The Aprilia is unchanged for 2022, and in many ways that’s not a bad thing. For years the Tuono was the standard all others were compared to until recently, when it just began to start showing its age a little bit, and newer bikes that benefit from the latest thinking and technology came along. Even then, you’d still count the Tuono as one of the best of the bunch.
The very first thing I wrote for some time ago was a look at the origins of the supernaked bike, and while it’s true that Ducati was playing round with the concept of an exciting and powerful naked with the Monster in the 1990s, it was Aprilia that simply took the bodywork off its RSV superbike and added high handlebars first. In the process of doing so, it created the entire supernaked class, and for that reason the Tuono always gets a bonus point sneaked into its score as a mark of respect for the effect it had on the overall market. The bare alloy underslung swingarm also makes a strong case for a bonus point purely for being so achingly gorgeous. If there is a production bike with a more beautiful swingarm out there, I have yet
