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RIDE REVIEW I 2021 APRILIA TUONO 660
Y
ou could get all romantic and say the
name "Tuono" is Italian for pure naked-bike
performance (it actually means "Thunder"
in Italian), but the fact is, the Tuono 1100 V4 has
been somewhat of a lonely figure of late.
The Tuono V4, as mentally deranged and
downright lovable as it is, has needed a backup
player to help bolster its rider numbers for some
time now. If you wanted a Tuono, you needed to
walk right on up and grab it from a dealer—there
was no way for new riders to get into the fold
and decide (predictably) that they loved Aprilia
and the Tuono V4 and everything it stood for. A
junior Tuono was needed. Enter the RS 660.
The RS 660's release halfway through last
year was more than just a new sport bike for
Aprilia. It signaled the start of a change in the
way Aprilia would market to new, sporty riders.
And like the RSV4 does for the Tuono V4 1100,
the RS 660 has done for the Tuono 660.
It's essentially an RS 660 without its clothes on.
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We all knew it
was coming,
but that doesn't
make the arrival
of the Aprilia
Tuono 660 any
less of a big-
time event
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