Technology is a many splendored thing. Just look at the ways in which technology has shaped our lives: written letters have given way to emails, cell phones have (almost) made landlines a thing of the past, and who needs a map when you've got a GPS? In many ways, technology has made once arduous tasks more convenient.
Yet the internal combustion engine and the method by which it delivers its power to the road has remained largely the same for the past century. A power transfer device of some sort distributes the power from the crankshaft to a set of constant mesh gears which then distributes that forward motion to the driven wheel or wheels (over simplified of course). It's been the same for ages. And as the saying goes; if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Right?
Wrong. At least according to Aprilia. There are some drawbacks to the conventional method of forward motion transfer, and borrowing a rather new technology from the four-wheeled spectrum, Aprilia has equipped its new Mana 850 with a CVT, or Continuously Variable Transmission. We'll get more in-depth with the CVT later, but let's switch gears (pun intended) and talk about the rest that the Mana has to offer.
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