Aprilia Pegaso 650 "trail"

Jean has taken a shine to above mentioned bike.
So much, that she is considering buying new and getting rid of the 750SS...

Anyone here had one (the Aprilia not Jean) ? Stuff to watch out for/know
about ?

 

A local bloke Geoff Prentice[1] has had three Pegasos and toured all
over Europe on each of them, so that says something about them. He has
had one failure, and that was a fuel pump on his latest one. I'm pretty
sure they have the Yamaha 660 single engine cos Geoff said something
about the fuel pump being a Yamaha item not Italian.

He's been very happy with them, and even kept the last one when he
bought the latest one.

[1] Used to own a little motorbike spares and repair shop in town, and
has a weird V-Max combo with home-built steering chair wheel and home
fabricated alloy body. The man's a bit of a loon, but a nice loon.

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Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

Are they Yamaha motors now - the first Pegasos at least were powered by
Rotax.

I was always having to tell people that a Nordwest was neither a Rotax
or Yamaha lump.

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I think they are. I am certain Geoff mentioned it at some time. His
first Pegaso Strada, years back, was a Rotax engined one for sure

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Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

It is a Yamaha engine

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/639/attachments/Aprilia Pegaso
650%202006.pdf

--
Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

Holy crap Geoff's still around!! Whereabouts? I wonder if he's still
with Helen. When I knew him he was still recovering from cutting a car
in half with a 900ss.

 

Yes, new ones are, which is a good thing

 

Your spelling is correct. Looks like he married Helen
http://www.thepeerage.com/p21897.htm

I didn't realise she was royalty.

 

Dunno but I used to put money in his pocket when he was flogging tat
out of his dads barn in the village where I lived.

 

He's still with Helen, they now have a 13 yr old daughter.


--
Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

I wouldn't be at all surprised, she does seem to be extremely well
spoken and educated. I'm sure she was born a little before 1960 though,
as she appeared to be mid 20s when I first met her when I was 16 and
riding a FS1E.

--
Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

No, she's deffo the same age as me, we were at school together. Can you
e-mail me some contact details please I love to catch up with them again?

Thanks,

/Simon

 

I'll do my best, but as far as I know Geoff and Helen are still living
at Geoff's dad's farm cos Geoff has taken over running it. 'E be a
faaaarmer-boi now.

Helen rides an early SV650 now.

I'll proably see Geoff on Thursday so I'll give him your email address.

--
Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

Brilliant!

 

Getting back on subject ...... probe him about the Pegaso please

 

Quit stealing my stolen thread.

 

Ta.... a shortage of 2-3 year old ones tells me either people like them ....
or not many have been sold.... hmm, can't find the numbers on google....
wonder if TOG can get some numbers ?

 

You certainly don't see many Aprilia 650s on the roads around here. Here
being the Brecon Beacons NP, which would be ideal terrain for such a
bike. There are loads of the BMW 650s though, older Aprilia built ones
and newer German ones.