How many proper Italians on this site?
 

...and by proper I mean Aprilia's. :cheers:

i wish! id love to add an RSV of either the two or four cylinder variety to the stable in the next year or two. and im dying for the next season of wsbk to start so i can watch biaggi pants everyone with it.

I guess the V4's have already sold out this year! I have yet to even see one.

have they? i wasnt even aware they had come up with pricing yet. its def a sick bitch though

:werd: WSBK is gonna be great next year!

American.

With an Austrian soul. Immigrant?

Nope...Milwaukee lump under the XB's.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/IMG_1175.jpg

Proper #45 (hopefully I've got an attachment this time)

I had a Tuono - it was the best street bike I ever owned...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2372/...c7cdd456_o.jpg

...until I upgraded from an Austrian engine to a complete Austrian bike. :rockout:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3065/...3157f172_b.jpg

Love that Super Duke.

With Ducati American owned, Mv Agusta American owned, Bennnili and Vespa Chinese owned and Aprilla Austrian powered is there a proper Italian bike left?

Good point.

Aprilia's not Austrian-powered anymore! I'm pretty sure they're 100% eye-talian now.

Where did you come up w/ the idea that Ducati is American owned?

Harley Davidson stock...

Yep! :zowned:

You must be thinking of MV. Besides, what really matters is where HQ is - in the current global economy, shareholders tend to invest around the world. H-D doesn't make MV an American motorcycle company any more than Vanguard buying huge positions in Honda Motor Co. makes them an American Co.

new in house v4 is a BEAST :drool:

Correct. Ducati used to be American owned (Texas Pacific Group), but this is no longer the case.

Speaking of the Bologna product, the proper Italian. :)

http://www.farson.com/hms/hmsbrainardmeadow800.jpg

Love that bike.

:iagree:

Yeah, an appeal of bikes like the Hyper is the different take they have on what a sporting ride can be. An attraction of the Buell as well imo.

I guess I was wrong so here is my little beast from the boot

It took a little bit of time for me to get into the styling of the 999/749. But I think they look fantastic.

Oh man....The 999. My favorite Ducati of all time.

I hear ya. They are just so different that most everything else out there.

This is a proper Italian. Elephant on the fuel door and all.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...t/_DSC0015.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...HPIM1295-1.jpg

Proper Italian here. Currently down to just my RSV-R factory, but will soon be adding another Tuono Factory to the stable to replace the one I destroyed in October.

The Ape Man cometh.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...n/IMG_0061.jpg

Whooooooooooooooooooooooo! Love em.

She's an older girl but I absolutely love my bike. :idk: something about the "nakedness" makes me :drool:

agree!

my/our Duc (it was his, then mine, now it's "ours")
my (long gone) Guzzi
my Morini

Morini is releasing all sorts of new bikes. They might even make a return to the US market.

I love my Monster...
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_52HjR1YTfuE/SS...40/Monster.jpg


But I think I would sell my soul for one of these...
http://www.still428.com/sumo/images/1.jpg

Monsters are really growing on me... especially the older ones... There's a guy in my neighborhood who has one... I've never seen him ride it... only seen him once actually (little asian guy on a Duc... I thought it was sorta ironic)... Anyway, I see that bike sitting in a parking space most of the time... covered at least 3/4 of the time... and sometimes it's not there... :idk: Looks good though.

I wasn't all that impressed with the one I rode, It really needed more power. That's not to say it does or doesn't compare to like bikes in power, just that on the roads I rode it on, it needed more power. iirc I rode a 450, so a 550 could be better.

I have an 02 aprilia futura, I am at work now so i cant put up any pics :(

Tom

There's a red Monster with Termi's near my work...I've never seen it moving...just sitting.

This is not mine...just one I've ridden a few times that belongs to another member here.

We were getting ready to head out. I was getting it warmed up for the wife as she was getting geared up.

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b8...D550/ry%3D400/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b8...D550/ry%3D400/

Saw this but not sure what to think.

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b8...D550/ry%3D400/

I'm not a fan of RSD stuff.

ok I am now at home so heres a few

There's a Roland Sands-modified Tuono too that the stunta dude Britton rides now and then. Not bad of a custom job on the Tuono (it's still functional unlike that poor Duckie), but the color sucks. Italian bikes shouldn't be wearing paint jobs that look like American hotrods.

http://www.2wtmag.com/mag/full_artic...Britton&st=new

Used to have a 2nd gen RSVR and liked it, but I sold it because I didn't like the shape of the fuel tank (the lip was too high), and it needed a complete suspension re-spring and revalve that I wasn't willing to pay for. It also had electrical/starting issues, and got only 30-32 MPG.

I think you're the first person I've heard complain about the stock RSVR suspension. What was the problem? Was it an abused bike, or are you really fast?

Here's a proper Italian job. AF1 Racing was kind enough to pull mine out of the line-up for a nice photo.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...S125Photo2.jpg

:drool: where do you live again? im more or less convinced that if i snagged one cash i could bs' it through the dmv. or re register as a homebuilt. baddest little fucker ever, just wish it was a 250

*edit, oh yeah california. they probably send a kommisar to your house to make sure it never touches the street there eh?

Don't ask, don't tell. And it isn't going to sport a Cali license plate...:whistle:

haha my lips are sealed. ironically, 90% of the titled grey market two strokes i find for sale are california titled. i really hate to think what kinda financial hoops that takes

I'm pretty light so the springs were too stiff for my weight, it did not absorb anything, yet at the same time the forks had too much brake dive (felt like they were low on oil), they seemed to have too much stiction as well, did not feel good no matter what settings I tried, and the shock felt like it had lost all of its damping due to heat exposure from the exhaust, which several other people on the Aprilia board have complained about too. At the time I also had an R6 and I liked it better so I sold the Aprilia.

I've thought my springs were to stiff for me as well, but wasn't so sure I wanted to alter the way the bike handled.

Until I cranked it up getting on the highway, and hit an expansion bump hard on the gas at ~90, At which point I realized just how good the suspension on the bike really was, and knew I just didn't ride it hard enough for the stock springs.....

Mine was not the Factory model, so it didn't have Ohlins, OZ, etc. If I was to buy another it'd be an 06-07 because they got most of the bugs out by then.

That's a completely different model. I frequent the Apriliaforum and still haven't seen the threads of people complaining about the stock suspension on first gen Milles.

My baby. :D

I didn't own a 1st gen, I owned an 04.

:drool:

ahhh, got it. :zowned: