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US version so standard bores as opposed to the chromed bores the UK got (with a little more power from the motor) from the 1975 'M' model....great if the bores are in good nick (they last very well as the rings & piston are supposed to be the part that wears). Lovely looking bikes, but as you say always in the 750s shadow.

Il cruscotto porta strumento lucido è brutto,il collettore di scarico così arroventato è sintomo di carburazione magra , le scritte sui cassettini portatrezzi son posticce ,

excellent bike and excellent sound sir

Really nice machine. Just a shame they didn't make more of 'em, I'm sure they would have sold 'em all.

leider veraltete Motorentechnik. Alles noch mit Ketten!

R 69 S: la migliore motocicletta da turismo di ogni tempo. Tuttora insuperata sia per tecnica, sia per stile. Dico: la migliore, perché la Vincent è la Brough Superior non raggiunsero la maturità. La BMW di Monaco cessò la produzione di motociclette dopo aver prodotto questo modello

Lovely bike, I recently bought its older brother-mine has the square barrel generator engine-starts first kick every time.

Beautiful bike better looking than a 60s Norton or a A65 Beeza, as far as your opinion on build quality they were no different to any other British bike of that era and a damn sight more reliable.

I bought the last one Harris sold to the public..Also in red....It's an unburstable engine and I tuned mine to around 50BHP...With that sort of power and the light weight and good handling it was a match for any other single then in production and better than many....

I had an r80, my best road bike, by far. they'gotten grossly fat since then, maybe to appeal to the harley market.. looking back, they probably had it right with the r69s.

Logo was FBC Francis Barnett of Coventry (where it was made).

I bought an SF3 new and it remains my favorite bike. I've owned various Jap bikes, Moto Morini and Moto Guzzies but the Laverda beats them hands down.

I owned a 1965 and a 1968 R69s. The motor on yours does not look like an S motor. Oh, and I also owned a very rare R69US.

Nice looking bike, very unusual

Forks are Paioli

GORGEOUS motorbike. I add a small observation. I can't stand mirrors attached to the outside edge of the grips. And I love the English accent.

I had one R25 and one R67 but the R69 is King

I like the look of this more than the new goldie

68 model not 69. Front brake.

Going by the front brake cable routing its a 68 model mate not a 69. Cheers Rog

SR500 Wow!

Loved it Thanks ! I had an MSS in 60s , just bought one last month , MSS with electric starter, alloy rims , 12volt electrics , twin leading front brake .

This is absolutely gorgeous 😮

I considered one along with a Honda VT500, XBR500 and Yamaha SRX600 in 1987 but ended up buying an F2 Gauloises blue YPVS 350 because I was 18 years old and all my mates had fairly fast bikes. Looking back I think that the 350 was the wise choice but I missed out on not getting the Matchless. If my mate's had not had bikes I'd have probably bought one.

I love Triumph Bonnevilles, especially that year range he is talking about, but he has a point about some of their odd poor quality details, the one l laugh about is how sometimes they would have one foot peg ahead of the other!

I remember looking at these bikes in a shopfront in Southampton back in late 90’s with my late father . We didn’t realise then the motor was a Yamaha.

The transparent mobile phone holder is a clever piece of future-proofing!

Very interesting, not heard of these bikes before.

I've owned 14 kawasaki triples in my time, never had a centre cylinder seize, Elvis isn't on the moon either. 😂😂

They are about 50lb lighter than a Jota ! Superb bike though. I recall the original test in Bike magazine where the guy almost crashed it due to the not so SF brakes ;)

I love the classic look, but I think they should have punched it out to 650CC and made the fins much larger to approximate the look of the old Gold Star.

I don’t mind the clocks. I’ve got similar ones on my bike. They suit the look and if you get the originals from the states they aren’t that cheap either. I think it looks great. Can’t go wrong with that engine. How much do they go for?

Think I'd prefer the newer one.

Always liked the look of these. I've never seen one though.

Great-looking Machine , I haven't seen one in-the-flesh and they probably never made it to NZ . I sold my SR500 2-years ago , I've regretted-it ever-since , it was 'properly' Cafe'd ,Imola-seat, clip-ons,rear-sets etc 565cc, stroked steel-crank, forged-rod and piston, worked-head etc 40mm-flatslide , heavy-flywheel 11:1 compression . The only person who could start-it apart from me , rode a manx-Norton . It was a beast , running the same wheels as yours and very-fast . My mates T140 couldn't touch it , selling it was one of the stupider-things I've ever done . Dave nz

Just pushed a 68 out of a actual farm barn, where it had sat since 1980, even in the sad shape its in, its still a very cool motorcycle,

Eccelsa

love it, i would buy one

Love it, would go well with my 350 RE Classic.

Guzzi-emotion....❤❤!

I've always thought the BSA's were better bikes. Not as pretty but built more reliably. Just my opinion. I have owned both.

Much nicer than the current Rotax engined effort . . .

the bike looks stunning

Had a 500 Regal GS myself with alloy tank but spoilt by no Electric starter. In retrospect I shouldn't have sold it.

had the alpino s 1983, great memories of laverda

Rudge factory had to stop production due to ww2 they tried to carry on after the war, but so much of their machinery and tooling had been lost to the war effort they were taken over by EMI and effectively shut down, one of the great British motorcycle marques .

No NO they did not go bankrupt. They had full order books. The family closed as the younger generation eanted to list on the syock exchange and go yo a production line

Any chance you could go for a ride on your bikes and film it?

I have a vintage BMW RS69 watch that will match to your motorcycle

What a LOVELY tribute to Bill and his motorcycle. Thank you for doing this! Well done!