PICS: TOOTALLER GAWLER, MV, TRIUMPH, YAMAHA
MV Agusta’s financial difficulties couldn’t have come at a worse time for the iconic Italian manufacturer. Sales were up massively (by as much as two hundred per cent in some countries!), the bikes had never been better or more alluring, and to top it off the factory had just released the best road bike ever created – the new Brutale 800.
The launch of the new Euro4 compatible triple was an eye-opener alright.We always accepted MV’s metal is very sporty and rather fast. But they’d usually be let down by small things, concerns that would divert general buyers, who’d usually opt to head in other more traditionally user-friendly directions.