FAST AF!

Lapping a MotoGP circuit on the TVS Apache RR310 in its most exotic, most powerful form is a bucket list item

- WORDS ABHAY VERMA PHOTOGRAPHY TVS MOTOR, ABHAY VERMA

I've always maintained that sportsbikes are the purest form of motorcycles, built with the singular intent of going fast.

There is something special about crouching behind the fairing, looking through the flyscreen and wringing the throttle to its stop. And turning that sportsbike into a race machine has that intent get purer, as you're get rid of everything that comes in the way of speed, eke out every ounce of energy from the engine and optimise handling, while not giving two hoots about comfort.

So when TVS Motor invited us to ride its Asia One Make race bike based on its Apache RR310, I just had to pull rank and go myself. The RR310 has been around since 2018, and TVS has been using it a race bike in the national racing championship for a while, but four years ago it did something out of the ordinary. TVS Motor announced its own international one-make championship, as a support series to the Asia Road Racing Championship, and turned its flagship Apache into the lightest, most exotic, quickest accelerating and fastest Apache the world had ever seen for the series.