Aprilia’s FV2 concept, looking to the future

Aprilia’s FV2 concept bike, which has been making the expo rounds, is here to showcase three things: first and foremost, the company’s home-cooked 1200cc, 90-degree v-twin engine, which we’ll probably be seeing in the RSV and Tuono in the next couple of years.

The dash integrates a nav system and a bunch of downloadable performance telemetry data, which you can send to a phone or PC, and it’s set up so you can easily upload new engine mappings from the Web in a similar way. The final purpose of the FV2 concept is to show us the direction Aprilia wants to take its styling in and to that I’d say both groundbreaking and state-of-the-art!

New CBR1000RR for 2008

The new CBR1000RR 2008 has been released. Honda’s flagship sportbike finally made the jump to full-fledged superbike status with the introduction of the CBR1000RR in 2004 and two short years later the platform was tweaked in effort to keep pace with the three other major Japanese big-bores nipping at the double-R’s rear tire.

Charged with winning Honda racing DNA, the ’Blade has been consistently tempered in the white-hot fires of racing, from World Superbike to the world-famous Suzuka 8- Hour Endurance Race where it has dominated the top ten winning positions every year since its arrival.