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APRILIA TUONO 1100 RR

When you hear the term, “naked bike” do you automatically think of something that’s been stripped of its bodywork and that’s it? Well, you’re in luck. If you were to take an Aprilia RSV4, take off the fairing, put an upright handlebar on it and present this as a ‘naked bike’, that is about as raw or close as you’d get to having a stripped down sportsbike in the form of the Aprilia Tuono 1100 RR.

Save for a little bit of a ‘retune’ the Tuono 1100 RR is about as close to a full blown sportsbike as you can get on the market. Does this bring

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