I've just spent 3 days with one of these, so I thought I'd write up what I thought about it. You can find that appreciation here, if you're interested: MV Agusta Rivale 800 Review – Flattery will get you nowhere - The Glidd of Glood Blog
Many thanks for your review Glidd.Found it most interesting and informative. I have seen pics of this bike and almost dribbled over its good looks,but being 5ft 8" I would not be suited to it.Perhaps that is a good thing after reading your review and the fuelling 'issues'.This is something that seems to be a recurring issues with a number of MV's.A great pity as it is such a looker,but not 'marriage' material.
Nice review Glidd, ive liked the looks of the F3 since it was released but not too sure about this naked version.
Good write up Glidd,I like the shape of the MV,its somewhere between a Kwack Z800 and a Benelli TnT.Love the pipes but is that some discolouration on the zorst cat box?
I think on the whole it looks great, but then ive got a hyper and my favourite bike ever was my old TDR, and previous to the Hyper I had a KTM660 supermoto which I would have had now if circumstances hadn't intervened the way they did. It would appear that you like one type of bike (nothing wrong with that - everyone has their own preferences) I like the odd styling (I like the dragster more as its more extreme) Fueling - while I appreciate your comments regarding fueling - I think its something that MV should address and probably can with a flash update. I think when a big point is made of fueling as an issue or problem its not all that (pardon the slang but its the way I see it) from personal experience. My hyper was just as bad, slow speed traffic was a nightmare - just like the MV always going up and down the gears, always pulling the clutch in and if you tried to stay where you were it chattered. 6 hours on the dyno sorted all of that out and it now goes faster pulls better and to boot uses less fuel so if you like the bike (or any bike for that matter) and fueling is mentioned its a relatively easy fix plus once done providing the engine setup is left then its never needs looking at again, and, you never need to pay for flash updates from the OEM. My RSV4 is booked in for the middle of next month....not because it has the same issues, its well fast enough for me. Its because ill end up with a more driveable bike that uses less fuel and ill not have to pay for any more additional flash updates as I intend from and engine point of view to keep it as is. A nice well rounded written review though....nice read and thanks for putting the effort in.
Yeah - you saying that reminded me while I was at the Dyno Place Chris said that the main reason for the "hunting" is the fuel is starved at the bottom end for EU regs....so while its shitty its not necessarily MV's or any other manufacturer's fault...but is, as I said easily rectifiable and produces better results...
Yes, that definitely is discolouration but I suspect they all do that. A bit poor eh? I mean it sort of leaps out at you.
Something that makes that kind of noise and looks the way it does.....I quite frankly find it offensive to leave the stock pipe on there!!
Cheers, Comfy. I must say that there was a lot about the bike I liked. TBH, aside from the fuelling, the other things are only really niggles, so long as you are a wind-resistant sort of person. If you could fix the fuelling somehow, then the bike would be a lot more "buyable". But I did find the fuelling as it stands a real wet blanket. I have to admit that I can't see the point in festooning your bike in electronic trickery (I mean, it must all cost money somewhere down the line) and then fail to address the one electronic thing that really matters - the fuelling. If my 999 can have spot on fuelling, why can't similarly expensive bikes made 8 years later? I do quite like the whole idea of bikes which give you fun at lower speeds. As second bikes, they can make a lot of sense. I enjoyed my rapid (well, not that rapid) scoot on a Triumph Bonneville thing a couple of weeks ago - probably only half the bhp of the MV. But when you need to cross half of France in a day, you do tend to need to step out of toy territory and get something half serious.
Youre welcome.... Strange - must be a wind thing....the last time I top ended the hyper I was looking at the clock thinking "132.....this feels boarderline comfortable" - so it cant of been that windy that day... Putting my neck on the block id say from chatting with Chris at CJS anything is fixable/tunable from an ecu point of view. He seems to know how to get into most bikes. Im counting the days to the RSV going in as what he does seems to fly in the face of general dyno tuning. i.e. on the RSV4 forum the general accepted way of dyno'ing an rsv is to get an open race ecu, add a bazzaz/pcv and then map accordingly.... Chris will be mapping each cylinder of mine and classing it as an engine in its own right - that way, he says, he can get it perfect but he'll need it for 2 days...which doesn't bother me as a, I don't use it that much as its a cash cow and b. I only live 15 mins away. There'll be no extra boxes added to it and the ecu that's in there will be dumped and remapped. Cant wait to see the end result/graph printout. If the riding position is the same on the MV as my hyper I find them comfortable. Last month 2 of us went over to Wales on it to pick up a dorso 1200 my mate bought, I was a passenger on my own bike for just over an hour and it wasn't too bad plus me and my mate are pretty lardy, me being 14st and him being 18st...must have looked comical to other road users...
me being 14st and him being 18st...must have looked comical to other road users... Did the bike look like it was being inserted rather than ridden? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-02wBARM6s90/T9D7A6EiD7I/AAAAAAAAKzc/ZFg0Yh91T_0/s1600/McGuire-Twins.jpg
Yeah not far off...although I think I hide it quite well as im only a 37" waist...plus I do a lot of weights and running...
Heh 2 years ago I was up round the 43" mark so! - 28" when I was 24 but I spend most of my time either down the local ice rink of in the skate parks....a nice IT deskjob does that to you but ive got a 4 mile stint on the treadmill tonight coupled with an episode of wheeler dealers... 5 mile if I can get to it but I never can! I did do p90x a couple of years ago and followed it all the way through diet an all - at the end the only thing anyone said to me was my auntie who said I could do with a square meal and thought I had a life threatening illness
