The Riviera Tourer
THE SPORTS TOURER IS A MOTORCYCLE made for munching miles upon miles, yet attempting to bring out your inner MotoGP racer when the twisties arrive. Today, you have a host of such motorcycles and in fairly varied avatars too. However, if you want to fit in with those folk on the streets of Monte Carlo or Saint-Tropez, you have to go Italian. Not just any Italian either, you need fascino, which is Italian for glamorous or in the motorcycle world known as Meccanica Verghera (MV) Agusta.
MV Agusta have launched their tourer model in India recently and given it a name that rolls off the tongue followed by a smug smile: the MV Agusta Turismo Veloce 800. Fancy names apart, does the Turismo Veloce live up to the mile-munching, canyon-carving tag slapped
