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First ride: Aprilia RS4 125
On 31/05/2011 in Road Tests: First Rides
For the first time on a sports 125, Aprilia now have a bike that features a four-stroke engine
money, the RS4 is the clear winner in the looks department.The new bike is certainly a stunner and it is no surprise that it owes those looks to its big SBK winning big sister, the 1000cc RSV4 APRC.The bike’s fairings were designed in a wind tunnel
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Talkback: Two Nortons for TT 2013
On 12/12/2012 in forum
What they're not telling you is that one bike will have a Honda engine, a Suzuki chassis and Aprilia everything else and the other bike will...
will be: (if the same spec as last year) A Spondom Chassis and the Aprilia RSV4 engine similar to a CRT spec. This is a great marketing ploy and will guarantee to help the Norton name since Steve Hislop won the Senior TT on a Norton beating Carl Fogarty
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First shot of Honda’s proddy racer
On 28/05/2013 in Motorcycle news: New bikes
It’s a prototype for the production version of the existing prototype racers. Clear?
spin-off of the production racer, will be a road-going version – likely to be the most expensive showroom machine that’s ever been offered by a major manufacturer. This is effectively reversing what Aprilia did when it turned the RSV4 road bike
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Rossi tests the Ducati GP12 at Mugello
On 27/05/2011 in Motorcycle racing news: Moto GP
Valentino Rossi laps the Tuscan circuit in his second test on board the Ducati Desmosedici GP12
with the Aprilia WSB team. It was reported that the WSB-spec Aprilia RSV4, with Max Biaggi at the controls, was able to sit in the slipstream of the MotoGP machine comfortably - giving an insight into the expected speed of the new 1,000cc generation.
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Valencia WSB Results
On 05/04/2009 in forum
Honda CBR1000RR 13.824 sec 6. Yukio Kagayama JPN Suzuki Alstare Brux GSX-R1000 14.562 sec 7. Tom Sykes GBR Yamaha WSB YZF R1 15.155 sec 8. Max Biaggi ITA Aprilia Racing RSV4 16.316 sec 9. Shane Byrne GBR Sterilgarda Ducati 1198 20.361 sec 10. Broc Parkes
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Talkback: Fancy a peek at the 2011 Triumph Tiger XC?
On 01/10/2010 in forum
"safely and be reliable all day long" like lets say..... A BMW S1000RR ? and later not be cut down to 140hp for street duty cause it would self grenade itself pullling 186hp like the 2k11 "civilian" RSV4 day in and day out ? Also, if and thats IF they are allowed to
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Talkback: Ducati 1199 Panigale . UK Prices.
On 06/01/2012 in forum
£24k! Wow Im defiantly doing something wrong with my career!
unrealistic. My bet is Ducati goes bust within 12 months and needs a government bail out. Oh and the bike looks rubbish, must prefer the Aprilia RSV4 With All that money, still can't get my girl a ride on it... Huge diff between the base and the tricolor Well
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Talkback: Gresini reveals CRT bike set-up
On 17/11/2011 in forum
yeah I reckon this CRT thing is going to be all right. I still dont get the claiming rule concept, seems wierd to me, but its already gettin...
Dennis Noyes on twitter yesterday saying something about an RSV4 engined FTR (I think) having testing with carbon brakes and some other trick bits. I *THINK* they can pretty much do what they like with the internals as long as the bore and stroke
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WSB: Valencia Results and Rider Comment
On 06/04/2009 in Motorcycle news : Racing news
Get the news, results, rider comment and championship standings from this weekend's WSB races
. Haslam L. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 13.824; 6. Kagayama Y. (JPN) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 14.562; 7. Sykes T. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 15.155; 8. Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 16.316; 9. Byrne S. (GBR) Ducati 098R 20.361; 10. Parkes B. (AUS) Kawasaki ZX 10R 23
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Talkback: No Speed Triple 1200 say Triumph
On 01/02/2012 in forum
I reckon they are missing a trick, not everyone wants a physically small bike, i have a 955i Speedie, and would love a bigger engined one bu...
shame because though the engine and computer gadgets were fantastic, I like to ride all day.I then test rode the Triumph. A great naked bike also with a fine engine and though not as small as the RSV4 could still be bigger AND lighter.Do these people
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