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Used Review: Aprilia RSV Mille & Mille R
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/04/2008 13:50:45
With looks and performance akin to a kick in the pods, Aprilia's Mille proved that not every Italian sportsbike had to be a blood-red, 90¡ V-twin from Bologna.
Three and-a-half years after announcing its V-twin superbike and Aprilia's Mille still hadn't arrived.People said the 60° layout, with it's power-sapping twin balancer shafts, was the problem. They said the shafts were proving to be too heavy
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King of the Twins - Aprilia RSV Mille
By Ben Miller on 19/10/2010 14:55:29
In 1998 Aprilia launched the fast and affordable RSV Mille. Now the V-twin has handed over its flagship status to the new RSV4, so we celebrate a decade of the UK’s favourite V-twin sportsbike
Click to read: Aprilia RSV Mille owners reviews, Aprilia RSV Mille specs and to see the Aprilia RSV Mille image gallery.There aren’t many things capable of dragging me out of bed at 6.30am, but a low-mileage 2002 RSV-R is one of them. On hand
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Living with a 2002 Aprilia RSV Mille R
By Bertie Simmonds on 12/12/2002 11:48:54
Did Bertie get on with the RSV Mille R, read on for his longterm verdict...
June 2002On your right is the Aprilia RSV Mille R. Bertie Simmonds not pictured. And why wasn't I? Well, I just couldn't do it...Sticking my ugly mug in the picture alongside such a thing of great beauty would have been tantamount to Bernard Manning
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The Mille Family - RSV & Tuono track test
By Jon Urry on 16/09/2010 16:50:29
With more inbreeding than a small Welsh village Aprilia's Mille engine comes in many guises. We took five of the best to Donington Park to put 'em through their paces
place was something of a minor miracle to start with. Mille Rs aren't exactly two-a-penny, the Tuono is selling out faster than Aprilia can get them into the shops, only 45 Edwards reps will make it to the UK, when we did the test only one Tuono Racing
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First Ride: Aprilla RSV-R Mille Factory review
By Bertie Simmonds on 14/09/2010 14:30:43
The Mille R is dead. It's replacement, the Mille Factory, has moved Bert to proclaim the machine to be the best Italian V-twin sportsbike on the market
Click to read: Aprilla RSV-R Mille Factory owners reviews, Aprilla RSV-R Mille Factory specs and to see the Aprilla RSV-R Mille Factory image gallery.Hug the kerb through the long downhill fourth-gear left and you'll come on to the heat haze
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The Aprilia Racing Specials: RS250, RSV Mille and RS3 Cube
By Visordown on 12/04/2010 09:37:23
From the dominant RS250, to the V-twin Mille and the beastly Cube. Visordown details three bikes that define Aprila's racing pedigree
RS250 - Grand Prix Racer, 1996Black and red, Chesterfield and Biaggi, wins and tantrums…smells like Aprilia spiritThey say in racing success has a momentum all its own, breeding as it does the confidence required to carry on winning. In the early 1990s Aprilia was all about confi...
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First Ride: 2002-03 Aprilia RSV-R Mille
By Warren Pole on 29/03/2008 19:29:06
What on earth could Aprilia do to improve their already-ace Mille-R? Not an enormous amount as I discovered at the launch of the 2003 bike in Italy.
into the bargain, but behind the dry ice and bright lights we all knew the bike in front of us was a gentle evolution of the species and no more.For the 2003 Mille-R there will be no new geometry or frame alterations, no clever motor gizmos, no vast new gobs
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First Ride: 2006 Aprilia RSV1000 Mille review
By Nob Hoyles on 09/06/2004 00:26:13
Aprilia is back on track thanks to Piaggio, with refreshed versions of their top-selling Mille
Since its introduction in 1998, the Mille has always been a good track bike, overshadowed perhaps by the success of Ducati in competitive racing but, to their credit has consistently remained one step ahead of the Bolognese firm in terms of outright
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Italian Exotica - Aprilia RSV-R Mille, Benelli Tornado & Ducati 999
By Jon Urry on 08/12/2003 15:14:26
When it comes to style few can match the Italians. But is Ducati's 999, Benelli's Tornado and Aprilia's RSV-R's beauty only skin deep?
How many times have you heard the expression 'beauty is only skin deep'? It usually happens just after your missus catches you ogling one of the brolly dollies in their spray-on lycra suits who wander around the NEC show. Alright, it may very well be true, beauty could only be sk...
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Used Test: Mille vs 748 vs Fireblade vs GSX-R750
By Jon Urry on 27/04/2008 19:39:50
With a £5000 budget we delve into the second-hand market to test four of the best used bargains around.
The sportsbike market is a battleground between manufacturers all trying to prise the cash from your hands. Every year the one-upmanship takes on new heights as every new model tries to better the current market leader by grabbing the headlines with a huge power figure, new piece...
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