2018 MV Agusta Brutale 800 RR Review 

I'm planning on picking one of these up... QUESTION - which do you prefer the regular or dragster version?

@@ThisGuyRates Brutale for longer trips and comfort, Dragster for the most fun IMO. Also, the passenger-seat on the Dragster sucks, but who want's a passenger on a Dragster ;-)

Thank you! Reason why I want a 2019 800 RR, coming from a 2003 Aprilia RSV Mille 👌🏾, switch gears look damn near identical from each bike so I’d feel right at home and I never ridden a MV Before or owned one but I love the uniqueness about them, how they stick out from other brands etc. I could just buy another Aprilia but I rather get a different type of experience/sound😈

MV's designer is english.

You will have to wait till 2021... and it will probably be a hybrid

Correction "It will probably be a 300horsepower hybrid"

Asad S except the sides of the tank. Looks like wings on a damn aeroplane

HeyAddieImTojo with 140hp at 175kg sounds like an "aeroplane" to me.

I'd have your MT10 over this thing in a heartbeat.

The grass isn’t greener, your MT10 is 10x the bike compared to this thing. It’s a pretty bike, but that’s about it.

ROTFLMAO, yup, the new engine will be a V4 when I'm POTUS. FAT CHANCE. LMAO.

OK, let's take it from the top (Disclaimer: Just some guy's opinion). MV Agusta has never made a V4, is not their bread and butter, no in their heritage. Do you have the slightest idea how much money and time it takes to R&D a WHOLE NEW powerplant, specially one you have never built ? LOTS. Just ask Ducati, they started about 5 years just to get the ball rolling and that's having and drawing lot's of experience from their MotoGP effort. It will be another in-line 4 slightly bigger than 1,0L. Giovanni is full of shit and wind, he's done nothing to get MV out of the constant BLACK HOLE is always getting sucked in. Italians can make beautiful motorcycles but can't steer the company and factories FOR SHIT. Case in point, DUCATI, doing better than ever under German(AUDI) ownership. Now a days there's very little "room" left to be "new". New ? How ? Will it have only one wheel ? No frame at all ? 8 cylinders ? I like V4's too but "the best engine for a luxury brand" ? Nah . . . but, OK, you're entitled to your opinion, w/e floats your boat. Mate, for all you know I could be one of those retarded kids wasting their lives away, that I leave it to you to debate. I tend to use w/e it's easier to express myself, I'm one lazy MOFO not trying to win any Literature Prizes or anything. Mate, I'm too tyred and old to be offended just because someone had a different opinion about the same matter and out of all places, here, YT and I sure as Hell won't be turning into a better person, too fucked up and jaded, TOO LATE. LOL. It's perfectly fine, carry on. You have a nice day too. (^_^)/

If you're right and all they do is a barely redesigned bike with lots of carbon parts on it to justify an ultra premium price, then MV is a truly dead company. Disapointing.

no name let's wish I'm VERY WRONG about them. They do make good looking motorcycles.👌👍

Jiga, well I read the interview of giovanni and timur they did this week, and apparently they will use the current frame of the F4RC and the current inline 4 with all the progress made within the competition. Timur said at least 200 hp for 175 kg dry. And a very different look. I wished they asked to an engineering company that makes motors as the english company called Ricardo that designed the Mclaren engines or another company as Cosworth or whatever, you know what I mean to make a new V4 engine for MV. Now I will hope the 2019 Tuono V4 will get a completely new look and the S1000RR will have a crossplane crankshaft because I love that engine sound and maybe I'll buy the S1000R when they will release it.

The Euro 4 standard Brutale 800 is down on power compared to the previous gen, but with cartloads more useable torque. This is the Euro 4 800RR, same power output as the Euro 3 compliant bike (140hp), more torque, slightly more weight (I think about 4kgs from memory)

thanks

The whole area of Lombardy is beautiful. I went to Lake Como for the Guzzi festival last year, and also to Chiavenna. North Italy is great for motorbiking!

Are you ((()))) maybe?

And, price and reliability.

@Justin Voluck me also hahaha

Given how poorly the Streetfighter S sold, and I say that as an owner of one, I don't think Ducati is going to bother with a V4 Streetfighter for a long time.

They were too early with the first gen Streetfighter, everyone was superbike mad. Now naked bike are the most popular range for all manufacturers. Sure the monster is good, but if they make a sorted Streetfighter, it will sell very well.

They made the Streetfighter in some form from 2009 - 2015. The 848 version even won motorcycle.com middleweight a time or two. Today there is ferocious competition with Tuono, S1000R, 1290R, Speed Triple, and FZ-10. I mean, I'll buy the V4 Streetfighter the day it's released but given the price point of the V4 superbike it's going to be a hard value proposition for many people. The streetfighter was not a money maker and Ducati does remember this and they won't want to cannibalize their own monster sales.

Exnihilo415 I agree. I had a 2014 SF848 and traded it in last summer for a 2017 Brutal 800. The Ducati SF was amazing but they sat on the showroom floor. I'm not a fan of the newer Monster's which are already 16-18k. Imagine what the V4 SF would cost....20k plus. Too steep for most people.

Matt Dickson Troy is now officially back on the staff. Look for him with a review of he Scrambler 1100in the near future!

adrián ferrer MV Smokes the 821

splatterchops I'm not talking about power...

If you want the thing to start everyday neither lol

At that price, Ohlins front and rear should be standard along with the M50's, as well as cruise control and heated grips. I'll take the Speed Triple all day over this and save a good chunk of change.

@TJ I'm with you man, I hate the bug eyes of speed triple at first but damn, the looks grows on me. having said that, the bike seems perfect now. but hey, there are always people who buy an MV just because they love the brand.

Except MT10 is fugly as hell. New Speed Triple RS for me.

Tj- Ya this bike looks nice but so does the Speed Triple and it is cheaper and faster and probably more reliable too.

2016 mv agusta dragster here. The marzzochi forks work excellent.

I think it was a dig at KTM.

lol you nailed it........

5putput why is this a joke

Cb 1000 lmao!!!

geez if this is the fanboy crowd of the MV's thats just sad

no one is MV fanboy dude. you compared a 800 with a 1000, that's why people look at it as a jokes :) this bike supposed to compete with z900, speed triple 765, mt09, gsx-s750 or duke 790. litre naked bike have their own class.

R i v a l r y R i d e ah gotcha. Yep it is a big difference. I'm really interested in buying an Italian motorcycle just get turned away from the reliability and cost of ownership. I'd like to really feel like this is a much better product than rivals like the aforementioned z900 or fz09. It looks much better but feels much further behind in terms of other areas. What would be your reasons for owning or not owning this?

Akroma Martell I agree with you but it's a beautiful thing to look at on RU-vid :)

Dunkirk Donuts both

Exactly, I just had a conversation on this topic, Beautiful bike no doubt but its smaller than a MT-07, the mt even weighs more and is 2 inches longer with the same wheelbase. Only one place in North Carolina that has a 800 so I can only go sit on the MT and I can say I'm 6ft and 210 lbs and I feel like I'm going to break it. They need to make the 800 bigger to at least the size of the Ducati 821 so normal humans can not look like a giant on a moped..it looks like you will be eye to eye with the bumper of a truck on the road.

dolphin's brain in terms of what?!

Bernard Bernabe everything

PetaBread27 maybe soon and be purchased by an indian company and build bikes there with a partnership with bajaj.