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Aprilia RSV4-RR Superbike - Customer Clone

A close copy of Max Biaggi's race-winning factory bike.Aprilia is following its established strategy in 125/250GP racing by offering customers around the world the benefits of its development season in World Superbike via the RSV-RR, a close copy of Max Biaggi's race-winning factory bike which the Italian manufacturer is making available now for €45,000 (approximately $64,200). The Aprilia Racing workshops at Noale will build 20 examples of this bike for 2010, containing the exact same in-house electronics package as the works racer, incorporating traction control, launch control, engine braking control, datalogging, etc. But the RSV4-RR has a slightly lower engine specification, producing 190 horsepower at 13,500 rpm, which positions it halfway between the Biaggi bike's 210 horsepower at 14,500 rpm, and the 180-horsepower Superstock racer which Ayrton Badovini took to a convincing victory on a one-off ride for Aprilia at the FIM Superstock World Cup's Imola round in September. Badovini decisively beat future champion Xavi Simeon on his Ducati 1198 on their rivals' home track, only to be disqualified because the Aprilia factory team hadn't read the rules closely enough, and didn't realize they weren't allowed to use lightweight titanium fasteners and other hardware in this streetbike-derived category.inline_mediumwraptextrightDraped in Biaggi replica body work, the RSV4-RR certainly looks outwardly identical to the works factory racebike.28344286/features/146_1004_aprilia_rsv4_rr_superbike146_1004_12_z+aprilia_RSV4+RR.jpgTrue


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