Aprilia Enduros Go Street Legal for U.S.!
Aprilia's RXV 4.5/5.5 Enduros are now street-legal for the 2008 model year; available with 449cc or 549cc V-twins, they boast the only two-cylinder offroad powerplants on the market. Revisions include tucked-in tailpipes, a larger 3.1 gallon fuel tank, and EPA/CARB-friendly mods that nearly double the engine's service interval. Suspension settings have been tweaked, a new throttle cam improves off-idle response, and the whole package is wrapped in all-new graphics.
The RXVs' new street legal status adds turn signals and the usual DOT-related paraphernalia (which has been lifted from this photo of a race-prepped RXV), and the 4.5 and 5.5 models start at $8,599 and $9,299, respectively. For more on the RXVs, go to apriliausa.com. If you're interested in riding impressions of the new RXV, post a comment and request a full review... if interest is strong enough, I'll test one these torquey, titanium-valved V-twins.
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Comments
Nobody’s interested in the world’s only twin-cylinder offroad bike?
I’m surprised, folks…
-Basem
only two-cylinder offroad powerplants on the market? Apparently no one informed KTM that their 950s weren’t considered offroad-capable.
Hi Nate,
KTM’s 950s, while offroad capable, are classified as on-off road. The Aprilia 4.5/5.5s are setup for offroad riding, but now have items like turn signals added to make them street legal.
Cheers,
Basem
Hair-splitting. I suppose the HP2, by some semantic stretch, is also either not off-road or not a twin?
Nate,
True, we could hair-split ’till the cows come home, especially given the many ways bikes can be classified.
Semantics aside, are you interested in a review?
Basem
Please review! How good is it off road? Do the handle bars need to be swapped out, they look a little weak for off road use. Is this really capable off road in the east? i.e, not the desert but for trails in the woods?
I am very interested and may purchase one of these. I am deciding between this, the KTM, Suzuki or Kawasaki.
I love this bike, they are a lot of fun to ride off-road and pretty powerful. i have wanted to buy one for 2 years but i need sonething that is street legal. I went with the suzuki DR-Z400S a year ago but if this is street legal now im deffinately gonna buy one but are you sure the the RXV is street legal and you don’t mean the SXV? The RXV pictures i have looked at have all the lights but no plate mount and no mirrors, can they be added on or do the just take them off when they take photos?
The RXV is street legal, but at the time this blog was posted the only photo available was one without the plates and mirrors. Check out my photo gallery and review of the RXV 5.5, but note that its plates and mirrors were removed for offroad riding.
The supermoto SXV version is also street legal.
-Basem