Bike Garage - Laverda Sf2 Custom

TEN years agone this SF2 was inward deplorable shape.
Its brake calipers were seized to rusty rotors. Its frame had been hammered opened upward to stand upward for a tractor battery. And a hole it 1 piston had relegated it to a basement for who knows how long earlier it was dragged out to a swap run into inward Ohio.

Peter Boggia of Moto Borgotaro saw hope inward the pile of parts. He bought it too hauled the projection home, where it incubated as
an thought for a long earlier he touched it again. And hence slowly, over the course of educational activity of the concluding 3 years, the SF2 was brought dorsum to its onetime glory, too hence some.

The engine was torn downwards to the block too rebuilt alongside the guts of its high-performance older sibling inward the Laverda lineup: The SFC—Super Freni for ‘super braking’ too Competizione, for its racetrack DNA.

H5N1 lightened too balanced SFC crank too surgery pistons too cams replaced the originals, too Carillo connecting rods consummate the package. The cylinder heads were modified to suit a 38-millimeter Dell’Orto carburetor—throatier than fifty-fifty what the SFC came equipped with. Everything other major engine element was replaced every bit well: timing chain, clutch, cables—as good every bit every concluding nut too bolt.

The bike’s battered frame tubes were brazed too reformed. The brake rotors were milled too drilled, too the brake calipers too primary cylinder were rebuilt too plumbed alongside novel stainless steel lines.

H5N1 custom caprine animal leather spot suggests a hint of luxury, too re-laced wheels alongside heavy-duty Borrani-replica rims too stainless steel spokes offering rock-solid confidence inward corners.

The stock airbox was replaced alongside velocity stacks too the master copy SF side panels were modified to mimic the lines of the frame, piece consciously keeping the master copy aesthetic intact.

The master copy dash too flimsy switchgear were eliminated inward favor of a to a greater extent than minimal cockpit pattern built some an offset Italian Veglia tachometer, which appears to float inward forepart of the headlight from the rider’s perspective.

“This is a clean, minimal version of an SF2. You accept to await closely to see that its been modified, precisely the lines too the overall appearance evoke the same nub await too experience of the original.”

Controls accept been boiled downwards to a new-old-stock vintage C.E.V. headlight switch on the left, too a modest stainless steel starter push clit built remove into the handlebar the right, alongside all wires cleanly hidden from view. Two lonely LED’s built into the headlight crunch serve every bit neutral too oil-pressure indicators, too the whole unproblematic organization is tied together past times a custom wiring harness. And at that spot is no key, instead a wireless RFID-enabled cardinal line a fast 1 on passed inward forepart of a sensor hidden on the wheel toggles ignition on too off.

H5N1 custom two-into-one exhaust helps this hyper aspirated hotrod breath long too strong, too an intentionally muted matte dark pigment task both highlights the richly colorful enamel Laverda badge, too reinforces the bike’s muscular natural lines.

And it’s fast. Faster than whatever other Laverda 750 to always come upward through Moto Borgotaro. And for the lucky client who commissioned the build, worth every infinitesimal of the two-year wait.