VOL. 50 ISSUE 26 JULY 2, 2013
BY ALAN CATHCART
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MILAGRO
I
We rode the
new MV Agusta
F3 800 at the
Misano GP circuit
in Italy. Guess
what? It's good.
t had to happen, sooner
or later. After the acclaim
accorded to the punchier,
torquier, 798cc long-stroke
version of MV Agusta's 675cc
three-cylinder F3 engine in
the 800 Brutale naked bike,
the Italian company has now
followed this up with an F3
800 sportbike version. And
it's already in production.
After riding the new bike
for a full day at the Misano
GP circuit under Italian sunshine, there's only one conclusion to be made: this new
bike is truly the best of both
P39
worlds, combining the slim
build, nimble handling and
appetite for revs of a 600cc
Supersport, with the torque
and rideability of a 1200cc
V-twin.
To create it, MV's R&D
team headed by its Direttore
Tecnico, Marco Cassinelli,
has developed an uprated
version of the 800 Brutale
motor, similarly obtained by
increasing the stroke from
its F3 675 sister bike's 45.9
mm to 54.3 mm, while the
bore size remains unaltered
at 79mm. This has increased
engine performance by 20
hp, or 15 percent, to a peak
of 148 hp/108.8kW at 13,000
