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and v engines have to 'cheat' to keep up with inline 4s.
just like ducrappi, and their 1198cc engine in wsbk that they still call a 1098:lol:lol who do they think they are fooling?:confused::dundun:
 
Read it again. I was referring to weight difference between the two. What I'm saying is that it might not be as easy to explain as we've made it out to be. Perhaps, just maybe, the engineers at Aprilia thought about COG and weight placement fore to aft and came up with a very good solution. The empirical evidence for this comes from the numerous "first ride" posts for the new RSV4 and what they had to say about how the bike handled. In addition they've stated it's closer in size to the R6 than the R1. And I qualified my statement by saying Yamaha's choice to stay with the inline 4 design can probably be contributed not only to R&D costs but to their history with the R1 line, and M1 line, as well. The V-max "Star" motor is designed for that bike, not for sports bikes. It wouldn't work in the R1 now would it? Let's assume Yamaha had to work within the inline-4 parameters. Stating the obvious, hey came up with a pretty novel solution. But to do so, there are compromises which may not be apparent unless you had both engines side by side. Yamaha has a long history with V4 two-stroke GP bikes but went inline 4 with the M1. Again, do a search, pull up some old articles and read why they did that.

We're all just theorizing here so relax and leave the innuendo name calling to the kids, mkay?
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wow PB mag is making drama to sell their rag to R1 haters...they're the only ones talkin bad about it... Hellforleather is buying into it without riding the bike....they just went off my favorites list
yep, who dynos bikes on different days etc.:chair:
no real cred left there when the credible guys left that mag.
 
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