MCN APRILIA TUONO 660 (2021 - on) Review

[KungFooBob]

My mate raced a 2000 RSV1000 for about 10 years, it never missed a beat until he hit Brands pit wall with it, the 1000s are fine, the same certainly can't be said for the 450 and 550 V twins.

Buying an Aprillia is like dealing with Dirty Harry, are you feeling lucky?

The 1000 was a Rotax lump tho', not a in house job.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Honda fixed it with the VFR, but it cost them.

Back in the early 00's the VFR was still a loss leader, they lost money on everyone they made.

Fixed the reputation tho'

Another mate had an early VFR that he really abused, at around 50,000 miles the rear shock mount broke, he thought he'd try it on and complained to Honda UK, they gave him a new frame, and paid for all his shitty old parts to be swapped over onto the new frame.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

My mate raced a 2000 RSV1000 for about 10 years, it never missed a beat until he hit Brands pit wall with it, the 1000s are fine, the same certainly can't be said for the 450 and 550 V twins.

Buying an Aprillia is like dealing with Dirty Harry, are you feeling lucky?

The 1000 was a Rotax lump tho', not a in house job.

That explains that, maybe Aprillia should get Rotax to build their engines

[mangocrazy]

As far as I'm aware Aprilia did hold their corporate hand up and replaced the motors on all the dodgy first batch. OK, so it doesn't greatly inspire confidence, but has there been any kind of continuation of the problem the first batch suffered or are we getting all wound up over a problem that has actually been fixed? It does rather sound as if that once you've fucked up (but fixed the problem), you have a target on your back forever more.

[KungFooBob]

A bloke I used to work with I'm friends with on Friendface, he chopped a CBR650R in for The RS with Via-Moto in Sheffield when they launched.

He got the new engine on recall, but didn't have any issue with the old one. He posts pics pretty much every weekend of him out and about on it, as far as I'm aware without any issues.