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Have you ever envisioned riding a top AMA Motocross team’s pumped-up and highly-tuned race bike on road rubber? Well now you can. And legally in all 50 U.S. states! Say hello to the Aprilia  SXV 5.5. The $9499 SXV 5.5 is the Italian motorcycle manufacturer’s top-shelf Supermoto racer cloaked in full street-legal attire and seemingly designed to break every single traffic law in existence. Don’t say we didn’t warn you…
 
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THE UNIQUE AND DISTINCTIVE DORSODURO 750 APPLIES APRILIA’S VAST RACING EXPERIENCE TO JUST ONE MISSION: TO OFFER PURE RIDING ENJOYMENT. 92 HP AND EXCLUSIVE TRI-MAP RIDE-BY-WIRE TECHNOLOGY MEAN THAT THIS LIGHTWEIGHT AND POWERFUL MOTORCYCLE CAN SATISFY EVEN THE MOST EXPERT RIDERS IN SEARCH OF A STATE-OF-THE-ART MOTORCYCLE. NOW THE DORSODURO 750 IS AVAILABLE WITH ABS TOO!
APRILIA DORSODURO 750

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Aprilia’s RS125 is one European exotic you can buy today. But there’s a catch: The little two-stroke’s blue exhaust haze restricts U.S. usage to the racetrack. Fair enough-that’s where this race replica belongs. Beneath the lively colors of that Jorge Lorenzo-replica bodywork is a race-proven 125cc Rotax single, liquid-cooled to keep cylinder temperature consistent. Crankcase induction favors top-end power that’s perfect for the track. There’s no premixing required, the automatic system metering lubrication precisely to keep the engine internals happy.

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It’s Monday morning on a bright June day in the Italian Dolomites, and if there’s a better place to be riding a motorcycle, then I’m not aware of it. The air is crisp, the mountain views stunning, and the road is twisty, smooth and almost deserted.
The automatic-transmission Mana GT I’m riding is doing a fine job of living up to its surroundings. The Grand Touring version of the more suburban Mana, the GT comes equipped with a half-fairing, readying it for rides that take you far beyond the city limits. The GT’s new fairing does a fine job of deflecting the chilly mountain air off my chest, but just in case the weather takes a turn for the worse, I’ve stashed my waterproof jacket in one of the spacious accessory saddlebags ($913.40). Arcing through the fantastic curves of these mountain roads, the new Mana feels roomy, comfortable and well equipped-ready to climb mountain passes all the way to Switzerland and beyond.

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Aprilia Makes Its Long-Anticipated Return To The Literbike Wars With The Incredible RSV4. Despite the current economic implosion, these are very good times to be sportbike riders. In the space of three months, we’ve been presented with two radically different alternatives to the sportbike status quo. First came the MotoGP-inspired crossplane-crank Yamaha R1. Now, hot in its tire tracks, comes the totally unique Aprilia RSV4, as fine a piece of clean sheet engineering as we’ve seen yet in the literbike class, with its ultra-compact 65-degree V4 powerplant. The fact that these two bikes proved so effective straight out of the box at the highest level, flanking the reigning world champion Ducati desmo V-twin—a third different option in superbike engineering—on the Qatar rostrum in the second race of the ’09 World Superbike season, shows that each company did its sums right.

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