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  		   Posted 4/30/2007 8:22 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Our friends from MCN clue us in on another exotic European beauty, the MV Agusta F4 R312 - the 312 standing for the kilometers per hour the Italian machine claims as a top speed. Check out the 2007 MV Agusta F4 R312 - First Ride sound off, is the ritzy pricetag worth it to have the MV Agusta name in your garage?
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  		   Posted 4/30/2007 8:45 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
bmadson said...
is the ritzy pricetag worth it to have the MV Agusta name in your garage?
it's a nice bike for sure.  some folks will buy it just for the name for sure...whether it's worth it or not.  pretty sad logic to spend that much $$$ for the name but different folks, different strokes.
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  		   Posted 4/30/2007 9:42 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
eh, for $30K it's gotta be perfect. Crap gearbox, crap fueling and so so handling a winner does not make.(sez Yoda).

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 is the ritzy pricetag worth it to have the MV Agusta name in your garage?
The ones in the AMA this year are beautiful. To answer your question I can think of an American manufacture that's made a good living selling a name. 
 
 
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  		   Posted 4/30/2007 11:01 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Huffy? Oh, you mean Schwinn..

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  		   Posted 4/30/2007 11:13 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Ah...she's just so gorgeous, but for 30K, function ought to follow form. Does that mean she should stay as beautiful as she is and perform like a GSXR1000? For a third the price, I'll take the cheap date and spend the extra 20 grand on another Italian beauty with half the cylinders.
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  		   Posted 4/30/2007 7:33 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It's a dream bike. But, dreams can turn into nightmare. Just clean out the living room, put it up on a pedestal, and sit back and enjoy. Wobbling in corners, THAT was a wicked surprice.

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  		   Posted 4/30/2007 8:06 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
let's be honest here, the bike most prob doesn't wobble. it set fastest lap in the masterclass face off. a bike can wobble from several reasons, one being the rider's inputs...

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  		   Posted 5/1/2007 9:08 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Two words came to mind when I saw the pics. "Ciao bella!" Then I saw the price tag. One of these days I may be able to afford one of those exotic beauties.
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  		   Posted 5/1/2007 5:37 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

I like Italian things.  The food is great, and the culture is wonderful. And best of all, the women are beautiful.  You know the old saying, how a beautiful Italian woman is like a Ferrari.  She's beautiful, exotic and a lot more than most men can handle!

Having said that, I wouldn't be interested in one of these bikes, even if I had the money.  The Japanese machines beat them hands down on reliability, durability, ease and expense of maintenance, and performance.  And we can be sure that even a gorgeous woman that's "high maintenance" isn't worth having.  I can't believe this is the fastest bike out there unless it's just because MV doesn't follow the "gentlemen's agreement" to limit top speed of production machines to 300 km/h.  I'd bet money that the stock ZX-14 will easily beat this machine in the quarter mile.  And if just the limiter was eliminated, it would easily pull 200+ mph.  But I'm sure some would like these bikes.  To each his own.

 

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  		   Posted 5/1/2007 6:05 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Ho-Hum......reading between the lines, this bike sucks.  It costs almost three times more than a gsx-1000, and might be inferior to the gixxer.  And it doesn't have the emotional appeal of a twin or a triple.

I am the foremost expert on my opinion.

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  		   Posted 5/2/2007 3:31 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'd agree with you guys on the high price, poor gearbox and erratic fueling from idle, but the author of the article complained about the appearance. To my eyes, it may be several years old now, but nothing since has yet matched it for eye-appeal - the latest Japanese litre-bikes aren't even in the same league in looks.
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  		   Posted 5/2/2007 3:36 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Fogarty will be racing the R312 in World Superbike next year. Do you all think the popularity/attraction to the MV will change if it becomes a winner on the WSB tracks?
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  		   Posted 5/2/2007 4:11 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Fogarty's team will be racing...

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  		   Posted 5/2/2007 9:24 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
bmadson said...
Fogarty will be racing the R312 in World Superbike next year. Do you all think the popularity/attraction to the MV will change if it becomes a winner on the WSB tracks?
not for me even if it wins and keeps winning because it just doesn't offer enough to justify the price at this point but i'm sure there will be plenty of people buying it just because it wins races.
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  		   Posted 5/3/2007 7:33 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
yeah, sorry bout that Desmo. We don't know who Foggy's riders will be yet.
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  		   Posted 5/3/2007 7:36 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It annoys me intensely that the editor makes no mention of the irresponsibility of MV Agusta in making a street legal machine available that is out of compliance with the manufacturers agreement to keep speeds below 300KPH. This action will only hurt motorcycling's future. Irresponsible on the part of Motorcycle USA.com as well.
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  		   Posted 5/3/2007 8:05 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm not so sure that manufacturers' agreement you reference covers bikes sold in the US - just Europe. Oh, so going 299 kph is OK, but go over 300 and the bike maker is a bad actor? I don't think so. Speed and HP have long been selling features for performance autos and motorcycles, or didn't you notice over the last 50 years or so?
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  		   Posted 5/3/2007 10:24 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
What is more irresponsible, making a bike that can top 300kph or making a bike that has inadequate brakes? In normal day to day riding inadequate brakes would be much more of a hindrance. All the Harleys (which I dig for their other attributes) that I have recently ridden - Road King, Electra Glide had IMO inadequate brakes. How about getting on their case and writing to magazine editors of their irresponsibility by giving coverage to that brand?

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  		   Posted 5/3/2007 10:58 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
1st post and no discernible line of logic makes me think troll on this one Desmo, et. all.

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  		   Posted 5/3/2007 11:10 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm just giggle happy that I have the bike that doesn't leave any room for other bike lust in my life, :-) And, the place to ride it :-) :-) And, last winter was short on snow, so, the area is opening right now, it's Woo Hoo Time :-) :-) :-)

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Personally I do not feel Fogarty or who ever else rides with him will become big winners on the MV Agusta for the bike has to many wrong things with it & the firm will not have the money to keep up with the changes demaded by Fogarty & the team. 

Even if he was a big time winner there is the "power of the almighty dollar" when it comes to bikes just as good or even better at lower prices which most of the possible riders will purchase.

Remember all the others on the road are crazy & out to kill you.

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  		   Posted 5/3/2007 1:17 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yah Lou you're gonna have killer riding. The downside is that because you didn't have much snow CA is going to be in a drought...
And JohnnyL, I think you're right about the troll. Eesh.

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Hey, drought is our normal condition. We're used to it. 9 years out of ten we have a drought.

BTW, it's raining this morning. I think you jinxed my ride Desmo!

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Glad to be of service Cadd!

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