All my Laverdas are very different bikes with, I feel, different purposes for different reasons. Some years ago I was at Donington race track for a Laverda weekend on my 1981 Jota. When the time came to leave I mentioned I would be going down the back roads to Hinckley and then onto the main roads back to Warwickshire. A gentleman from Cheltenham asked whether he could follow me on his RGS1000 Corsa and off we went.
We had a great little ride and got as far as the M69. I pulled onto the motorway and up to what was a comfortable speed for me on the Jota - not a slow bike by any means. The gent on the RGS just rolled on past me as if I was standing still. He clearly knew where he was going, so I thought I would just follow. However my neck muscles had not developed to Sylvester Stallone levels, and he just disappeared. I realised that if I was going to do some longer journeys then I would need a bike that would be easier to tour on, one with a fairing maybe that would leave my neck muscles as they were. The hunt began for an RGS.
In 1982 Laverda introduced
