Here's a tip for Aprilia's sales floor managers: If a potential Dorsoduro buyer walks into your dealership, blindfold him and seat him on the Dorsoduro, start the engine and let him play with the throttle. Another sale - done.
It's been a long, long time since an engine's sound got me so horny, provoking uncontrollable spasms in my annular muscles down there and unhealthy tension in my branded knickers. In our PC/castrated- exhaust era, we've seemingly forgotten just how important the aural appeal of a bike really is. Need more? The Dorso's sound could be likened to a good mix of industrial techno grind with Uzi sub-machine gun at full chat undertones, and it perfectly depicts this little mean machine's attitude: Nervous, raring to go, craves for your inputs at any given moment and responds to them with infantile enthusiasm.
The visual side of this multimedia experience doesn't lag behind. This is Miguel Galuzzi's first full project at Aprilia, and it's not hard to see that the guy burned the midnight oil, sketching and modeling foams deep into the night. I am downright tented to define the Dorsoduro as his finest creation ever, and that’s quite a compliment considering that Galuzzi penned the original Ducati Monster. It’s not easy to find other scoots that have such a precise and well-defined vision, such an array of well-distilled and exciting forms. In my eyes, the Dorsoduro can take a well-deserved pole position in the "moto design" starting grid, sharing the front row with other luminaries such as the Hypermotard and the last version of KTM’s 990 supermoto. As we’ll see, it’s addressed at quite a different type of rider, but that’s for later.
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2008 Aprilia Dorsoduro Review on Motorcycle.com
2008 Aprilia Dorsoduro Review
