Model(s) covered: 2001 Cagiva Raptor 1000
To an Italian style is everything, form and function follows style, it doesn't proceed it.
Let's take a stroll down memory lane, let's go back to the early Seventies, a time when Japanese bikes were fast, reliable and heavy. When good handling was a thing that even Japanese race bikes were still only aspiring to. In those days of flared trousers and dodgy rock stars in too much make up, only the British and the Italians could build anything that could go around a corner with any sort of composure.
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