I'll join in this I think. These are my two. April and Miss Jane!
April
2007 Aprilia SXV 550
Bought this as a road going bike back in 2008 , brand new after selling my DRZ400sm.
Rode it on the road for about 700kms and chose the track instead, so much safer. Yeah right!
Raced it all over the country from mates organised ride days, to club racing, state champs and nationals.
This thing owes me two collarbones and a knee reco along with numerous other bits of metal, rubber, leather and carbon fibre and, is why it's currently in a million pieces on the shelf in my shed.
Wifey put it this way after the last broken collarbone, if you can't afford to crash you can't afford to race. So I retired from Supermoto racing at that point two years ago and now, since taking up MTB I've not an inkling to go back.
I will keep April though, she was my first new motorcycle purchase and currently my only. So plenty sentimentals there.
I have been dreaming of making a registrable dirt tracker out of her but only time will tell if I've got a post or ten for the build your own bike/car thread on here.
Here she is right before she threw me to the weeds for the final time.
Obligatory action shot
And this is Miss Jane, she is April's naughty little dirty sister!
2010 Aprilia MXV450
Miss Jane is unique, very unique here in Aus. She is one of only 4. All of them privately imported and only three of them are MX bikes (all from the US) the other coming from the UK as a Supermoto but with the MX wheels in the crate.
I know all of the other owners as well, as owning either of these bikes requires intimate knowledge of how to deal with an Italian motorcycle brand and how to openly give money, lots of it, to the gods of speed willingly and easily!
Currently setup for flat track but have another rear wheel, the original that I bolt in with an MX tyre for bumpy dirt duties.
Both are very different from the conventional 4 stroke motocross bike model in that for one, they are a fuel injected v-twin and two the engine forms an integral part of the frame structure. They rev to the moon and make all their power higher in the rev range. April was dyno'd at 66hp at the rear wheel and Miss Jane as a 450 isn't far behind.
The supermoto has had so many mods to make it go, look great and handle that it's just to long to write about. The MXV is mostly stock apart from the dirt track rear wheel, the twin Arrow exhaust and the 5 speed gear box upgrade I've got waiting to go in.
I've just started the final year of my electrical apprenticeship and finally starting to earn some decent coin again. My dreams of a grass tracker aren't really that far off and more time spared would allow more riding in the dirt on the MXV but MTB is just so good right now! hehe
Cheers
