which would you expect to accelerate quicker?

Had an er progressive ride coming back from the east coast a few months back with a guy on a 675..Nothing in it speed wise..

But the Triumphs are tiny for someone bigger than Ronnie Corbett..The Aprilias are a proper size bike..

I bought my RSV for the sound, the handling, the USABLE! power and the prestige. I've raced my mate's 05' R6 with Yoshi slip-on and we were neck and neck till about 100mph when i started to pull on him. This is of course after having to short shift badly thru first (which gave him just enough time to hit 24,000 rpm on the R6, which is right in the meat of his powerband) to avoid flipping the ape...this was over a year ago and I have a better handle on the power since (plus a hooked airbox), I know I'd could take him now..we've also only done one run ever....fact of the matter is, if all you care about is top speed and you just want to be another guy in the pack buy a jap bike for those reasons...however the 675 is totally **** and i want one...but that's another story.

Mods:

-port & polish by corse superbikes
-"race" intake cams..the part # escapes me
-03' heads
-full twin akro system
-hooked airbox
-PC3..that I'm sure after the airbox could use a retune, but it runs great!

mark58 said:

Had an er progressive ride coming back from the east coast a few months back with a guy on a 675..Nothing in it speed wise..

But the Triumphs are tiny for someone bigger than Ronnie Corbett..The Aprilias are a proper size bike..

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true...apes really are the proper size...everyone is always telling me "dude your bike is huge!". No my bike is the correct size, your bike is just small. Id rather feel like I'm sitting inside the bike and not on top of it. :thumbup

What???
Prestige? What prestige is there in owning an Aprilia RSV? In the UK my 03 model RSV Mille would fetch about £2500, a 2003 Ducati 999 would be worth twice that!

If they were so prestigious they'd be worth something- a similar 954 Fireblade on an 03 would be nearly £4,000!

The Aprilia is an old bus, and I think too many people look at them with their rose tinted specs.
1000cc and it gets whipped by sports 600's, 675's, 750 4 cylinders and even an 848 Ducati!
Sure, it's not a bad bike- if it was I wouldn't still have one...

..but it's just an old bike guys. A bike like any other, and perhaps familiarity breeds contempt?
All these people buy Jap bike as they know they're good!

Millions of people can't be wrong! I love 24,000 rpm!!!! Love it!!!!!!

jon_melson said:

What???
Prestige? What prestige is there in owning an Aprilia RSV? In the UK my 03 model RSV Mille would fetch about £2500, a 2003 Ducati 999 would be worth twice that!

If they were so prestigious they'd be worth something- a similar 954 Fireblade on an 03 would be nearly £4,000!

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really twice that?? wow...not in the US. Anyways, I know what you're saying, but in the states an aprilia does carry a lot of prestige because no one has one. Riding a ducati here in the states basically says all you care about is your image and for me an aprilia means so much more....besides a jap 600 will own most 999's anyways....but again. Jap bikes are like school in summertime, NO CLASS.

BB1000 said:

Down to gearing...

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deffo. Just sold a 675.

jon_melson said:

The Aprilia is an old bus

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Well, I've just sold the supposed bike of the year in any rag which you care to read, and it was big fun, I put over 6k on it in four months (Street Triple R, full system Arrow.) In BIKE it edged out the 09 Blade. Either way both the blade and the striple meet your criteria: they're new and they rev. With one third of the dosh I got for the R, I picked up a black modded Falco. A bus, right? I took it out in the twisties down here where the R excelled and guess what?

I was faster on the Falco because it suited me better. Thats the point: get two same ability riders and put one on a set up he loves and the other on a bike which isnt quite right for him but newer. You know whats going to happen. Part of my job involves testing bikes so I've been lucky enough to ride most of the new ones. There's just so much hype and spin out there, every time you ride a new one put all prejudices to one side and feel what the bike is telling you, forget all the crap about the latest must have. Many a good tune is played on an old fiddle (luckily for me lol).

I've ridden a triple R and 675 and they have a fantastic engine. the power they put out is incredible for such a small engine size.
I can well beleive that one of these would slaughter a millie.
I had a Ducati 748 before my current millie R and it was easily as quick on acceleration.
The millie is a brilliant bike for the money thats why i brought mine.
To buy another make of bike with full ohlins and brembos would cost 3 times more.

My CBR600RR will do a 1/4 Mile in 10.6 seconds as I have done it when competing but on the track a new 675 seems just as fast as my tuned bike when getting off the line and pulls harder than mine out of slower corners.

aPeMunky said:

I would imagine that a 4 year old Gsxr K5 1000 has a similar mid range with stacks more top end to an rsv

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More mid range, more torque and more top end I'm affraid:



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