During the recent
EICMA show in Milan, Italy, MV Agusta displayed some of their 2019 model range
– the Brutale 1000 Serie Oro among them – ranging from super bikes to race
oriented track weapons to sports nakeds. With the company claiming a fresh
injection of funds and resolution of its financial troubles over the past two
years, MV Agusta looks to be re-entering the market on a strong foot.
Making its debut at
EICMA as a concept bike but scheduled for production in the second half of 2019
is the 2019 MV Agusta Super Veloce Ottocento, or Superveloce 800 for those of
us who do not speak Romance languages. Derived from the F3 800 sports bike, the
Superveloce 800 harks back to the racing machines of the seventies,
yellow-tinted windscreen and headlight, mimicking the endurance racers of that
era.
The headlight
itself is a circular twin-element LED unit accompanied by a yellow LED DRL
located just inside the fairing at the base of the windshield. A new sub-frame
design allows for the rider to transform the Superveloce 800 between single and
pillion riding duties and the adjustable footpegs allow the rider to tailor the
bike to fit.
Targetted at the
American market with its red, white and blue paintwork is the Dragster 800RR
America. Launched last year, the Dragster America is updated for the upcoming
riding season with new LED tail lights and DRL.
An integrated
steering damper is built into the the upper triple clamp and up-and-down
quickshifting is standard. Of note are the passenger footpegs which fold away
into the tail piece, giving the Dragster 800RR America a sleek, clean profile.
Another variant of
MV Agusta’s Brutale is the Brutale 800 RC, decked in carbon-fibre components
including the front fender, inner rear fender, side panels and instrument
cluster cover. Forged wheels finished in red along with RC style paintwork
complete the look look of the Brutale 800 RC.
In the middleweight
sports bike stakes are the F3 675 RC and F3 800 RC – ‘RC’ standing for Reparto
Corse or Racing Department – equipped with MV Agusta’s inline three-cylinder.
As a limited edition motorcycle, both the 675 RC and 800 RC come with a
dedicated race kit that includes a titanium SC Project full-system exhaust
along with carbon-fibre and aluminium components.
On the touring side
of things is the Turismo Veloce RC, which MV Agusta says moves away from a
segment “characterised by increasingly heavy and bulky bikes.” The 2019 Turismo
Veloce RC comes with what MV Agusta calls the “Smart Clutch System”, or SCS,
which allows for either manual or automatic clutch operation.