MAGNI MV AGUSTA FILOROSSO
ROAD TEST
P84
played at EICMA 2015, having been extensively
road tested to iron out any problems, and produc-
tion kicked off, with the bikes built in batches of
five at a tax-free price of approximately $32,000,
and a six-month lead time before delivery.
B ACK T O THE FUTURE
I've been privileged to ride many wonderful
racers down the years, from Fogarty Ducatis to
Valentino's M1 Yamahas, and a host of exotic
classic racers into the bargain. But the one that
gets my blood racing and my heart soaring is the
MV Agusta triple, because no other motorcycle
so completely captures the sound as well as the
substance of two-wheeled exotica, of the kind of
engineering mystique that wins serial world titles.
It's the one. I'm fortunate to have ridden one of
the 16 genuine three-cylinder GP racers (in both
350 and 500 versions) which Count Agusta's
race team built in total down the years, as well
as the last of the six Evoluzione bikes produced
by Claudio Castiglioni before he died. So I have
Even without its
clothes on, the
Filorosso looks
"decent."
(Left) Modern but still authentic. (But where's the half tennis ball for
wiping off the bugs?) (Middle) We still have yet met a triple that we didn't
like. (Right) The brakes almost work too good.
