2 years Ownership Review of 2018 Aprilia RSV4 1000. Costs, maintenance, reliability, parts supply

Описание: If you are thinking of getting an RSV4 because everyone goes nuts about this bike from winning most of the 1000cc track battles on youtube and the reviews from the press, to its intoxicating noise and just stunning good looks. Here is my perspective from my experience of owning one. Do consider this is more of a race bike than a street machine. It's extremely compromised and focused to tare up a track, from its lack of low-end engine tractability, tall gearing internal gearbox, tall external final drive, extremely tall seat height, and it's stiff chassis. Aprilia has a horrible dealer network and requires special tools and experience working on them to avoid costly damage. Luckily the Aprilia Community has www.af1racing.com here in the US to support the passionate owners. In my opinion this the closest experience off the showroom floor of owning and riding a race bike on the street. Being a race bike you have to deal with its corks including the cost of entry. Also oddly when I park at bike meets most people have no clue what it is or have not seen one they don't know where it's from. The question I get a lot is how many CCs is it. People are always surprised when I tell them it's a V4. For the sake of being transparent, I get more compliments from mature older gentlemen then from the ladies. The bottom line I have has 0 issues with this bike aside from consumable parts like tires and pads that you will deal with every motorcycle. Try to get a test ride, before you buy one, you need to use a lot of core strength to hang on to the bike, the seat is very high and that puts a lot of pressure on your arms also having a 34 inseam is required to almost flat foot the bike. Please feel free to leave a comment I reply to all of them. Thanks for checking out my channel, open to hearing ideas for videos to produce, I'm having a lot of fun engaging with the youtube community!