2012 Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200

2012 Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200

 2012 Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200

  2012 Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200

  2012 Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200

  2012 Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200

  2012 Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200

  2012 Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200

  2012 Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200

  2012 Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200

 2012 Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200

Just 15 months after its debut on the market, the Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200 has received its first upgrade. It’s not a radical evolution by all means, but it certainly is worth a blast up and down the turnpike road to the top of the Etna volcano at an altitude of almost 10,000 feet.
I was lucky. I reached that location on the only good day for a nice ride between two eruptions that dropped a thick layer of ashes on the roads, and right after a fierce storm that washed the roads to adequate grip conditions. This 2012 edition of Aprilia’s maxi-supermoto bike deserved a day of truce from those extremely hostile environmental conditions.
Aside from providing new graphics that extract the best from the bike’s unchanged basic design, the Aprilia specialists have developed a host of bags and other touring accessories. That makes a lot of sense, since they have set the Dorsoduro 1200 on a more-precise mission as an adventure-tourer, putting the previous model’s proven combination of solid power, good handling and superb comfort to its best use.
On the technical side, the new Dorsoduro 1200 officially shed some 7 pounds off its curb weight, bringing it down to 493½. It also unofficially gained about 4 horsepower up to 130. I say unofficially because at the original Dorsoduro’s model introduction in 2010, Aprilia alleged 130 hp at 8700 rpm, but that was an exercise in rounding out the numbers; these latest figures are more realistic.