In the custom world, Simone Conti marches to the beat of a different drum. He’s not into retro throwbacks, old school vibes or stealthy upgrades. He builds fast, aggressive-looking machines that look like they’ve just rolled out of a NASA design center. His new build is based around the motor from an Aprilia SXV550, and…
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Remember the Starck-designed Aprilia Moto 6.5? Many were so traumatized by its existence, they’ve struck it from memory. The British website Visordown was particularly brutal in its appraisal: “Aprilia commissioned French avant-garde designer of the ’90s, Philippe Starck, to design a motorcycle. What they got was a crime against motorcycling.”
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If you’re looking for a track day weapon, there’s a plethora of sportbikes that’ll fit the bill—straight off the showroom floor. But with such a saturated market, it takes something truly exotic to go fast and turn heads. South African Gareth Evans knows this all too well; his track bike isn’t a brand spanking new…
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Not sure quite what you’re looking at here? Neither were we when this brute caught our attention in the magazine Performance Bikes. So we dug a little deeper. Yes, it says ‘Aprilia‘ on the tin, but it’s not really an Aprilia. It just happens to be powered by a heavily reworked 998cc v-twin, taken from…
Read more »Most café racers are built by stripping down a stock bike and “adding lightness”. This one, however, was built from the ground…
Read more »Yesterday I was looking again at some pictures of the Brammo Enertia electric bike. It felt like I’d seen this motorcycle before,…
Read more »Most road tests of the automatic Aprilia Mana 850 are very positive, but some writers have questioned the styling of the standard…
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