PIKES PEAK-WINNING APRILIA TUONO 1100 RSV FACTORY
R I D E R E V I E W
P100
(Above) Cathcart
banks the Aprilia in. Even
with the taller suspension,
you can see there's barely
any room left under the
belly pan. (Left) Ohlins
TTX36 shock came
straight from the RSV4
1100 Factory... (Right) As
did the NIX30 fork.
Even riding up the relatively narrow road leading
to the peak on a street bike is a daunting experi-
ence, which made me all the prouder—as well as
all the more relieved!—to hear on June 30 this year
that 36-year old Rennie Scaysbrook had finally
achieved his four-year ambition of becoming the
King of the Mountain.
He did so by winning this year's Pikes Peak
event outright on an Aprilia Tuono 1100 Factory,
after three years of riding a KTM there to finish
second twice, and fourth once. He became the
first Australian to win the event by smashing the ex-
isting course record by a massive 4.662 seconds
in setting a time of 9:44.963, to achieve his prin-
cipal target of defeating the other factory-backed
entries from Ducati, BMW and Zero in winning the
Heavyweight Division category. Tragically, though,
his closest rival (and friend) for outright victory
