Aprilia’s winning entry into the super-naked / streetfighter sweepstakes was the 2003 RSV Tuono, and many updates and editions later, the 2008 Tuono ( thunder to some ) 1000R Factory was more than an unfaired sportbike with raised handlebars. With its own frame design and bodywork, the Tuono makes excellent use of the Rotax 60-degree…
While they weren’t huge sellers when new, the Aprilia RSV Mille represents one of the best bargains in the sportbike world right now, sort of a “thinking-man’s Italian V-twin.” Which is a much more flattering thing to say about a bike than, “Wow, that thing is pretty odd-looking.” Although, as I’ve said before, these things…
The Aprilia Tuono is bike with a style only an engineer or a racer could love, someone who truly appreciates what something does, rather than how it looks. I’d like to call it “form-following-function,” but Aprilia always manages to include plenty of random styling bits that seem to do neither, so I won’t. But it…
The first-generation Aprilia RSV Mille is a pug-ugly bike. There, I said it. The styling is bulbous and overwrought, with weird, gimmicky details and bits that don’t really hang together. Look, owners and fans can spare me the outraged comments: I really like these, and I’d take one over almost any Japanese sportbike you could…
Super Singles of the 1980’s week continues with this machine. It may look at first blush like another ratty little 80’s graphics-festooned track day special that might have been ridden back in the day by Vanilla Ice with no helmet “so his hair can blow.” But this Wood-Rotax SJ676 is truly something special: one of…
I know, I know… Another Bimota with hardly any miles. But this one is a bit different as it houses a Rotax single cylinder motor usually seen in the BMW F650 variants. It’s also very light and more of a momentum machine than an all out brute like we usually think of with Bimota’s. Finally,…
Originally posted in May, this ex-Steve Crevier Aprilia/Rotax racer is back. The opening ask continues to be set at $10k. There were a few takers last round, but the bike never met reserve. All links updated. MI Wake up, Walter Mitty – your transportation has arrived. This fantastic looking racer is claimed to be an…
E=MC2: Two 1988 EMC 250’s With Race History UK RSBFS readers, here is your chance to shine. Other than the basic EMC history Mike featured in a previous post, I’m having a heck of a time digging up any solid info on this pair bikes. I know we have some readers based in…