Which wouldn't be a bad price at all. I paid nearly $9K for my new RS250 back in 2002. This thing is 10x as sophisticated.
Meh, Aprilia will screw it up somehow. Not import it, forget to order spares, forget to submit the paperwork to get it legal for the roads, forget to submit the paperwork to MA. They can't not f@ck this.
~$13K would be more palatable, if it came like the prototype bike, with polished frame, red engine, CF, etc.
I think i may buy one just to clap dat beyotch out and make all you...gotta have a red engine and polished frame efffers...mad.
Dan, you're in Baltimore. All you know is stretched swing arm stupid bikes and stolen dirty bikes and quads wheeling down the street in groups.
Type in your actual location, their dealer network is far and away better than years past. Not to mention, Piaggio doesn’t care much about selling to Joe Blow street guy anyway as long as they meet their minimum sales quotas to the enthusiasts who actually know what an Aprilia is.
I was pretty hyped up about these when first announced. Still a super cool bike, but doesn’t line up with the kind of racing I want to do any more. But man Aprilia knows how to make a killer bike for the track. I’ve had 5 different track bikes over the years now and the RSV4 is the standard I weigh the others against. Not just motor either, but the chassis feel and the feedback. I have a feeling these RS660s are going to kick ass. Now if they would just get off their ass and make a proper ULW bike again, and not that 3/4 scale RS 250 SP they teamed up with Ohvale on. Internet rumors say they are cooking up something sub-400 cc’s but I could guess what market they aren’t targeting with that.
Wife was sick of waiting for the 660 so we ended up picking this up yesterday. 2020 KTM 890R duke. We are an Aprilia family but we are sick of waiting.
I just hope they don't use the same orange case sealant they used on the SXV 5.5. My arse still hurts from that one.