Take the traditional streetfighter formula — no fairing, upright bars — and apply it to one of the fastest, most technologically advanced superbikes ever made — the Aprilia RSV4. What do you get? This Aprilia Tuono V4R.

Canyon carving, aka tickling your knee, isn't for the motorcycling noob. Many a would-be Valentino has found himself soaring headlong into the Santa Ana winds, on the way to being smashed into anchovy paste on the granite face of a San Jacinto batholith. Here's how not to do that.

What can Aprilia's flagship superbike do better than the Space Shuttle? Stoplight races. The company's 180-hp RSV4 gets from zero to 60 mph two seconds quicker than it takes NASA's soon-to-be-retired spaceamino to do the same. Hey, rocket scientists, put that in your slide rules and perform a range of analog…

The R35 Nissan GT-R proved one way to beat the world beaters is with better tech, not more power. Applying the same technique to half the wheels, Aprilia's RSV4 can launch, slide, shift and hold back wheelies for the rider. Godzillabike?

The answer: Restoring an original 1937 Aprilia Berlina is very, very hard (but worth every wad of $100 bills and gallon of sweat). I visited the legendary Conrad Stevenson's Alfa Romeo shop last weekend and found this work-of-art-in-progress there.

The Ducati motorcycle Tom Cruise rides in those annoying ESPN commercials isn't really a big, bad Ducati. It's just an Aprilia sportbike disguised as one. Wes Siler of Hell for Leather Magazine explains why.

Earlier this week, Hell For Leather published the very first review of the Aprilia RSV4 R, the race-bred, V4-engineed Italian superbike that, at $15,999, you can actually afford. What's it like? Challenging. [HFL]

Stop/Action, an art exhibit put together by three of my friends and I, and opening tomorrow in Brooklyn, is a frozen portrait of an explosive motorcycle ride.

These pictures prove once and for all Shia LaBeouf is undeserving of Megan Fox's attentions in Transformers 2. More relationship-dominating Megan in leather, with obligatory Aprilia cycle, below.