revtothelimit - motorbike forum

https://www.velocemotorcycles.com/aperion

Got £78k burning a hole in your pocket and like two smokes, then this is the bike for you!

It's an X (not a V) 8

Wow!

Edit: "Each Aperion will have a specific authorization to be driven on British soil, in accordance with the MSVA (Motor Single Vehicle Approval) procedure."

Not very pretty, though.

If Salvador Dali made exhaust systems......

The seat looks like I made it.

Hey ho, £78k is small change for some and some of them will want/must have one. It's, sort of, a shame to bury the engine behind all that exhaust plumbing though.

Is that an old GS750 tank? For 78k you would expect a little more effort on aesthetics.

Can you imagine doing a jetting change on 8 carburettors? Love the concept, wish they'd brought it kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

Where is the chain? Can see the pockets for the cush drive on a half arsed single sided swinger.

Is it a mix of AI and optimism. Hideous looking for £78k

Ian wrote: Fri Jun 26, 2026 5:36 pm Is that an old GS750 tank? For 78k you would expect a little more effort on aesthetics.

And the seat from someones beat to shit Triton they found in a shed 40 years later.

Hideous!

If you got £78k worth of £1 coins and randomly tipped them on the floor it'd be about as aesthetically pleasing. In fact more so as you could then take that pile of coins and buy a few nice looking bikes

Would the rider be given insulated or water-cooled heat proof trousers? Call Wallace and Gromit!

It looks like a chickens intestines