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The Jota was my poster bike when I was a kid. I wont be alone here for sure and hasn't someone on here actually got one?

The Italian Cafe Racer!

A couple of pics. Any more?!

Paulo who used to post as Rsvman has one

funnily enough - I spotted this in my collection only the other day while looking for photos of my Dad.



I'd love to have one.

Love this bike, for no other reason than it was featured in the first bike magazine I ever had.

I'm obviously a similar vintage to Tiepin as this was the first bike poster that went up on my wall! Still love them.

Another of those things that didn't quite happen was a colleague had an RGS, promised a go, but never quite got arranged.

Another was a ride in the Pioneer Run.

I wanted one in the mid 80s

A big hairy arsed man's bike,if ever there was one.

No doubting it's iconic place in biking history.

It'll take 20k to own one now,but they never were a cheap bike.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1303865

Oh dear...

Taipan wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 1:32 pm Oh dear...

Fairly normal styling for a mid 80s European bike

Someone on here has got one, can't remember who though

Love them

Also love the 750 SF / SFC twin

Whats his name has the 1200 Mirage. Looks a bit like a Jota... well its orange.

KungFooBob wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:03 pm Whats his name has the 1200 Mirage. Looks a bit like a Jota... well its orange.

IIRC the Jota was a 'hot' Mirage (or something like that).

The Jota was 'specced' by Slater bros (the UK importer), rather than being created within Laverda itself.

Whats his name = rodbargee

The Mirage is a 1200, the Jota a 1000, not sure on the specs of the Mirage, the Jota and Montjuich were both specced by the Slater brothers and had high comp pistons and lumpy cams, I think the later ones were imported by 3 Cross Motorcycles (Roger Winterburn I think) and the specs changed

Phil Oakey of Human League fame had a very nice Spondon framed Laverda in 1985, though he said he'd sold it when I was chatting to him in a pub in Sheffield in 1991/2

My mate has one ( along with a 900ss bevel)
The Jota seems to be nothing but trouble ....

Mr Moofo wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:53 pm My mate has one ( along with a 900ss bevel)
The Jota seems to be nothing but trouble ....

I think they always were, of course the rose tinted reports of Bike magazine didn't indicate this, but all Italian bikes of the 80s were trouble (some of the Japanese ones weren't great either)

Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:30 pm

Mr Moofo wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:53 pm My mate has one ( along with a 900ss bevel)
The Jota seems to be nothing but trouble ....

I think they always were, of course the rose tinted reports of Bike magazine didn't indicate this, but all Italian bikes of the 80s were trouble (some of the Japanese ones weren't great either)

Probably one of the reasons they went to 120 cranks, less vibration ?

A Jota, a Monjuic or a Ducati Pantah were on my list of bikes to get in the early 80s. Ended up getting a Le Mans. At the first spot I worked I had my Le Mans on of the fitters had A Ducati Darma and one of the Electricians a Laverda Mirage. The only other bloke at work with a bike had a Neval Minsk.

Montjuics too

Mate had (still has) one of them it's freekin loud & unreliable, anyone remember the front cover of bike mag with one and the rider pulling his brains out of the top of his helmet