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Owned since 2020 and by a country mile the best motorcycle I have owned in 45 years of riding.
This is the big daddy of MV Brutales and in the best colour combo’ too. Beautiful, savage and the ultimate visceral riding experience. It’s hard to believe something this insane was ever sold in nanny state UK! No rider aids, no computer control, not even got ABS. You are on your own with the 1078 and it’s ‘kin brilliant. The sound, power, handling…. everything about this bike is designed to light up the senses. Sure there are faster bikes but nothing comes close to the experience of an unfiltered naked MV F4 (that engine is built by Ferrari hence the ‘F’). The engine is based on Ferrari’s radial valve Formula 1 V8 and snarls like a rabid dog.
IMHO this is also the best looking bike ever made and the hand built fit and finish is second to none. A 1078 is also easy to live with, there’s so much torque it’ll pull top gear from 30mph with ease. It’s a delight to ride around town or in traffic and on the open road, if you have the plums to get the revs up there it’s simply ballistic and hard for an old fart like me to even think that fast. Best of all is the mid range power, it’s not all revs, the mid-range torque is epic. It’s hard to sum up such a fantastic bike and one that unlike a lot of MV’s is almost entirely reliable.
First reg’ 08/ 2010. I purchased this from MV dealer Cupar Motorcycles, Fife (who are absolutely brilliant). Before taking delivery it had a full service including valves etc’. That was 2000 miles ago so no major servicing for a while. I don’t have a service book or history other than the clean bill of health received from Cupar when I got it and a bunch of invoices. Since then I have had new genuine fork seals fitted as one started to mist. Also the shifter spring broke, a common problem, and this was repaired using the updated and improved spring from the 1090. Oil and coolant changed less than 500 miles ago. I also had some electrical gremlins at first with starting/ stalling problems a few times which seems quite common. This was remedied with a lithium battery and an Exact Start premium battery cable kit. MV cables are too small and cause a voltage drop which kicks out the ECU preventing starting and causing stalls. Since then it’s been perfect and 100%, not a single hiccup. Earlier in the year I had a new rear tyre that’s not been on the road and still needs running in.
The bike is clean, everything works just as it should and most importantly it’s not been messed with. The only parts not stock are the crash bungs and a few pretty titanium and stainless bolts. The best MV is a stock MV!
Only selling because I have too many bikes and projects on the go and this one is 100% and not currently being used.
I have the V5 in my name. No finance 100% owned by me.
MOT is until September. Happy to renew with a paid deposit.
Owners book pack and 2 keys present.
V5 shows 5 keepers. Heres what MCN had to say….
Don’t think that this is just ‘another’ Brutale: the new 1078RR is very, very different. The Italian firm has been known to release a bewildering number of Brutale variants since the first 750 was released in 2003. As well as that original 750 and the later 910, there have been ‘S’ and ‘R’ versions and commemorative bikes, like the ones to celebrate Italy winning the World Cup two years ago. There was even the comically-named Brutale ‘Wally’, a limited-edition run of bikes named after the Monte Carlo yacht builder. The 1078RR is savagely fast with explosive power, but for the first time it’s friendly too. The suspension is now plush and dialled into the real world and the throttle response smooth. It’s one of the best super-nakeds in the business.
The new suspension is by far the best bit of the 1078RR and a massive U-turn from how Brutales used to be before. Gone is the old racetrack-stiff set-up, which crashed and bumped over the slightest ripple in the road, blighting the old bike and the previous F4 superbikes on anything other than the track. The supple new suspension now lets the Brutale glide serenely over road surfaces, giving a brilliantly smooth ride. Riding the MV slowly or around town is now an utterly pleasurable experience. Thanks to an impeccable set-up by MV’s test riders, the suspension also offers lots of control when you push too, so there’s not a weave or wallow in sight when you’re riding hard, even on the magnificent Pirelli Super Corsa tyres.
Shoehorned into the MV Agusta Brutale’s exquisitely hand-made chassis is the engine from the F4 RR312 superbike, retuned to give more mid-range thump. With a furious, rasping 154bhp pushing it along, the MV Agusta Brutale has the kind of acceleration you imagined a 500cc two-stroke GP bike would have when you were a kid. It’s impossible to get the throttle to the stop all the way through the revs in the first three gears because the MV will loop-the-loop. With that kind of violence available at your right wrist you start to
