Thunderous Laverda Classic Air Cooled 750 Twin Built not Bought

[@ridesrambles8903]

Rise a few smiles as you blat bye. Looks like a real labour of love and great to hear some of the story.

[@barebonesmc]

glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@darkiee69]

Both looks and sounds beautiful.

[@barebonesmc]

great bikes 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@skydive1424]

Very nice! Great classic that will last virtually forever

[@barebonesmc]

I hope so!

[@k1ckyscotland988]

"Built not Bought". I've a sticker on the back mudguard of my 1978 GL1000 that has those very words. Had the bike 20 years,bought as a rotten rancid wreck. Been on the road for the last 19 years,I love it. Confuses younger riders who've never seen a Gold Wing that's not covered in plastic. I was going to put Subaru badges on the tank,really confuse them.

[@barebonesmc]

PMSL re the Subaru badge, The early ones are great bikes 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@davidyendoll5903]

Volvos used to come with Kawasaki badges on the front bumper as standard I think !

[@uhtred7860]

Nice Job! I can appreciate the work involved as i'm halfway through a full nut and bolt rebuild of my 87 FZR1000, bought during the covid debacle as a project. It arrived as a neglected, cosmetically challenged, corroded mess, that had been down the road on both sides, pushed into a shed and forgotten. Thousands of $$ later and i'm just about to assemble the fully reconditioned engine. Its been a labour of love (and patience) as parts for these aren't as readily available as they are for the later EXUP models, as they only made them for 2 years before the completely revamped 89 EXUP came out. Eighties bikes is what floats my boat, as its a time i was young and working in the industry and the pace of development was at fever pitch, with manufactures developing and selling an eclectic range of models, (not all of them successful😏) It was a great time to be in the industry.

[@barebonesmc]

only just seen this comment mate, ive got 2 89's :-) one pretty standard the other NOT lol, but i have got lots of parts too, if you ever struggle finding anything its worth asking, good luck, be good to see it when you are done

[@uhtred7860]

@@barebonesmc The 89 EXUP is an awesome bike, I almost bought one to restore, but then the 87 popped up, Ive got a soft spot for the 1st gen as they were raced to great effect in NZ and Australia in 87/88, by the time the EXUP came along the OW01 had taken over racing duties. Ive bought parts from all over the world for my FZR but there is one last part i just cannot find, and that is a headlight fairing, it is proving very difficult to track down.

[@barebonesmc]

sorry if i wasnt clear, i do have some genesis parts too, they came as part of a parts swap 🙂 not sure how much is left but its always worth asking if you are struggling with anything

[@clarehennessey3653]

What a glorious motorcycle. It's a real credit to your workmanship and eye for detail.

[@barebonesmc]

🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@bubot17]

Lovely bike, and nice story telling

[@barebonesmc]

glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@graemegullick4383]

Nice job

[@barebonesmc]

🙂Cheers mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@jezza117]

well done mate, another classic rescued from the scrap heap..you have way, way more patience than me..she looks and sounds great ..take a bow sir.

[@barebonesmc]

thanks for your support 🙂Cheers for adding your bit mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@WRDC327]

Ya man

[@barebonesmc]

glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@davidyendoll5903]

I that the Bear there ? Hi man .

[@expandingknowledge8269]

Ride Free, Stay Strong, Instill the Passion and Love that only Motorcycling can Endure 🏁🏁

[@barebonesmc]

and you mate 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment. Ride Free 🙂

[@expandingknowledge8269]

@@barebonesmc

[@davidyendoll5903]

I fitted a new Laverda supplied stainless system with the huge balance pipe , which took six months to arrive and six hours to shoe horn together . I hated the system as the side ground clearance was lessened big style . It sounded ok . I bought the bike with a two into one system which had been put together by previous owners , possibly Merlin motorcycles at Thornbury . Hi Andy ! That system sounded superb and gave massive clearance which the bike can easily handle . The SF2 , which this one seems to be , was very very stiff and handled really well . I could use the front brakes in corners no problem . My rear brakes had worn pivots , which I never got round to sort out ....never needed rear anchors anyway ! Well a bit maybe on occasion . Loved my SF2 . I fitted SFC cams , second hand ( and way of pear shaped ! Valves kept open longer than standard ) , and SFC pistons . I had to remove the accelerator jets as the front end would lift unpredictably and wanted to save on washing my gacks . Enjoy , I am sure you will , I am jealous ! ... but fit a balance pipe or two into one and take of the side stand , the main stand is so easy to use , so you save weight and gain clearance . lol . Oh , and fit electronic ignition , you know it will be worthwhile .

[@barebonesmc]

cheers mate, Wolfgang keeps telling me it needs balance pipes too lol, we will see in time 🙂

[@karlbates7271]

Wonderful to see another Laverda on the road .. youve done a great job. My 180 Jota is back too after 22years of languish, thanks to Wolfgang, and also Greg Parrish (DAM Racing) here in Oz. Ride On!

[@barebonesmc]

Nice one mate, and cheers, i know it wont be everyones cup of tea but i built it for me not them :-) Wolfgang is a gem, and if im right Greg was the only person on the planet with any of those original round back indicators, but bringing them over here would have been stupid money and i dont like the CEV ones they used later, but theres always a solution somewhere :-)

[@floydblandston108]

Very nice. A Laverda's always been on my short list, but here in the USA they're almost non-existent. Enjoy every mile, and every minute just looking at it, for as long as you can!😊

[@barebonesmc]

I will, but it will be being ridden too, thats what they were made for 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@davidyendoll5903]

Look for American Eagle models

[@G58]

That’s rather special. YT didn’t notify me so I missed this. So here I am awake in the middle of the night again getting my vicarious bike fix from my virtual biker buddies. Really need to see this one in person. It’s a gorgeous one off. I guess my first question is “alloy spokes”? That’s a new one. Have you considered casting a pair of indicators? If you coat the ones you have in a hard wax, that might add sufficient extra material for later polishing. This is only my nocturnal theory mind you. Not sure how the best bronze forgers do it…👀 Anyway, thank you for sharing your classic orange Italian baby. A keeper for sure. Peace

[@barebonesmc]

glad you enjoyed it mate, bloody KZbin, glad you found it. Yes the spokes are alloy, ive been rebuilding it from a box of bits for years, but newly on the road, where are you? itll be out and about at times so you never know. not considered new castings to be fair, maybe in time 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@G58]

@@barebonesmc I don’t get out a lot these days because I’m caring for my mum in sprawling suburbia south of Ram City on the 514 just north of where the gay Italian lad pranced to his last battle 👀🧐😎😜 Hopefully I’ll catch you one day in the Peak District. Remind me which biker café please. Will try to remember this time. Ride safe. Peace

[@barebonesmc]

@@G58 it was always the old smithy at Monyash, but the last half dozen times ive passed the queues were stupid, and the shiny crew seem to have taken over, and at the same time deserted Grindleford Cafe, so Im more likely to pass there, still sampling alternatives too though 🙂 i tend to go away from the crowds 🙂

[@G58]

@@barebonesmc I concur. The shiny crowd are like BMW driving golfers! Not having a bike on the road (even a shiny one) is frustrating. Will look out for you next time I’m up there. Will most likely be in my SAAB 93 Cabriolet doing my best to not be mistaken for a 1990s hairdresser 👀🙈 Interestingly, it’s one of the few such cars that attracts admiring comments. A few weeks ago outside the chip shop in the square in Ashbourne I had several. It’s worth preserving on many levels, but I’m struggling to get 22 mpg!! I swear an Aston Martin V8 could almost do that. Ride safe. Peace

[@barebonesmc]

@@G58 the 93 is a looker though 🙂 of all the 4 wheelers ive owned, i had a 99 that only comes second to a tuned Alfa i had for a while (then wrote off, as all good Alfas should end lol) but the 99 was a tank. i used to take it rallying through the woods as at the time i had access to about 200 acres of thick forestry to play in, all the bodywork was double skinned and the metal so much thicker than other cars of its day, a fully sorted single carb version of the Triumph 1850 engine used in the Dolomite, and oh how well they sorted that engine. I had an 1850 Dolomite and loved it, but god it was temperamental, Saab kept all the good points and just made it work better, happy days 🙂

[@owenbruce4120]

You've done a great job mate, same colour as the one we had, love the job you did on the pipes...a pair of Contis sound awesome 👍🔥😉

[@barebonesmc]

glad you like it mate, the color is actually a smokey orange, slightly darker than it looks in some of the footage, just not so ORANGE as is usual lol 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@rickh8380]

Looks and sounds amazing. Awesome job. Cheers and ride safe.

[@barebonesmc]

🙂Cheers mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@upsidedowndog1256]

It sure is fun to get the old girls sorted out! Sounds and looks nice. I can't say I have ever seen one of those before. Patience finding parts and doing what you can with what you have is the challenge with that one!

[@barebonesmc]

cheers mate, it is 50 years old now so not so many out and about, although they have lasted remarkably wellv i would say, Based on the SFC race bike which won countless Endurance races over the years, its basically 2 thirds of a Jota lol,

[@floydblandston108]

@@barebonesmc- a review I read years ago described them as 'the last of the really hairy chested bikes', and it always seemed about right.😂

[@barebonesmc]

@@floydblandston108 lol, i think thats a pretty good description 🤣

[@davidyendoll5903]

@@floydblandston108I am just under 5 foot 5 inch and managed it no problem ; not a beginners bike mind you ! It is like a Brit bike with Honda reliability ( change to oil religiously as there is only a round cheese grater for a filter though at 1500 miles road use . Kinell , but do it , I learnt the hard way ) and Ducati handling and brakes . Nice

[@davidyendoll5903]

@@barebonesmc Same head as the SFC , different carbs I think ( flat slides on SFC ) , same gear box gears , except not in exotic metal . Yup Jota's Daddy ! Like Bonnies are to Tridents .

[@andrewdyson4255]

Great story, nice to see what you did. I would prefer a chrome exhaust but each to their own. You have certainly done a much better job than I could ever have done.

[@barebonesmc]

🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. I like the black, and it does have advantages :-) Ride Free 🙂

[@Jones-xx2gc]

A great restoration of a classic bike Iv'e never seen before. A credit to you.

[@barebonesmc]

🙂Cheers mate,thanks for watching and for the comment. Ride Free 🙂

[@grayfool]

Fantastic. I'm very envious.

[@barebonesmc]

🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@pfcokelly]

Ooo, can't wait to find my old junker and bring her back to life. It's probably the only way the lady will let me get a second bike lol.

[@barebonesmc]

spanners at the ready lol, enjoy it mate 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@bigmikeshooter]

Nice bike, greetings from Greece.

[@barebonesmc]

Welcome aboard mate, good morning Greece. enjoy the ride and cheers for the support

[@derekdingwall]

Well done ,you must have the patience of a saint👍

[@barebonesmc]

Hardly lol, many unrepeateble utterances were made along the way , im just a stubborn old bugger lol, 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@peterdoe2617]

What a great project! I know a few peoplle who've owned it once. I remember that several years ago, the ground plate for points in the ignition were out of stock. With no aftermarket parts available, this friend almost gave up on the bike. Donn't know, If and how she ever got it fixed or had to sell the bike. While you could have the plate itself machined, one large issue would have been to find a capacitor to be welded on to the plate.

[@barebonesmc]

🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. the points can be replaced with an electronic ignition module, but i managed to get new points and capacitors fine, just cross referenced old part codes, the backing plate wasnt standard as i said, but works fine, it is just a standard 180 twin plate. Ride Free 🙂

[@jimmarshall807]

Beautiful bike, lovely job getting it back n the road

[@barebonesmc]

🙂Cheers mate and thanks for the comment . Ride Free 🙂

[@benninger123]

I love this style of motorcycle its beautiful. Great job .

[@barebonesmc]

🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. It is without doubt my most challenging project yet. Ride Free 🙂

[@ataulfomendozazimbrano9890]

Todos los que tenemos una Laverda nos gusta ver que otros también la valoran.

[@barebonesmc]

Gracias mi amigo, hay imágenes de mí en mi otra Laverda aquí - kzbin.info/www/bejne/boDOlp2QhbaVg9U

[@ataulfomendozazimbrano9890]

@@barebonesmc Muy bonita también, la mía es una 1.200 jota

[@barebonesmc]

@@ataulfomendozazimbrano9890 Lindo. Presenté la Jota aquí. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHPVZYSFg711o7c

[@MatthewFelgate-r4u]

Loveley bike! Green with envy. Nothing quite like a 180 degree twin in full song, but these must take it to a new level. Great to see inside one of these. The quality of the basics is impressive (ignoring the switchgear etc). What a gem! Enjoy!

[@barebonesmc]

being fair, this is the year they swapped to nippon denso clocks and switches so they are as good as anything from the time, i think they must have just been stored badly, poss near a bright window, it was the outer plastic bits that were worse, cheers for the comment mate, enjoy your weekend

[@kdm6287]

Great job, well done.

[@barebonesmc]

Thank you very much! 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@lorditsprobingtime6668]

Awesome! Great sound, great looking and that very special feeling you get from riding something you've brought back to life after years of being in boxes, all add up to extremely satisfying riding👍. The bit that always frustrates me is trying to get that nice polished look to ALL the exposed aluminium and oh my god! There's so much total area of it and so many awkward to get into little pockets and hollows that you've just got to do thoroughly or you'll never feel happy with them. That's the trouble with bikes, they may be smaller than a car but, they're like if a car was turned inside out and you had to try and make that look shiny and pretty, EVERYTHING is exposed and so much fine fiddly stuff to wear out your elbows polishing. That will be a bike you'll have every right and reason to feel very special while riding it. Great work, it's looking gorgeous❤.

[@barebonesmc]

glad you enjoyed it mate, the central casings were left as a sand blasted finish, only the outer casings, fins and a few select bits polished, 🙂Cheers for watching and the complements. Ride Free 🙂

[@lorditsprobingtime6668]

@@barebonesmc It was truly a pleasure seeing you build it back up. I could reminisce and feel that same feeling, a mixture of "I so hope I'm not chasing my tail and every time I think I've got it right, something else, deeper in the engine goes wrong" crossed with that great feeling of satisfaction, especially that first time you hear her fire up, rough running or not, then that great feeling when you're all sorted, registered and a real road warrior back from the dead.

[@lorditsprobingtime6668]

@@barebonesmc Just a possibly, maybe, partly useful tip. I cleaned up and made shiny(ish) some old rough cast casings once while experimenting, pretty reasonably successfully using a cheap sand blaster that I could run off my compressor using corn flour. It's a bit difficult to feed it to it evenly but, it didn't damage or abrade it at all and left the cast finish looking like it had just come out of casting yet clean and fairly shiny. There's probably even better mediums or methods and this one leaves you a horrible mess but, it did bring it up surprisingly well. I wouldn't use real grit or sand as they would eat at the surface, this kept it looking how it should yet shinier. I was experimenting trying to find the best way to deal with those rough bits like cooling fins etc and there's bound to be better, easier ways but, it did work the best of the ones I tried.

[@barebonesmc]

@@lorditsprobingtime6668 cheers mate, it was a challenge lol. probably the biggest project so far in many ways. Im no master mechanic, just a bloke in his shed with a lifetimes worth of spanners and common sense (he says) to fall back on, so yes, when you finally get it sorted it is a very rewarding feeling

[@barebonesmc]

@@lorditsprobingtime6668 i guess soda blasting would be my equivalent to that. The sand run was only done very gently with a fine grade sand on main casings lol. I have a mate who is great at that bit 🙂 Steam clean first then a light sand and then soda blast, then final bits polished. fins were all just done by hand 🤣🤣🤣 ive never figured an easy way around that one🙄

[@SherKhan-b1kes]

Lucas indicators from early70‘s Bsa‘s and Triumphs look similar to the Cev units and there are cheap pattern ones out there. Great work done on your Laverda 👍🏽

[@barebonesmc]

the ones on the back yes, ive got plenty of them lol, but its the dome back ones on the front i wanted to match though, they are CEV, but a very rare one it seems, ill look, but i dont remember seeing them on any Brits of that time, same Stanley lenses, just different backs, cheers for letting me know though

[@dinomalta712]

Nice bike Mister! A TRUE Labour of LOVE. Cheers,DINO, Ps STILL missing my 750s Formula!

[@barebonesmc]

great bikes, i still miss my Zane 750, but i just didnt bend so well anymore lol 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@dinomalta712]

I Know what you mean about the bending, I also owned a TL 1000, one of the 1st generation, with the full power bonkers motor, I think I managed about an hour at a time before cramp! Cheers, DINO.@@barebonesmc

[@barebonesmc]

@@dinomalta712 the joys of aging and broken bones lol enjoy your weekend mate

[@SSV-i-c-e]

Lovely bike man love these bikes there awesome but rare here in New Zealand I’ve never seen one here.thanks for the video.hi from🇳🇿

[@barebonesmc]

Hi New Zealand. 🙂Cheers mate and thanks for watching and for the comment. Ride Free 🙂

[@bsimpson6204]

I notice the master cylinder is very early style Brembo 'halo and star' but the calipers arn't, I wonder if they are from a later machine? love the looks and the sound, what a gem, wish it was mine lol

[@barebonesmc]

lol, they are a later caliper, i have an earlier pair with the threaded caliper now but havent got around to rebuilding them yet🙂Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@henrybartlett1986]

This was a big deal bike in it’s day. Terrific!

[@barebonesmc]

🙂Cheers mate and thanks for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@donaldelder540]

Great video, I love that era of bike, be it British, Japanese, or Italian. Can I ask if the bermbo brakes were originally anodised?

[@barebonesmc]

glad you enjoyed it mate, being honest, i have 2 pairs, one looks black anodised, but no idea what they were as standard and that may differ from year to year 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@noahwail2444]

Wow, what a bike, and what a project. Haven´t seen one for decades, so very nice. Is it a 180 crank, or 360?

[@barebonesmc]

glad you enjoyed it mate, they are a 180 crank 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@tonyjourneyman1944]

Lovely, a bit of a different twin from the Suzuki GSX800S I just bought. "Triumph" passenger foot pegs had me monentarily confused :-). I restored a 1979 Honda XL 500S recently, so I have an inkling of an idea as to the issues can be, this restore would have been out of my league I think.

[@barebonesmc]

pmsl, you noticed lol, i have got some unbranded rubbers for them, but the triumph rubbers are good so i don't really want to cut them off, for now............ lol and being honest mate its the biggest challenge ive had in a long while, n took far too long, i dont think it will happen again 🙂🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@kris2435]

job well done 👍

[@barebonesmc]

thanks mate 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment. Ride Free 🙂

[@EnergyXyz]

Great bike! I've allways wonder why some makers choose to have the gear selector to the right and the rear brake vice versa. Do you have an explanation for that "mystery"? 🤔

[@barebonesmc]

British and I believe most European manufacturers traditionally used right foot gears, but the Japanese used left foot, after the Japanese flooded the market, most companies swapped over, not sure what and when Harley changed anything to be fair, who knows why except to attrat riders used to the newer left foot change on their learner bikes maybe🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@EnergyXyz]

@@barebonesmc maybe that's just my OCD, but I like the idea having the gearshifting (clutch & shift) at the left, and the braking (front & rear) on the right side. That's good OCD logic... Lol

[@barebonesmc]

@@EnergyXyz perfectly reasonable, and i think thats why they stick to it today, i was a bit concerned swapping from one to the other but it came back to me easy enough. i guess growing up my BSA's were right side but obviously the LC and CB500 were left foot change, so i got used to both then

[@alfred-vz8ti]

good looking bike, but i hope it will do better than 110.

[@barebonesmc]

Im sure it will mate, I didnt want to do a ful bore dyno run untill it has done a few miles and ive fine tuned it, 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂

[@patchthesinclair5896]

I'm told those Laverdas just loved to corner, do you find it so?

[@barebonesmc]

new rubber so its been steady so far but it tracks well, and with suspension all refurbished i dont see why not🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂

[@davidyendoll5903]

OH yes ! They do corner and when you think heck I have cooked it this time you will find you can go even further over and she will look after you ..... on a race track only mind officer ! And you can brake in the bends to help change direction.... you do need to know what you are doing and practice but I tell no lie .

[@davidyendoll5903]

Did I say I like these bikes ? Lol