Aprilia are seven times world supermoto champions, and the Dorsoduro has been a success story since its launch in 750 format back in 2008. It’s Aprilia’s third best-selling big bike in the UK and has a huge following in Europe, especially in Italy.
And for 2012 Aprilia wanted to add some performance, quicken up the handling, and yet at the same time make the most powerful Supermoto on the market safer. So how have they done it?
Arguably the most impressive part of the new 130bhp Dorsoduro is now the mighty V-twin which we will get back to, but the three-way traction control which comes as standard.
There are three different modes to choose from. Mode three is for slippery wet conditions, the most intrusive. Mode two for normal road riding and the least intrusive is mode one for track use.
The system monitors wheel speed from the ABS sensors, which incidentally also comes as standard and reacts accordingly.
It’s not the highly acclaimed system as used on Aprilia’s RSV4, slightly more basic but impressive on a bike costing less than £10,000.
The impressive V-twin engine now produces an extra 5bhp, pushing peak power to 130bhp, that’s V-twin superbike power form only 5-7 years ago, in a Supermoto, who would have thought it?
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