SuperBike Magazine November / December 2020

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32 SuperBikeStandard carbon fibrewings generate 8kg ofvertical downforce at300km/h. They preventfront wheel lift at veryhigh speed and addstability in fast brakingzones.a dedicated pin just for that bike. Theend result is something so linear,crisp and sonorous sounding that thehair on my arms actually stand upthinking about it, it’s that good I kidyou not, it’s like Ferrari special.But what is so different with thisbike? Well as much as I can go onabout the motor and the looks, bythe way which in essence are now 11years almost unchanged except forthe wings and the colour, but are stillevery bit as striking as before. But itis the latest Smart EC 2.0 electronicallymanaged Ohlins NIX 43mmupside down forks and TTX Monoshock, which is also electronicallymanaged, that completely transformthe bike. Aprilia have said that theywould not look at electronic suspensionuntil it reduces lap times, welllike for like, same rider on Mugello,this is good for at least 0.5 second.Now you might say that is nothing butgive any one of the current MotoGPriders 0.5 second which translatesinto 12 seconds over 24 laps and allof a sudden you have someone elsewinning. Jon set the bike into normaltrack mode for me first and laterin the racing mode and we did noteven play too much with the differentlevels of TC, but what I can say is thatthe bike intuitively responds to yourbraking and turn in and then hardon the gas out of a corner the bikejust squats. He changed it into a softroad setting once and although notideal for track riding I’d opt for thaton bumpy mountain roads. I wantedit back on race setting with the PirelliDiablo Super Corsa tyres on. I couldhave ridden all day and I wished Icould have ridden it on a track withhigh speed sweeping bends like EastLondon or Kyalami.In summary: At about R480k it’snot cheap and it finds itself in thecompany of the other exotic bikes likethe Fireblade SP, the Yamaha R1M,The BMW S1000RR M Package andDucati V4S Panigale. Although I havenot ridden all of the others, I feel theAprilia will not have to stand back forany of them and lets not forget the10% capacity advantage it holds, andit easily will be the best sounding.And that is not even being subjective.I’d own one in a heartbeat.Highlights of this model· Electronic Öhlins suspension· Lightest and most powerful RSV4 ever, 217 HP· Fully loaded with tech and carbon
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