New Aprilia 450cc SuperSport Spy Shots

Recent spy shots of a masked Aprilia test bike surfaced and rumours abound.
Behind the camouflage, appears to lurk the rumoured RS440, Aprilia's newest track-bred toy and probably the first example of a whole new platform.

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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Looking Under The Skin
02:15 Moto Guzzi Stelvio
02:30 A Clean Sheet Design
04:00 Cutting Edge Tech
05:30 A Commitment to Lightness
07:14 The Competition
10:10 The RS Heritage
12:00 The Coming Wars
13:00 Thoughts from the Shed

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[Graphdevigner]

What an absolutely beautiful bike! Makes me think of the RS250 from the late 90's. Great video thanks!

[georgekrpan]

As a lover of small, light bikes I find the prospect of the 440 to be tasty. In addition to all the plusses you stated will be a lower price. The 660 is great but it's double the price of a Ninja 400. My current ride is a Vitpilen 401, love it. What you said about triple digit horsepower on public roads is so true.

[Paul-]

Great vid thanks.
I totally agree with your idea of making bikes lighter and then having a chip upgrade when legal to do so. As Colin Chapman said…‘simplify and then add lightness’

[FreedomRider]

Beautiful bike ! I just came across your channel in my feed actually and I'm happy to support your efforts and those of other fellow moto content creators. I look forward to seeing and hearing more from you in the future, keep up the great work and ride safe out there.

[MalcolmStaines]

Royal Enfield have led the way with small capacity bikes with great success , so it's no wonder that other manufacture's are following . To have all these small capacity exciting bikes to choose from, at a sensible cost, can only be a winner all round, not only with new riders but with the aging biker (speaking from experience ) looking for something lighter. Brilliant video keep them coming.

[marcusgeorge]

Great video. Thank you. I’m currently considering one of the small displacement bikes mainly for track use only. As in the 90’s I would’ve completed over 1, 000 laps in race conditions around Phillip Island and one of these would be much better than any Superbike to ensure my skills remain as sharp as possible without the pressures or costs racing can bring. Love your channel as you provide such knowledge that you simply can’t get anywhere else. After 45 years of riding all types of bikes plus two wild card WSB entries I’m still learning. 👍😎🇦🇺

[rickh]

Great video. I really like your ideas on future models. Be safe everyone. Cheers

[Jones-xxgc]

I think smaller bikes will become more popular in the years to come for us mere mortals. Reminiscent of the 70's and 80's when smaller bikes where more available.

[azimuth]

I can see this being at the pricey end of the 400 twins but even so, sexy bikes the RS range. There seems to be a swing back to small capacity as it was decades ago which they never should have left.

[donaldhipple]

The ECM very likely programmable to different license requirements.

[sadwingsraging]

Wait, , , you have more than just a "Motorcycle" license?😳

Electronic de-tuned with the ability to unleash the beast once a rider is all growed up sounds pretty good.👍🏻

[uhtred]

"Nothing is new under the sun" so the saying goes. The 400cc sector was red hot in the 80s and 90s. The race rep craze was in full swing and the Japanese big four made delicious 400cc four strokes and 250cc two strokes for the home market and a few lucky overseas markets. These 400s had better specs than the 600cc supersports the main overseas markets got, and there was also special limited build SP, or Sports Production versions that came with special parts fitted that made them a better base bike to build a race machine for the very popular, local Formula 3 race series. They were mainly built to cater to the Japanese licensing laws that made riding a bike over 400cc very difficult, and when the fashion for race reps started to fade, they made some very cool "naked" or standard 400cc bikes like the ZRX400 and the GSF400. Even Ducati got in on the act with their little 350 and later 400cc F3 a smaller version of the gorgeous F1.
So now the 400cc market is once again popular, but i bet they won't make the gorgeous, jewel like 4 cylinder bikes, which is a shame as one of the best bikes i ever owned, and one i wish i had never sold was a RVF400 i bought from a JDM car importer, they had no clue what they had, and it was dripping in genuine HRC F3 kit parts. I miss that bike.

[INTERCEPTER]

In Canada where we have graduated licensing but not restricted the new ZX4 Kawasaki has a claimed 70hp. If that number is right, I would hope the Aprilia could be bumped up to more than 60hp. All that aside, I would have preferred a restricted licensing like in England, instead of the graduated licensing we ended up with! Unfortunately if you are 15 and can wheelie an MX bike, when you start riding on the street with an MT07 or larger, you find out pretty quickly when you come off, there is a world of difference!

[GTMarmot]

Interesting bike. I would expect it to be more attractive to older people though than people on an A2. Or maybe it's for new markets. Anyway, when you're in your 20s you want a big big boy bike. When you're in your 30s and older, you want to remember what it was like to live in a world which was still full of excitement, promise and new things. So, in my thinking, a scalpel on winding mountain roads is more of a natural draw for older riders who want to feel something again. Everyone remembers their first dance and nothing was ever that promising/exciting again. That's the psychology, I reckon.

[ToeKnee]

i just traded my ninja 250 in for a 1993 honda bros 400. i bloody love it!!! 30 year old with only 14k on the clock!! im so happy, i just have too learn kmh now lol as it was imported in the 90's from japan so never came in mph. everythimg on it is original including mirrors and indicators

[johnmclay]

They had to go this way (engine displacement and power/weight range) because that's where the huge Asian consumer money base resides.
Indian and Southeast Asian markets have blitzed both the European and American markets in their potential earnings and size and will soon totally dominate the types and the styles of motorbikes that we in the west are going to be offered.
Thankfully it's Aprilia that's setting the benchmark standards for this new era in motorcycle development and renewal.
I own two Aprilias and I'd love a third one.
If motorcycling is not going to be just the realm of old men then we must surely look to this as a portent to many things to come.

[noahwail]

Funny, I was thinking about a lighter bike, and later add horsepower, just as you said it.. I find it an exelent idea, I have been upsessed with lightnes lately. ;o)

[dinomalta]

Noted TVS tyres, Is it to be built in India? Cheers for the Intel and sensible input from yourself. DINO.

[Swaggerlot]

How about a direct injection supercharged two stroke? Now that would be novel.

[willyrackham]

I think this is the way bikes will be going ...the more I speak to riders at meet ups they nearly all want a small light bike that can do it all