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Thursday, October 23, 2025

1988 AF1 Sintesi Replica Swiss version

Sometimes the rules on motorcycle homologation are a little bit silly, an example of this in the 80's was that to sell a bike into the Swiss market it could only have one headlight...

Aprilia were no exception to this so had to produce a revised fairing with a single square headlight to be able to sell a bike into the Swiss market. Honda also produced a single headlight version of the JC20 NSR125 which looks equally odd. Other examples worth checking out are the Swiss RC30, OW01 and even the 916!




Magazine advert 1989 AF1 Sintesi Replica

Here us a cool advert from Bike Magazine from the UK importer of the time featuring the 1989 Sintesi Replica and a part of the Sistine Cha...