2007 Aprilia RXV's from Raptorsandrockets

From the 2007 launch of the Aprilia RXV 450 and 550 in the UK.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Aprilia
• RXV
• Offroad
• dirtbikes
• 450
• 550

[dorz400]

If you think you are so tough on your KX500 then why aren't you out there winning world enduros? I'd say it was a fair effort for Aprilia, a road bike manufacturer, to manufacture a dirt bike such as the RXV. Give them a break mate, first year production... and the KX500 is way old now, look at the bikes that are up there on the podium, 200-300cc dingers and 250-550cc 4strokes which are bloody good bikes!

[bigbeese]

Way to haul ass fellas... Did I hear you get into second gear? YeeHaw!!!

[raredesign]

@Supernumerary I would totally jump at the chance to ride a fourstroke that is comparable to my 02 kx500. I streeted it and it is simply a pain. The RXV just sounds sick!

[crackerstolemybike]

aprilias are sexelent bikes and always have been

[TheIronKnight21]

oh and i have a step up seat and thats it

[TheIronKnight21]

i have one of these and it is an amazing machine. i race motocross with it and all i have done is the suspension. this thing eats all the others alive! this thing is wicked and it definitely is not maitenance hungry. you dont have to do near as much motor work as you do on any other bike. buy one and you will never go back to anything else.

[DR1ZERO]

@stu460 I would give them the benefit of doubt, a lot of people love them and they seem to be a pretty good bike, im kinda leaned int buying one myself. Not to mention SXV and RSV4 which are fuking awesome bikes...

[DR1ZERO]

@PapaGDirector I kinda noticed your an Aprilia fan :) what pipe do you hve on yours? Post some videos of it?

[PapaGDirector]

When I give mine some gas it sounds In-Cred-Ible... like all V twins on full song, they sound like the thunder at light speed. Mine sounded a "little" strangled when standard, trying to get a SEVENTY bhp bike down to 94 decibels for FIM regs is tricky as hell. Comparing it to lethal old CR500 on strait-thoughts is stupid, the standard pipes on most hi output bikes these days sound tinny. As soon as I put my Arrows on; now it sounds like what it is a F111 jet-fighter on afterburners.

[PapaGDirector]

Ride one of these for 60 seconds and you will just laugh when you try anything else. They have 70 bhp and it just comes and comes and comes in a way that you can ride to hell and back.

[stu460]

It seems aprilla just had to do something different,i mean a v twin configuration dirt bike that sounds like a lawn mower,what has the world come to,each to their own i guess..

[cr125rguy]

i like the defender!