda's popping up now on fleabay and apart from Jotas not making huge money.
Can't help thinking that with classic Ducatis making big money that Laverda's, inc the Jota, are undervalued.
What looked like a very tidy Alpino just sold the other day at second time of asking on fleabay but at less than £2k.
Could do with another Laverda in the fold in the Up-North region though!;) :)
 
I wouldn't like to count what I've spent on the Alpino over the years but it has never been a resell project for me.
It is a 'Y' reg and was the first Italian bike I owned. I used to use it when I was instructing but it wasn't the most reliable.
I used to grin like a Cheshire cat when it reached 90mph downhill with a tail wind.:D
It hasn't been on the road for almost ten years but it is so near now. evrything is powdercoated, re-chromed and engine back in one piece. All I need now is a front mudguard and then I can put it back together again.:)
 
mbg said:
I wouldn't like to count what I've spent on the Alpino over the years but it has never been a resell project for me.
It is a 'Y' reg and was the first Italian bike I owned. I used to use it when I was instructing but it wasn't the most reliable.
I used to grin like a Cheshire cat when it reached 90mph downhill with a tail wind.:D
It hasn't been on the road for almost ten years but it is so near now. evrything is powdercoated, re-chromed and engine back in one piece. All I need now is a front mudguard and then I can put it back together again.:)
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Logic about £ goes out the window when you already own the bike! Quite right about not counting the money spent if it is a labour of love. All I was meaning was that for someone to take this on at £1500 plus the restoration costs it would make more sense to spend that total (or less probably) on a tidy bike. Completely different sound off the Laverda twins to the Ducatis but still fantastic! Hope to see the Alpino out and about..........soon!!:)
 
My Jota looked OK too. Still spent a fortune. Still not working right.
It's now torturing poor Stuart at DG who admitted to being an ex-Jota owner in an unguarded moment at Knockhill last year. Think the rain had got to him.
It will go though, I'm too far in to back out now.

ShedBob
 
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