Honesty speaking, there are several factors why the brandname of
cagiva , aprilla , piaggio and their eurpoean counterparts are
naturally associated as "problem" bikes.
In europe, people ride bikes for style, as a passion and hobby
unlike here where bike provides a lower cost of trasportation.
Hence most european bike makers design their to be stylish,
fasionable and really a joy to ride. Personally i've ridden both
cagiva mito 7 and aprilla extrema and can verify that their
handling is superb. Nothing reallt comes close to the thrill and
eastasy of soaring through the streets in these racing bikes.
Howevere the downside is that these bikes are Racing bikes, design
to be trashed throughly . Racing bikes requires racing maintainces,
changing of piston ring after 3000km, chaging of piston after
10000km.Noboby in singapore ,in their right mind will have such
deep pockets for these,hence these bikes are throughly trashed and
deem worthless after 4-5 years of usage simpy because their owners
do not know the amount of maintaince that the bike is
lacking.
5 years ago, nobody will say that aprilla is a lousy bike because
the model is so new that there's no problem whatsoever.
Maybe 5 years down the road, SP, TZM, KIPS , will suffer the same
fate and we should see a excess of suh bikes like amout of TZR
that's been thrashed, repaired , and scraped.
