No real reason...

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08 Specialized Langster

If it's another bike you're after, then may I suggest

Neat suggestion. I am going to mull that one over...

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08 Specialized Langster

I've got one you can have, 'tis the streetfighter C50 with the wind shield removed

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If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.

I would only be interested if it had two small headlamps... No half measures for me...

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Great answer!

Any unreal reasons? Surely you're not a brand whore, pash?

Not really, but Aprilias look so big and fat (generalising here) and have a huge can the size of a dustbin.

Basically, they have never stirred my imagination...

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For anyone wanting to see a big fat Aprilia with an oversized exhaust and no imagination stirring abilities, click here or here.

I know it's an opinion and just as valid as anyone else's but I don't see that at all. Even the vanilla bike in their range is hardly bloatware and has a tidy end-can, IMO. Their cans were large 10 years ago but... well, I don't see it.

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Good in straight lines
2001 X1 "The Tart's Handbag"
2001 FZS1000 "The Fridge"

First one I have never seen before.

Second one has an awful muffler and is a bit out of my price range (and it is a V4)



Maybe I have not seen a recent one, but there is no Aprilia dealer very near to Bristol.

Saying that, the RSV1000R doesn't look too bad - just looked at their website.

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They are both the same, and it's not a muffler, it's an exhaust. Bristol isn't that fecking far west!

I think the first one was mocked up without the exhaust, just wondering if you would notice that.

Again, it's just opinions but I think the end-can of the V4 looks quite neat, although I wouldn't want to get blow-back after it had been left in a rainstorm.


Check out the "Factory". They played with their naming convention a few years back, the RSV-R became the cooking version. The Factory gets some decent kit (better wheel, suspenders, damper etc) for not that much extra, IMO.

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2001 X1 "The Tart's Handbag"
2001 FZS1000 "The Fridge"

Then you need one of these: http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/biker ... &R=EPI-496

Has anyone mentioned a 998s ??

What's one of those biscuit boy?

The faster better version of what you mentioned, dog-face .... ( 135 BHP, Ohlins rear suspension and some other stuff ... I need to read the handbook)
Good to know about the stuff you recommend !

I do know what it is, I just thought there was another echo on this thread