BEAUTY AND A BEAST
I first rode Aprilia’s ultra-techy streetfighter back in 2015 and came away thinking it was the best thing I’d ridden that year. Having just bid farewell to the 2018 version, I’m wondering if this might be the best thing I’ve ridden ever.
Sitting on the bike squinting at the dashboard and its myriad rider-aid settings, it seems childish to me now how anti all that stuff I used to be. I remember being somewhat affronted by the introduction of ABS on bikes, as if it were a judgement of my own abilities. In truth ABS was pretty rubbish when it first appeared, so maybe I had a point. However, on the Tuono, ABS is but the tip of a huge electronic iceberg and when rider aids are deployed as
