£8,500
1998 Aprilla RS 250, 250 cc. Registration number S808 RMJ. Frame number ZD4LDA000WS101075. Engine number 111655.
For a company with an impressive racing pedigree, Aprilia were late to the 250cc road bike market. Their beautiful RS250 race bike appeared in GPs in 1991 and won its first world title with Max Biaggi at the end of 1994. With almost perfect timing, Aprilia had announced their roadgoing RS250 before Mr B had washed the champagne out of his goatee.
Aprilia did a deal with Suzuki to buy RGV250 engines (3500 in the first year), which they modified and fitted into a chassis designed to be as beautiful as it was functional. To this package they added high-spec adjustable suspension, even higher-spec Brembo brakes and bodywork that looked as close to the racer as they could. It even had a lap timer built into the clocks.
Aprilia used the Suzuki engine pretty much as it was in the RGV. They skimmed the head for raised compression, remapped the digital ignition for improved midrange, added an extra solenoid to the two that controlled air/fuel mix in the carbs and used their own exhaust pipes. The RS250 has around ten per cent more power and torque than the standard RGV between 8000-11,000rpm.
By the time Aprilia got hold of the V-twin, RGV motor it’d had six years of development, one major upgrade and a ten per cent power increase on the original 1988 version. More importantly, Suzuki changed the design of the powervalves in 1991 to make them much more reliable and continued to work on power delivery and reliability in the meantime.
RMJ was first registered by Market Motorcycles and by 2003 was owned by Michael Penrose of Hemel Hempstead who had it serviced at 4,351 KM, MOT's from 2001 at 2,167 miles, 2002 at 2,516, 2004 at 2,737, 205 at 2,871, 2009 at 3,261, 2011 at 6,144 KM (3,817 miles, the odometer can be in either Miles or KM), 2018 at 3,930 and 2019 at 4,055 confirm the very low mileage and occasional use.
In 2018 our vendor purchased it from Moto Revolution and has hardly used it.
Sold with the V5C, MOT history, original warranty booklet and card, experian check in 2018 two keys and other literature.
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