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The Falco features in the May issue of Bike. Compares the SV and the R1200s and Falco as forgotten gems of the decade. Falco by far the sportiest and a generally good write up.

This is no good. We need PDF links and images uploaded! Chop chop!

Sorry chaps - haven't got a scanner at home and can't get access to the forum from work

It is quite a good write up though it would obviously have faired better had it been Black.

Also in the panigale issue (april?)
chippy wood near the back page chooses it as his most
desireable bike.

Read the article in BIKE last night and all in all it was fair, the tester seemed to like tjhe bike for all of the same reasons why I bought one.
The Falco does not logically fit in any pigeonhole even when it was new it was a compromise and now it seems just plain strange.
I am so glad I didn't buy an SV and I never even saw a BMW, I bought the Falco because it is a big old solid piece of kit, I've done the mods and the bike has become what it started life as, a midway point between an all out racer and long distance tourer.

I will not get it past 120mph and I know I will not be touring the continent but it could do either if I had to.

A well balancd piece about a Falco (prices going up)

I've never really viewed it as a compromise at all. It's a bike that seems more capable than most others as they tend to take huge compromises in many areas to just be a little bit better in one area.
The Falco does just about everything (except off-road) very well indeed. In fact as a road bike (the place most people use them) it is far more competent than most.
I think Aprilia's idea of the "Sports Light" was brilliantly executed. I think the failure of the wider biking community to "get it" and buy the bike they really needed rather than follow the herd says more about some of the bike buying population than the bike itself ..... that is until they "stumble upon" the bike and find out what they've been missing all along.

Funny thing is, this idea of a sporty bike for the road isn't new. I had (and still have) a 400/4. Smaller capacity and older but still bloody brilliant - a bike you could throw everything at and always come back grinning.
Not sure when we lost sight of these things .....

Motorcycle magazine journalists are largely to blame IMO.

Their obsession with track biased ever faster lighter sports bikes means that the average joe tends to be steered towards such at the expense of the more road orientated machine.

PS would be great if somebody could scan it.. can't get Bike here in the desert at the moment.

D-Rider I also had a 4004\4 prettiest bike I ever owned the idea of a 400 4 cylinder bike for a 19 year old was out of this world.

Traded it for a Z1000A2 always missed the Honda.

Compromise might not be the right word but I like the fact that it doesn't quite fit the mould, a biking equivelent of the Alfa Romeo if you see what I mean.

The longer I own it the more I love it, I am pretty sure I will be the last owner of this particular bike.

The Falco is a great bike, though many other can do the same for similar money. Pays your money takes your choice.

If no-one has a scanner, someone needs to take a few mobile pics and up load them. any phone with a 5-8mp camera should be more than enough.

It also got a mention in MCN this week as the sensible Italian option. But the still love the duke ST4.

This is not the current article in Bike Mag!
It is the earlier one by Mike Armitage in Bike a few years ago and is one of the best.
He also decided it was possibly the most underated bike of all time.
This bloke really rode the Falco and understood it.

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