JP1
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Reged: 07/12/2006
Posts: 20
Loc: Croydon
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Sorry to jump in like this but I've just buzzed back from the UK track test of Aprilia's RSV4 Factory at a sunny Silverstone. I thought some of you might like to know how good it was!
http://www.superbike.co.uk/news/Aprilia_RSV4_track_launch_news_282283.html
They'll be more in the mag of course but it's something to be going along with. Maybe it was all the excitement or maybe it was doing 100mph into a head wind on the Street Triple all the way back down the M40 but I've got a terrible headache - I'm going for a lie down!
Cheers all
JP
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chappers
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 31/12/2006
Posts: 6701
Loc: Mind your own business
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Nice one JP of all the new crop of bikes it's the only one that has been of any real interest to me. If I had 14k burning ahole in my pocket I'd be trying to get a test ride.
I was at Imoto today having a new swing arm fitted to my RSV and when I arrived they were ontheir way to Silverstone to pick up the demo bike and aparently the first customer to order his bike got a free trackday.
BTW Imoto never ever met such freindly, polite people. I went in to have a recall job carried out on a bike they didn't sell, the job took 3 times longer than they were paid for and I was treated like Royalty.
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chappers
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 31/12/2006
Posts: 6701
Loc: Mind your own business
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I've just read the report again you lucky lucky Beep beep beeep. 
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tripod_dave
member
Reged: 28/01/2007
Posts: 121
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Saw one on the road last weekend: looks and sounds fantastic in the flesh.
Can't wait for the group test - looks like a real winner.
Having just read the full article in Superbike I'd just like to add one thing though: if JP is looking forward an even higher spec 'R' version he's going to be disappointed. The 'R' is the cooking version and will go on sale for about 2,500 less than the 'factory' and will be minus the Ohlins suspension etc.
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Biggles
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 05/05/2007
Posts: 3089
Loc: Orion arm of the milky way
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Not sure this adds much, but was at PDQ and they had one on the dyno - rear wheel figure was a surprisingly modest 152BHP.
Great looking bike, with a lot of fantastic kit on it as standard, except of course for the zaust, which is pants.
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adowds
old hand
Reged: 21/11/2006
Posts: 749
Loc: Croydon
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I've only had a quick spin on one (home and back on Tuesday) but I have to say, within the confines of that, it felt very sweet indeed. Tiny, fast, agile, controllable, with super suspension and top brakes. Amazing noise.
Only complaint was the brake lever span didn't come back enough for my stumpy hand and ruined wrist.
There are power and torque dyno curves on the main site, against an R1 and 1198S on the same dyno (BSD) and same day. Check 'em out.
http://www.superbike.co.uk/news/Aprilia_RSV4_dyno_power_graph_news_284083.html
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Biggles
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 05/05/2007
Posts: 3089
Loc: Orion arm of the milky way
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Drop it over one evening I will do a comparative against a GSXR.
Same day, same dyno great way to go. RSV4 is much more as I would have expected. Very linear too.
The one at PDQ was new, so maybe a tight engine, they were only doing a check run but it still caused a few raised eyebrows.
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kneedowndave
enthusiast
Reged: 18/08/2008
Posts: 273
Loc: Darenth valley
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I sat on one at the Canary wharf show. Really narrow, even compared to my little R6. Looks great apart from the exhaust but who keeps the standard can anyway. At £15000 not something I would buy.
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