Tuono Means Thunder! - Motorcycle.com
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We managed to grab a quick spin upon Aprilia's tasty new Tuono R for the weekend, which of course does not constitute an actual Road Test (not here at MO anyway).
A weekend, though, was more than enough to conclude that our man Yossef was not just whistling Dixie in his earlier dispatch from the Old World. This is about the most exciting bike we've ridden since, well, last month's pretty exciting but not nearly so powerful Buell Lightning. (There's a whole climactic theme happening lately.) We also had an S4 Monster in the hangar and couldn't help comparing.
The less spectacular Tuono's Boge rear shock and 43mm Showa fork might not deliver quite the ride the of the Ohlins stuff on the R (which is fantastic over slabby concrete and everywhere else), but for $5,300 fewer dollars we'd be willing to make the sacrifice, personally. And Showa and Boge have not exactly been twiddling their thumbs in recent years either.
Watch Sean decode the human genome while riding.
Decode, Sean, decode.I don't have enough self-restraint to live with a bike like the Tuono R on a daily basis. I didn't even have the restraint to come home when my nose started running and my hands went numb from an unseasonably cold Saturday afternoon/evening.
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