Don't see these come up for sale very often

[daveuprite]

Amazingly there's another one for sale too. Looks pretty good in blue.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-xlv750 ... SwNlVehNEG

[daveuprite]

Just found it weighs 220kgs !! WTF ?

[soho]

220 kilo's........... Not all of 'em of course !

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[boboneleg]

I vaguely remember them in showrooms at the time, but I was so into sports bikes back then that I never took much notice. What a stunner. Bit like an HRC RC30 coloured dirt bike.

That's the one Dave, £800

[daveuprite]

It's a pity that Aprilia's pretty and powerful little RXV450 didn't succeed. It was the logical successor to that old Honda. But the RXV was appallingly unreliable and only the bravest people bought one.



Is there demand still for a mid-capacity V-twin dual sports bike?

[Tonibe63]

It's a pity that Aprilia's pretty and powerful little RXV450 didn't succeed. It was the logical successor to that old Honda. But the RXV was appallingly unreliable and only the bravest people bought one.



Is there demand still for a mid-capacity V-twin dual sports bike?

Dual sport as in cafe scrambler 90% road use yes but the Aprilia RXV was too much of an enduro bike and the wrong side of the dual sport line to go against the established brands, wasn't there a 550 too .
My thoughts are that the Japs, Yamaha in particular, have made good use of their parallel twin/cross plane crankshaft engine designs that give that Vtwin sound in a more compact package, the engineering is well proven and been in use for over 20 years (tdm/trx 850's). Maybe this pushes the Vtwin in to more of a styling exercise these days?
Lexmoto have bought out a lovely Vtwin 'scrambler' which would sell well if it had a different tank badge, as with all Scramblers though it is a styling exercise that doesn't possess any offroad capabilities.

[Billy Bananahead]

I always wanted one of those XLV's when i was a courier in the Smoke after i saw one being despatched done up in Camel cigarette colours.
I had to make do with, at the time, my VT500. Still it was a good little bike and now keep yearning after the Ascot version, which aren't quite as rare as the XLV.

[dodursley]

I had an Ascot twice, the same one, brought it from the importer & ran it for a couple of years,sold it locally the brought it back about 10 years later again sold it on after a few years. Saw it more recently at a Bidiford bike day rattlecan sprayed black!

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Also had a XLV750, quite a big lump, quick, think it had been tuned as it was quite topended, little bottom end grunt

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[Billy Bananahead]

A lot of power out of those little v-twin lumps.

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

I was lucky enough to ride an Aprilia 450 at Rogers Hill Raceway...an absolute rocketship. Did a lighthearted write-up on the experience on the old TBM forum, where I compared riding it to being a sad middle-aged bloke making love to a very fit and enthusiastic young woman.
I think the one I rode may have gone bang afterwards. I saw another at Midwest in Wiltshire a month or too later, and they were trying to work out how to fix it.
Too much as a dirtbike...but would make a hell of a supermoto!
A bit like those other mad Italian bikes...Vertimatti, VOR etc. All as mad as a box of frogs, and likely to go bang without warning.
Ironically...in the truck industry VOR means vehicle off road...as in immobile.