“I ’ve wanted a track bike for years, and kept an eye on the press and Fast Bikes to see which was best. FB sang the Aprilia’s praises so it seemed like the logical choice. Then I watched videos of it on the pipe, so it quickly went from a logical decision to an emotional one. The barrier for me here (I live in Hong Kong), was that road bikes get massively taxed, so buying a race bike made sense! Then Aprilia announced these R-FWtrack- only versions, and I thought ‘wow’ I can get a race bike for the same money as a road machine. Just seeing one in the ‘Misano’ colours, and what the bikes came with, sealed the deal for me so I stuck an order in.
I went for the Superstock version because the SBK versions need £8,000 rebuilds, even the one that makes just 8bhp more than this.I was all set originally to go for the top 230bhp SBK version until I found that out! But with this Stock 2 iteration I was able to add more SBK parts to make it special, as I’d already spent the base spec’ SBK version cost in my mind anyway.