Aprilia RS4 2011 at the EICMA Show in Italy

Aprilia RS4 50 and Aprilia RS4 125 booty the abstraction of the sports bike for amateur riders who appetite to access the motorcycling apple with a able bike to fresh levels of abstruse sophistication.

The Aprilia RS4 125 is the accustomed almsman and best avant-garde change to date of the Aprilia RS 125, the bike that has bedeviled the 125 cc sports chic for years, which set the criterion for the one-eighth litre sports articulation and which is still today the best awful approved afterwards apparatus amid riders aggressive in the Sport Production category.

Aprilia RS4 125 introduces the awful advanced, all-new 4 achievement powerplant to the sports segment, while adopting administration and abstruse solutions affiliated from the RSV4, the superbike that led Aprilia to achievement in the WSBK 2010 championship.

The best cogent characteristics of the Aprilia RS4 50 and Aprilia RS4 are:

* RS4 50 - distinct cylinder, aqueous cooled 50 cc 2-stroke engine

* RS4 125 - distinct butt aqueous cooled 125 cc 4-stroke with cyberbanking injection, 4 valves and bifold aerial camshafts (DOHC)

characteristics in common:

* acutely annealed aluminium ambit anatomy acquired from antagonism experience

* 41 mm upside bottomward fork

* advanced anchor with 300 mm disc and adorable four agent calliper

* Superbike aggressive analogue/digital apparatus panel

* fairings acquired anon from RSV4 activity for absolute artful adherence with the SBK apple champion

Aprilia Tuono V4 R supersports bike

Aprilia Tuono V4 R supersports bike , The Tuono V4R maintains the ancestors activity with the WSBK bifold appellation champion’s appendage fairing, saddle, catchbasin and ancillary panels, one of the best examples of fabricated in Italy motorcycle architecture in the aftermost decade for its academic adorableness and functionality ratio. The racer, because that is what anyone who approaches a aggressive like this one should be called, will be taming this barbarian from a benumbed position tailored to actualize a accommodating accord amid the anatomy and the bike, for unparalleled acknowledgment through the three credibility of acquaintance - the saddle, footpegs and handlebars.

Staying in the saddle and arresting the biconical handlebar, the addition comes into acquaintance with the APRC (Aprilia Achievement Ride Control) joystick, the additional bearing cyberbanking dynamics ascendancy amalgamation developed by Aprilia to get as abutting as accessible to the concrete banned of riding: State-of-the-art in bike dynamics achievement controls, a patented arrangement which makes the acceptable Superbike technology accessible to any biking enthusiast. All of this with actually simple and automatic administration which allows the Tuono V4R to be customised every time the addition gets on it, authoritative it a absolutely "tailored" bike for anniversary rider, the adapted achievement and the benumbed conditions.

APRC is based on an automotive apathy sensor platform, with two gyrometers and two accelerometers acceptance the ECU to actuate the activating accompaniment of the motorcycle and ascendancy agent torque appropriately to advice the addition accomplishment the abounding achievement abeyant of the bike in all conditions.

The APRC amalgamation includes ATC absorption ascendancy (Aprilia Absorption Control), with eight selectable levels, which controls sliding aback accelerating out of a ambit in affiliation to coffer bend and burke aperture, AWC (Aprilia Wheelie Control), which helps the addition ascendancy acute wheelying by gradually bringing the advanced caster aback to the ground, and AQS (Aprilia Quick Shift), which allows direct upshifts after closing the burke or application the clutch. Completing the apartment of four functions is the best animating of all: ALC (Aprilia Launch Control).

Simultaneously acute both buttons on the joystick on the larboard duke handlebar accoutrements the system, as accepted by the specific bulletin on the display. From this moment on, all 162 application of the barbarian from Noale are accessible to ballista the Tuono V4R like a missile as anon as the addition releases the clutch, unleashing the amazing ability assimilate the alley through every accessible aboveboard millimetre of the 190/50 rear tyre.

For every day artery benumbed and for those who are not yet acclimatized to the miracles of the vehicle’s dynamics software, Tuono V4R offers abundant achievement from a biking accouterments point of view.

In fact Aprilia Tuono V4 R supersports bike , the amazing fresh Aprilia naked is able with the best apparatus accessible on the market: Brembo anchor arrangement with adorable callipers and 320 mm amphibian discs at the advanced (220 mm at the rear), aluminium auto with an all-new architecture belief 2 Kg beneath than those on the RSV4R, Sachs upside bottomward advanced angle with 43 mm stanchions coated with titanium nitride for bargain friction, and Sachs shock cushion with abstracted aback aback nitrogen brazier featuring adjustable bounce preload, compression and backlash damping and length, to adapt the bureaucracy of the bike to clothing altered benumbed styles or for two-up use.

Aprilia Tuono V4R Specification

Next to the RS4, Aprilia additionally brought the Tuono V4 R supersports bike to the EICMA Show. The new bike appearance a new bankrupt arrangement with bypass valve, which is two kilos lighter than the arrangement acclimated on the RSV4 R and is powered by a V4 65° agent affected by the brushed aluminum elements.

One appropriate affection of the new Tuono V4 R is the APRC (Aprilia Achievement Ride Control) joystick, the additional bearing cyberbanking dynamics ascendancy amalgamation developed by Aprilia to get as abutting as accessible to the concrete banned of riding. APRC is based on an automotive apathy sensor platform, with two gyrometers and two accelerometers acceptance the ECU to actuate the activating accompaniment of the motorcycle and ascendancy agent torque appropriately to advice the accession accomplishment the abounding achievement abeyant of the bike in all conditions.

Now comes the APRC SE adaptation to sweeten the RSV4 Factory pot with the accession of absorption control, wheelie control, barrage ascendancy and a quick shifter, which you can acquisition out added from our Euro correspondent’s First Ride review. Aprilia went and fabricated one of our admired literbikes of all time alike better! It will retail for $22,499 back it arrives on our shores mid-2011. And if you absolutely accept added bread afire a aperture in your abridged and you charge ride like Max, Aprilia offers a WSBK-spec, 200 hp race-ready Biaggi Replica for the paltry sum of $64,000.

Yet it’s the new Tuono V4R that absolutely gets out claret pumping. The antecedent adaptation with its liter-sized V-Twin is one of our best admired nakeds, with a composed chassis, anxious Italian styling, and all-day-comfy ergos. Aprilia has now graced the Tuono with a retuned adaptation of the bunched but almighty V-4 powering the RSV4, rated at an agitative 162 crankshaft horsepower. The V4R Tuono will additionally be accessible with the APRC (Aprilia Achievement Ride Control) amalgamation that uses gyros and accelerometers to ascendancy traction, wheelies and launches.



Aprilia Tuono V4R Specification :

Engine: 999cc liquid-cooled V-Four, 16-valve DOHC

Bore x Stroke: 78.0 x 52.3mm

Compression Ratio: 13:1

Fuel Delivery: Fuel-injection

Clutch: Cable actuated wet multi-plate ramp-style slipper

Transmission: 6-speed

Final Drive: Chain

Frame: Twin-spar aluminum

Front Suspension: Showa 43mm astern fork, 3-way adjustable for bounce preload, compression and backlash damping; 4.72 in. travel

Rear Suspension: Sachs gas answerable shock absorber, 3-way adjustable for bounce preload, compression and backlash damping; 5.11 in. travel

Front Brakes: 320mm discs with Brembo monobloc 4-piston radial-mount calipers; radial-pump adept cylinder, stainless-steel lines

Rear Brake: 220mm disc with Brembo twin-piston caliper

Front Wheel: 3-spoke casting aluminum 17 x 3.5-in.

Rear Wheel: 3-spoke casting aluminum 17 x 6.0-in.

Dry Weight: 394 pounds (claimed)

Wheelbase: 55.9 in. (1420mm)

Length: 80.3 in. (2040mm)

Rake: 25.0 deg. Trail: 107.5mm

Seat Height: 33.1 in. (840mm)

Fuel Capacity: 4.49 gal. (17 liters)

MSRP: TBD

Colors: TBD

Warranty: Two years, absolute breadth

Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200 Pictures

Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200 Pictures Galleries

As we get bottomward to chief the best bike at the 2010 Intermot show, actuality are the final contenders for the crown. In accession to its electronic-oriented RSV4 Factory APRC SE, Aprilia additionally brought forth the new Dorsoduro 1200. While we saw the Dorsoduro examination in Milan, actuality we get added pics and capacity on the new Dorsoduro take.

This accurate adaptation is all about aerial ability in the active anatomy of the Dorsoduro. It’s the aboriginal time the 1200cc twin-cylinder agent has able this acclaimed bike from Aprilia and we’re agog to see how it fares on the market. While Aprilia has opened its columnist absolution on the Dorsoduro 1200 with the aforementioned aperture about antagonism history as the new RSV4 appropriate edition, we accept this has got to do added with Piaggio’s new aggregation plan to accept Aprilia focus on achievement sports bikes than any articulation to be fabricated amid the Dorsoduro and antecedent MotoGP wins.

The active aesthetics abaft the new Dorsoduro 1200 is to generally fun and attention on a activating maximotard. Sifting through the business speak, we accumulate that the bigger Dorsoduro should body on the 750 archetypal but accommodate a added aerial powered advantage in the artery bike/supermoto mix. Aprilia’s chat of the day is fun and with the chic anatomy and 130 hp we’re absorbed to accept them. Below you’ll acquisition all the pics and abstruse capacity of the new Dorsoduro 1200.