Enough of the slow, retro stuff. You want style coupled with performance. Massive performance. If you work on Wall St., or just happen to have a huge wad of cash sitting around, the MV Agusta Cannonball might be your next bike.
The Cannonball goes beyond the standard, superbike-powered, sub-400 lbs Brutale naked by making it lighter and more powerful. MV Agusta Corse warns the Cannonball kit transforms the Brutale into a machine intended “for racing use only,” so we know you won’t try to exploit this beast on the street. Will you? A revised ECU, cylinder head, camshafts, valves and exhaust system (entirely titanium) combine to shed pounds and add 21 hp. You can take this basic kit and customize it further with a number of carbon fiber and aluminum components, including a lower fairing and tail section.
For a minute I thought it was a tricked out gladius….. minus the goofy plastic and a single sided swing arm. Ok correction it is definitely a manly mans version of a gladius. Anybody else seeing the same thing?
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If you feel have to complain about the price – you’re missing the point of such things……and your ego is having it’s own sort of crisis. Pushing limits and exclusivity has its costs.
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Justin, you also can’t hear them if you go far enough!
This bike is for solo riding. I can only imagine how it would handle with a passenger on the back. That’s what Goldwings are for.
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I think sportbikes are the best ones for hauling women around.
What can I say, the speed you lose by not being able to slide your butt off the saddle is replaced by the joy of having a woman’s legs wrapped around your waist. If that’s not a joy for you, you must be married.
Sorry.
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You have a good point…wonder if my wife would mind me taking a girlfriend for a ride?
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I have a few u can borrow get them out of my hair…
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Love it. Can’t afford it nor the insurance but love it anyway.
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So where does the line form? Anyone who thinks this is outmatched by a Speed Triple ( a nice bike) hasn’t experienced the sheer blinding awesomeness of MV.
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That’s what a bike is supposed to look like.
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Nope, it ain’t practical, and nope, it ain’t a bargain bike. But I’m pretty sure that’s not the point. I damn sure can’t see myself buying one, though, if I had Jay Leno money there would be one in my garage. Lighten up folks and enjoy the eye candy. Admit it, that thing would be FUUUUNNNN to ride.
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You eat your pork and beans…
Everytime I’m in the presence of a MV I get it. Pictures don’t do them justice.
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The purpose of this bike is to showcase the best of MV Agusta’s BOLT-ON aftermarket parts. They don’t want to just sell this model, but sell the much higher margin kits to convert standard Brutale’s to this addition or a mix-and-match version somewhere between.
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Justin (first post), why would you want to hang a passenger on the back? I have a VFR 800. The pillion cover has never been off. With a pre-menopausal wife and two teenage daughters, I consider my bike to be a life raft in a raging sea of hormones. I have enough company at home, and I’m thankful for some alone time in the saddle. Maybe someday I can afford the Cannonball. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to share it. I guess my wife is right, I’m a selfish pig. Oh well….
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if you go fast enough, you can’t even hear them talking
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Plain and simple…
Butt jewelry for the ego impaired…
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Are you saying that you aren’t concerned with the appearance of your ride?
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Damn that’s gorgeous. It would be the least practical thing in my garage (my Tuono is getting offended), but sure would look good there. The lack of a price tag is a bit scary though.
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Amazing to me that so many people can find only negative things to say about such a beautiful high performance machine. Enjoy your KFC and whine about the lack of centerstand on every single sportbike.
BTW, I ride a Speed Triple, could have had a leftover standard Brutale for the same $.
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No list price?
Regardless, thanks, but no thanks. I can imagine how tough it would be to get things like replacement air filters. Plus, I’d never buy a chain-driven motorcycle that lacks a center stand.
I guess I don’t fit the target demographic …
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OK…so….you wouldn’t buy this piece of rolling sculpture because you don’t know how to find a replacement airfilter….uh, yea, right. Snapperhead!
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18k plus
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Billy … yup, I will only buy a bike that I can ride and maintain. Which is to say I ain’t a poser. If that makes me a “snapperhead” then I am proud to be one.
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Oh, so only posers would ride this MV Agusta? You’re saying that there are no MVA owners that do their own maintenance? I guess everyone to his own. You’re prolly better off on the Honda or Harley.
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Air Filter? I’m fairly certain I couldn’t keep myself out of jail long enough to worry about replacing it if I owned that bike.
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paddock stands
why haul that weight around with you when you can leave it in the garage?
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“Honey, I planned on buying you that new Brutale, but your riding buddies said to go with the Kawi Z1000…Said you would be much happier with it…” Ive got a bucket of chicken that says you would go straight to your buddies’ houses and choke them out, one by one…That bike is amazing. Just pricey, that’s all.
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You spodes are Jealous, that is a beautiful unbelievably powerful machine
Price aside everyone of you would love to have it.
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Soooooo True!!!!
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Looks like it went so fast the headlight melted.
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How quaint.
Meet my scruffy Roulette Green Speedie named “Trpldog” on Glendora Mountain Road at 7AM.
British Beef over Chef-Boy-R Dee ravioli.
They can’t even fix the leaning tower correctly.
Hoo Doggie!
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+1 on that, Tripdog. Gimme a new speed3, say in matte black, with flyscreen and an Arrow 3->1 pipe.
Stll have plenty of change left for bail.. hehehe….
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@BillyG – That’s funny! So true!
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Buy a Kawi Z1000 and pocket the difference.
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WHAT!B-KING will destroy that Z-1000 $8999.00 AND pocket the rest!!
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Yea that Kawasaki has nothing on the B-King saw one running with a Busa ZX-14 in the 1/4 mile.Kawasaki is nice but wont sell well til all those are gone $8999.00..
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Until you have to turn the B-King (it’s huge). Apples to Oranges imo.
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True dump the exhaust but some will take the power over the weight..Neither one of them are roadrace material..
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Why didn’t they grind the ugly old passenger peg mounts off the frame. Wart on the face of a princess.
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Cause sometimes ya gotta scare the crap out of your passenger to feel truly satisfied! ; )
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Maybe the aforementioned custom tail section includes pillion mount.
after all, what’s the point in owning a 400-lb phallic symbol if you can’t get a woman to sit on it?
for the record, I like this bike. Hey, it’s got a tube-steel frame, no lower fairing, and a headlight bucket. That’s retro, innit?
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Those are the mounts for the titanium/carbon fiber Gucci saddle bag option!
WANT!
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