“APRILIA WOULD RATHER BURN IN HELL THAN OFFER ITS CUSTOMERS A BIKE THAT WASN’T THE CUTTING EDGE OF HANDLING AND LOADED WITH TOPEND SUSPENSION AND BRAKES.”
YOU KNOW HOW PARALLEL twins are now the hot chick in the room, right? Yamaha kicked it all off some years back with the MT-07, and within a few years everyone was busy shoving their versions of the 270-degree-cranked mid-sized upright-twin onto the market – the most recent being Honda’s CB750 Hornet.
The whole point, I assume, was to offer a new generation of riders milder-mannered bikes…um, presumably because they spook easy when confronted with 1000cc of weaponised motorcycle. Or something.
So, out they came. Light,
