2016 APRILIA TUONO 1100 RR
FIRST RIDE
P96
BY ALAN CATHCART
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEL EDGE
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here's no replacement for displace-
ment! So in order to keep its hitherto
supreme V4 Tuono Naked muscle
bike one step or more ahead of the latest
competition from Austria, Germany and
Italy, rather than nominally updating it by
adding a few more stickers and a couple
of revised engine maps, Aprilia has taken
the most straightforward route to delivering
extra power and torque, and simply added
cubes. It's taken the uprated 999.6cc 65°
V4 motor found in the new RF/RR Super-
bike duo, and further maxed out its already
radically oversquare 78 x 52.3mm dimen-
sions with a 3mm overbore to 1078cc,
thus increasing power to 175bhp/129kW at
11,000 rpm, up from 170bhp before.
But the biggest gain is in torque, with
a massive 121Nm now available at 9000
rpm, compared to 115.5Nm on the previ-
ous one-liter version. And even more to the
point, there's already 20bhp more than be-
fore at 8000 rpm, and a far flatter torque
curve for greater lowdown grunt.
APRILIA'S TUONO HAS GONE THE
TRADITIONAL ROUTE TO MAKE THE TUONO
FASTER. IT'S GIVEN IT MORE CUBES!
GOOD OL' FASHIONED
HORSEPOWER!
