WSBK » Aprilia presents the RSV4

continued: like the 1098 S. Biaggi as a rider will be very popular with mainland europe and success will help the core scooter market. In the uk (surprise surpise) the best selling Aprilia replica sportsbike was the Haga RSV from !

Good look to them this technology will end up on our road bikes a few years down the line, Aprilia are not afraid of being different, shame they couldn't get Corser

I wouldn't get carried away about the V4 engine configuration. Honda tried for years to beat the Ducati twins with a V4 - remember the RVF? In the end the only way Honda could beat Ducati was to develop their own V twin, the SP1.

I'm not sure about the tail., it looks alittle like GP Honda's, and they are awful. But everything else is superb. And it has single exhaust pipe, not one on each side thank god
It will be sexy on the track, cant hardly wait.
Wonder what BMW is cooking up..

yea but those hondas were 750 remember? thats why the sp1 was born..Plus raw power doesnt prove anything, specially these days..ýts all about the whole package
to say aprilia didnt achieve anything in sbk is crap..it was troy corsers favourite bike (his own words not mine), won races (remember first big bike of a tiny ass company) and if the stupid owners didnt pull the plug on it for the motogp fiasco, it might have done much more..aprilia knows how to develop a bike for sure (except the cube i guess, it had too many gadgets that was ahead of the times that just didnt work) and this sure could be a winner right here. Hope the road going version is somewhat affordable for us mere mortals

I hope they've learned there lesson from the "Cube" and not gone for outright power at the expense of power delivery.... The RSV1000 was an awesome bike and surely would have won (or been damn close!) the championship if it wasn't for the motogp flop....

Ducati have already sold 1500 Desmosedicis so they could easily homologate it if they wanted to. In fact I beleive they have sold far more of them than 1098R's. I would also agree with the comment about not getting over excited about it being a V4. It will be narrower and therefore have a smaller frontal area, also a friendlier power delivery.

Biggest problems with the RC45 were lack of power (in the first season), chronic understeer, front brake binding and team management - they could have won 3 championships instead of the one with John Kocinski.

Still think some people are seriously underestimating BMW!

OOWWW. Lots and lots or variables with this bike. Plenty for Max to tinker with.

Can anyone remind me why the Aprillia pulled their Mille out in 2002? Money?

I just gotta comment on what an amazing thread this is, and that I am no where near qualified to comment on any of all this techy bike talk but that I am impressed, even more so that it isn't Stoner Rossi mud slinging fest. Great job guys and great bike!

I've just sneaked a 10 minute read of MCN The road spec V4 is 25 kg lighter than a Fireblade at 190 kg fully fueled and has 169 bhp at the gearbox. Pricing is said to be around 12k for the Standard bike and 14/15k for a Factory. So slap bang in the Ducati 1098 and 1098s Market,
They claim that the ECU is fully programmable and can be unlocked by race teams to give traction control. A naked Tuono version is on the drawing board,Unfortunately this bike means the end of the Mille RSVR and Mille Factory. What a good job I bought ( at silly discount price) one of the last factory models with all the carbon and Ohlins techno porn then

This reads like a review of a new Australian red wine ! - No perhaps the wine industry uses just a few more superlatives.