Laverda SF2 resto-mod

Ah, Laverda. The great, lost name of motorcycling. KTM now has a mortgage on vibrant orange motorcycles, but in the 70s the color was synonymous with the Breganze factory in northern Italy. Few builders get the chance to work on Laverdas these days, but Takashi Iwamoto of Cascade Cafe Racer in Hawthorne, California is one of them. And he’s done an amazing job on this machine. The bike is 1975 Laverda SF2, bizarrely discovered under a pile of clothes by Takashi’s friend Hiro Ishihara. Hiro’s first idea was to transform it into a Laverda SFC, or a cafe racer with...