Friday, January 24, 2025

Pre-production Project 108 AF1 Replica

Here is a great picture from the 1987 Milan motorcycle show showing the Replica version of the AF1 Project 108. As you can see the bike has slightly different colours with red on the tank and more green on the side panel and a green number spot on the tail, but the biggest change is that it also features a single headlight. 

It is common for manufacturers to display non-production ready machines or display machines in differing colours to test the market, or maybe the headlight fairing just wasn't ready in time for the show? I have also heard that twin headlights only became legal in Italy in 88, so maybe aprilia updated the bike to take advantage of this, but that needs fact checking. Either way its another piece of the model time-line.

image 1987 Milan Motorcycle Show

production version of the AF1 Replica


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Pre-production Project 108 AF1 Replica

Here is a great picture from the 1987 Milan motorcycle show showing the Replica version of the AF1 Project 108. As you can see the bike has ...