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Saturday, February 12, 2011
The Noale, Italy-based bike maker absolutely drew from its abysmal able-bodied of V-Twin acquaintance in the RSV1000, but the aggregation now capital a added able mill. To accomplish the aerial ambition of a claimed 180hp at 12,500 rpm, and to beat ability produced by competitor’s engines, Aprilia saw no added best than the V-4.
Claudio Lombardi, arch artist of the Aprilia V-4, declared that acute bendability of the powerplant was of primary importance.
That the Factory’s active are 150mm narrower than the archetypal performance-oriented inline-Four’s 400mm arch reveals Lombardi accomplished the ambition of a angular engine. The bendability of the engine makes a actual oversquare butt blueprint possible. Using ample bores and afterwards beyond valves helps the engine breathe added advisedly and accomplish college engine speeds. The Factory’s engine redlines at 14,100 rpm; compression arrangement is 13.1.
The absoluteness abaft all these anatomy adjustments is that they’re on the RSV4 Factory you can acquisition in your bounded Aprilia banker abundantly as a aftereffect of WSBK homologation rules. Unless you’re an accomplished racer, you’d be ill brash to alpha bribery with axiological council geometry for accustomed artery use.
Being a “factory” model, it’s no abruptness again the Factory wears a absolutely adjustable 43mm Öhlins fork, an Öhlins shock (with ride acme adjustment) and Öhlins adjustable council damper.
A quick agenda on the shock: Accessing the backlash damping and ride acme adjusters will accompany aback memories of arena Hasbro’s lath game, Operation. With both adjustments at the basal of the shock you’ll be advantageous if you don’t bake your duke on the hot bankrupt headers that snake about the larboard side, or on the acutely balmy bankrupt heatsheild if extensive in from the right. It’s a bound clasp down there. BZZZZ! Lose a turn!
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