Triumph and Laverda converge at Vintage Motorcycle Days

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July/August 2008
By Motorcycle Classics Staff 
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Attendees can also look forward to an ocean of orange and red at VMD. The North American Laverda Owners Club (NALOC) is this year’s featured classic club, and will hold its 2008 rally at VMD. Better yet, club chairman Bob Andren tells us that Piero Laverda, who with brother Massimo made the sound of Laverda engines ring in the ears of motorcyclists everywhere, will be on hand. And it gets better still, because Piero, along with son Giovanni, will be showing off the famous Laverda V6 endurance racer, shipping it in from Italy for its first-ever North American appearance.

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Singled out by some as a contributing factor in Laverda’s downfall thanks to the immense sums the Italian company supposedly spent on its development, the one and only V6 racer is one of the Breganze firm’s most famous machines. It will share the limelight at VMD with a 1,000cc triple factory endurance racer and a 500cc twin factory endurance racer, one of only three existing.

Laverda club members will also get to make daily parade laps of the track, plus the club plans a Saturday night banquet featuring Piero, Giovanni and Tim Parker, author of the coveted and long out of print "Green Book," the bible for Laverda owners. Editor Backus is threatening to ride his RGS to the show, so let’s get those Laverdas pointed toward Ohio and make this a real Breganze blowout. Bene!

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