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cially impressed by the Road vs. Race modes. Road mode
highlights what you need for the street—speed, fuel, trips,
etc. Race, on the other hand, highlights your lap time. A neat
feature is you can change the background light from black to
white and back again like on the Triumph Street Triple 765,
and there are fun little tidbits on display like Roll, Throttle, and
Brake pressure.
One function I wasn't crazy about as the end-user of the
new TFT display was the frequency in which all the lights sur-
rounding the thing would go ape-shit every time I got deep
into a corner or grabbed a normal, healthy amount of gas
exiting corners. This distracting but colorful dance of flashing
lights reminded me of the end of the Close Encounters movie.
It's neat to see how much and how how often the various
electronic aides are chipping in to help you out, but enough
was enough after a while.
Keep the
Aprilia Tuono
pinned. It's
a naked
superbike,
after all.
(Top-bottom) That little grey switch on
the handlebar is what lets you access
the traction control maps on the fly.
Aprilia has done an excellent job with
the new dash. Sachs unit on the RR is
still up to the job for 99 percent of tasks
thrown at it. The same engine across
both models mean your buddy's Factory
will never out-drag your RR. Unless he
gets the jump on you!
