bike. Offering more oomph and comfort than a Ducati 916, even if the package wasn’t as good looking, Aprilia said it was being restrained with the first Mille. It had a weird three headlight face, a huge dustbin silencer and sometimes bizarre colour

’s ears and fail to be waterproof, it’d be more sensible to buy some aftermarket cases.So why choose the £6499 Aprilia over cheaper offerings such as the Suzuki Gladius and Kawasaki ER-6f? To be different of course. The Ducati Monster 696 is another

the look and added to the spec list, but it never had the visual pizzazz of the 916.But then what has? Instead the Mille has matured into a practical alternative to a Ducati. An everyman's exotica, if you will. And with buyer confidence in Aprilia currently

. While at the exhaust end of the bike, Aprilia has decided to make this actually look like a V-twin and return to twin upswept exhausts, which in my mind take me back to the old Ducati 851/888 and which are a darn sight more attractive than both Aprilia’s

-looking tool will love it to bits.Read more: http://www.visordown.com/road-tests/twos-company---07-ktm-950sm-v-09-aprilia-dorsoduro-and-ducati-hypermotard/10826-5.html#ixzz0xc3wmDLK daydream anonymous: Mwahahahaheeeeeeeeee! Strengths: height, pick your line

Aprilia makes Europe's perennially best selling sports 125 in the gorgeous little RS, and has outsold Ducati's V-twin superbike by some four to one at the other end of the scale with its fab RSV Mille, the big numbers middle ground has been serviced from

is the Ducati 1098R of the supermoto world. When it entered the supermoto scene in 2006, rather than follow the traditional route of a big single cylinder machine Aprilia built a unique (in moto) terms 549cc V-twin. A controversial move, but one that has

top-heavy feeling and tends to flop into corners, which is a fairly typical complaint of the old-style RSV-Rs, and the clutch is a bit heavy.The Aprilia Falco has been around since 1999. To build a Falco you simply take the excellent 60-degree vee