A burly custom Laverda 1000 Jota leads our selection this week, with a rare collection of vintage British and European bikes sitting at the opposite end of the list. Wedged between them is a pair of wild Suzukis; a custom 90s Suzuki GSX-R750 SRAD, and the new 25th anniversary Hayabusa.
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The early 1970s certainly were a golden era of motorcycling. Who can deny that the Kawasaki Z1 or H2, the original SOHC CB750 and the Ducati 750 Super Sport of the era aren’t icons? But the class of 1973 birthed some amazing motorcycles that have become classics. From race bikes to dirt bikes, something was…
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Every Laverda that Jean-Louis Olive lays his hands on gets the star treatment. Most of his projects are restorations, but this 1978 1200 Jota America was a full-blown custom job. And it turned out so good, it starred in the pages of Practical Sportbikes magazine in the UK. Jean-Louis is more than a little obsessed…
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If there’s one company that symbolizes the style of the new wave custom scene, it’s the Wrenchmonkees. Their motorcycles are raw, simple and pure—the legendary Danish design aesthetic applied to two wheels, and roughed up a little. An early ’70s Laverda 750 given the Wrenchmonkees treatment sounds like a marriage made in heaven. And the…
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Ah, Laverda. The great, lost name of motorcycling. KTM now has a mortgage on vibrant orange motorcycles, but in the 70s the…
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One of the great tragedies of modern motorcycling is the death of the Laverda name. The brand was bought by Aprilia at…
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The Laverda Jota sticks in my mind as the ultimate seventies superbike: it’s the two-wheeled equivalent of the iconic Lamborghini Muira. This…
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This delicately beautiful cafe racer uses a Laverda trellis frame and a late-production, modified Commando 850 engine. It was built by French…
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