I have a 600SL that I practically ride every weekend. I’ve owned it since 1989. It’s been up and down both costs. I’ve even been on the track with it. My favorite bike! You will take note that the Cagiva uses parts from the TL Pantah ie, smaller brakes and the frame has the bracket and forward pegs (the 650SS Ally had the SL Pantah hardware), ironically I have found out that they all share the same size carbs with the same size jetting internally, mine took forever to make run right and one of those things was to have a good carburetor guy go over it.
Yes they're all great track bikes really. In fact most of the ones I see have been chopped up and used as track bikes. I like to keep mine as they came from the factory, more or less.
Yes they were something else back when they came out. Bevel people were very cautious, but racers loved them right away! Just very different power characteristics, both fantastic.
I have both machines. While both are very nice bikes, they are very, very different. I am a Laverda guy, so I'd never let my Laverdas go, and I'm a big fan of the Alazzurra too. My advice is: if you don't have to sell a bike, don't sell it. Keep it for the future version(s) of yourself.
😎I had the fully faired Allazzurra, stripped it back to race trim, put F1 barrels on it and raced it. Wonder now what happened to it, 30+ years later................
I've got the lowers for the Alazzurra but I don't have all the fairing brackets - which has stopped me from mounting them. If you have any source for those parts, I'd be very appreciative!
I've owned both a 650 Alazzurra and a 650 Pantah. The Pantah had a cable clutch the Alazzurra a hydraulic one. There were many differences between the 650 Pantah and the 600 but apart from the bodywork and some fittings the 650 Pantah and Alazzurra had a lot in common. The600 was basicly a bored 500 where as the 650 had a longer stroke. I would like another now but to expensive.
It really depends on which country - the UK seems to pay the highest prices for any vintage bike, with the US a close second. In Canada the market is very small and a bike won't get nearly what it will elsewhere. A Pantah 600 in this sort of condition would sell for perhaps $6,000 CAD here.
