Is Aprilia going to join the party?

[young1]

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/2011/...-bike-planned/

[Taz]

Is there a party?? Where?? When?? Oh that's right fletchers next weekend

Another big fat heavy road bike with adventure styling maybe.

[That looks like fun]

Speaking of partys and Mr Young, What have you KTM owners been up too . Woke up this morning and my KB World is Orange

[young1]

Speaking of partys and Mr Young, What have you KTM owners been up too . Woke up this morning and my KB World is Orange

:-) ORANGE!! Yep faster and lighter and cooler and manlier and gruntier and sexier and ....

[Gremlin]

The pic link inside the link says KTM 990 SMT to me...

[warewolf]

Shame all the manufacturers (you know who you are!) are hell-bent on pushing cc's up. How about some weight loss!!! In a couple of years they'll be 1500cc and 300kg probably with a widescreen so you can replay any bits you missed.

[GPS MAN]

I see the same thing...where will it end? 2000cc, 6 cylinder, 400 kg's with hydraulic lift jacks

These MfG's are really missing the boat or was that bike

[Padmei]

Yep gotta agree with yas on that. Are they responding to the market or creating it.

[dino3310]

Speaking of partys and Mr Young, What have you KTM owners been up too . Woke up this morning and my KB World is Orange

fook i reckon, the green zone disapered a couple weeks ago. almost need my sunnys gettin sore eyes

[Crim]

Yep gotta agree with yas on that. Are they responding to the market or creating it.

+1 - I am going to keep the KLR till they come out with a 800 - 1200 cc adventure bike with > 30 litre tank that can take two + luggage easily on long road trips and also cover real gnarly stuff and can be lifted, by one, over the Black Forest Station Gate if they change the combination (was getting worried, Mrs Jatz when it wouldn't open) reckon about 29 kgs wet would do it

or is it the bottle (or two) of cab sav that I am imbibing to try and sleep through the night down here in tremor central talking?

[Eddieb]

+1 - I am going to keep the KLR till they come out with a 800 - 1200 cc adventure bike with > 30 litre tank that can take two + luggage easily on long road trips and also cover real gnarly stuff and can be lifted, by one, over the Black Forest Station Gate if they change the combination (was getting worried, Mrs Jatz when it wouldn't open) reckon about 29 kgs wet would do it

or is it the bottle (or two) of cab sav that I am imbibing to try and sleep through the night down here in tremor central talking?

Take that KLR for a spin round the block then you won't notice the other vibrations.

[Hitcher]

The obvious Aprilia model for a 1200cc 135hp donk is the Shiver. I can't believe that they put this donk in the no range Dorsoduro.

[Gremlin]

The obvious Aprilia model for a 1200cc 135hp donk is the Shiver. I can't believe that they put this donk in the no range Dorsoduro.

Others have done mid range motards... they are sooooo limp wristed aye? You definitely need 1.2L in a motard

I like my BMW, although 260+kg fully fueled, then add luggage, she is a bit of a handful in most places. Even at 6'3, if I have parked her on the centre stand facing uphill, I face a real battle getting her off again. Once moving, she handles her weight extremely well.

[avgas]

We need more middle-heavy weight adventure bikes rather than boats.

600-850's

Not fricken 1200's
Only old, semi-dead people, or people who have dried up careers and feel like doing crap tv series buy those. So they hardly see adventure....

[young1]

We need more middle-heavy weight adventure bikes rather than boats.

600-850's

Not fricken 1200's
Only old, semi-dead people, or people who have dried up careers and feel like doing crap tv series buy those. So they hardly see adventure....

Interesting comments re bikes and weight. Here are some thoughts of mine;

• Aren't "us" riders an aging group, where sport bikes are no longer practical, who want something they can sit upright on behind a screen and do long distances?
• What constitutes an adventure ride is different for all of us, for some of you it will be a single track through a forest, others a gravel road around the back of the Naki, while others it will be a trans Europe type ride on sealed back roads.
• In New Zealand what we need for an adventure bike maybe different from what the other countries want, is a manufacturer really going to cater just for us?
• Do some people like the "image" of riding an adventure bike but will only use it for riding to the local coffee shop, but always knowing that they could ride around the world on it (bit like having an R1 and being able to tell people it does 280km/hr but never going over 100km/hr). How many large 4WDs are sold in NZ that never go off the seal, but the owners like it that if they chose to (and if they could find how to put it in 4WD) they could bash their way through the bush?

So a heavy weight adventure tourer does have a place as does a DRZ400 with panniers. Different bikes for different folks.

I would love to see a stripped down adventure bike brought out by a manufacturer, with the essentials only and not the sparkly bits.

I am surprised that Ducati have never done a true adventure type bike, they have suitable engines and do have a history of looking outside the square (eg Monster etc). Will they be the one to bring to the market what we would like?

So what I saying (got a bit lost there!) is that there is a place for heavy adventrue bikes.