Aprilia RS125...?

[Rick T.]

So I was at a local shop the other day and was suprised to find an Aprilia RS125 on their floor. The 2-stroker, street-legal everywhere else but here in the US, was going for a bit over $5K msrp. Cool bike... but would you buy a $5K, 125cc 2-stroke that you couldn't ride on the street and would be considered small at most tracks?

I just don't understand who Aprilia's target market is for this bike here in the USA...

Would you want one?

I have a phone pic somewhere, bit it was exactly like this one...

 

[MrCrash]

I'd do a Honda RS125 instead - bigger grins for fewer dollars

 

[jrace]

I just don't understand who Aprilia's target market is for this bike here in the USA...

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-jim

 

[maxandgrinch]

I like small displacement bikes and Aprilia stuff. The RS125 is the most popular Aprilia streetbike in the UK. I'll buy a Honda RS when I find the right one, but $11,995 for a 2004 Spec RS125 (2008 Production) is a little more than I want to have tied up in some garage art.

Tons of parts/mods/goodies available. Only about 200 will come to the US. My wife wouldn't let me get a real sportbike? Elsewhere in the US they're making them street legal - until Aprilia gets spanked by EPA/DOT. It's cute and has lots of stickers that make it go faster. Ringading-dingding, riiiinnngading..... Beanoil smoke turns me on. Changing the sprockets help defy physics. Nobody else has one?

More fun to ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow?

And as suggested on another forum - you can fix it with a rock and a swiss army knife.

 

[Rick T.]

Elsewhere in the US they're making them street legal...

Who do you have to kill or blow to get one of these street-legalized in California? I had an Aprilia RS250 w/c was my track bitch for a couple of years... though I've seen many registered and operating on the streets.

The RS125 would be pretty cool to ride into Cannery Row on in July...

Found the pic:

 

[HiggyB]

... and would be considered small at most tracks?

Don't discount the fun of "small bikes" at the track.

But at that rate I'd spend my money on a GP 250 instead of the Aprilia (despite that 'prillers sexiness, rawr!) as the fun to dollar ratio is so much higher. Oh wait, I already have a pair of 250s for the track!

 

[That Guy]

That bike is damb sexy. I would rock it in a heart beat. They are maketing it to those who know what a killer bike is not the posers at *$.

 

[Mechanikrazy]

Saw one person with it at Sears in Oct. It's pretty damn nifty and I don't think he had a problem with it being small on the track. If I had money for a dedicated track bike, it would be high on the list.

 

[DaineseDan]

You'd be awfully damned suprised what that little Rotax 2-smoker can do once de-restricted. I weighed a bit more than I do now (245) when at Scuderia, and that bike pulled me around well enough to keep a big ol' grin on my face.

 

[Mille Racer 69]

They are very easy to legalize.
1-wire up turn signals,
2-wire up head lights,
3-put mirrors on
= legal

And any rider with enough balls could smoke any 1000cc bike with that little 125 in a twisties competition,
but when you get to a straightaway the 1000cc will of coarse pull away from it with ease

 

[kboe]

They are very easy to legalize.
1-wire up turn signals,
2-wire up head lights,
3-put mirrors on
= legal

You forgot step #4 - get it inspected and approved by the DMV. Not really a slam dunk considering the frame is clearly stamped (by the VIN plate) NOT FOR HIGHWAY USE or OFF ROAD USE ONLY or something like that.

You could maybe sneak it by, but definitely "grey market" here in California.

 

[yabusa8ate3]

RS125's have been around for years. where have you been mr. motorcycle guy you?

 

[maxandgrinch]

There is also an issue with the VIN - the 7th(?) number is an X or C - which means not road legal. It's about a grand in parts to make it all work anyways - you could buy a clapped out Mille and change the sprockets for that much.

We may all make fun of the DMV, but even they'd see this plate, and perhaps even read it:

 

[Motorcycle RN]

Jan. issue of Superbike has a shootout between the Aprilia, Honda, & Yamaha 125s.

 

[DJNick]

Hey Rick first off happy new year. I had one of these when I was living in Jakarta, great bike, tons of fun but required a lot of maintenance. Good thing the cost of labor in Indonesia was so cheap, about $2 an hour.

 

[jrace]

They are very easy to legalize.
1-wire up turn signals,
2-wire up head lights,
3-put mirrors on
= legal

Nice job, finishing off 2008 with one of your famously false postings.

-jim

 

[Dmitriy]

If you look here there are quite a few folks who are now riding it on the street plated and all.

 

[jrace]

If you look here there are quite a few folks who are now riding it on the street plated and all.

Without going through all of those threads, how many of them are from California?

-jim

 

[MCOM_RC31]

i saw that machine at the rockridge 2wheels spot... it was quite noice.... i mean 5k isnt a bad start to a decent track bike.... but 10k later..... it would probably take mille69 but not passed 210mph...

They are very easy to legalize.
1-wire up turn signals,
2-wire up head lights,
3-put mirrors on
= legal

And any rider with enough balls could smoke any 1000cc bike with that little 125 in a twisties competition,
but when you get to a straightaway the 1000cc will of coarse pull away from it with ease

There is also an issue with the VIN - the 7th(?) number is an X or C - which means not road legal. It's about a grand in parts to make it all work anyways - you could buy a clapped out Mille and change the sprockets for that much.

We may all make fun of the DMV, but even they'd see this plate, and perhaps even read it:

and of coarse the blurb about the 1000 pulling away from a 125 is true.. at least he got that part right.

here is your new avatar nathan..

 

[weak_link]

For that kind of cash you could have a TZ250 and a mountain of spares. Unless you were going to race the repchallenge, I don't get it.