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APRILIA TUONO 1000 RACING

The Tuono is a completely different animal to the Firestorm. Rather than being born entirely of its own vision, the Tuono is more of a bastardised version of a RSV Mille. And that’s definitely not meant as a criticism by the way, we’re massive fans of the Mille here at Fast Bikes (in fact Dangerous has just gone and bought himself one, that’s how much he’s ‘into’ them). But this isn’t just any old Tuono – this is a limited edition Tuono Racing. Exactly how ‘limited’ this edition is, is up for some debate – officially only 200 units were intended to be built, but rumour has it that there were actually a few more than that kicking about at one stage or another.

The ‘Racing’ version comes with the same 126bhp motor as the RSV Mille R, Oz forged alloy wheels,

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