Aprilia of the Week : Back in Time

This week we are going back into time for a little history lesson. This is the Aprilia 500cc 2-stroke from the 2000 gp500 season. The drivers Jeremy McWilliams and Tetsuya Harada didn't have a very succesful season. Altough McWilliams(14th overall) got 3rd 2 times. Harada(16th overall) never made it to the podium. The Aprilia team finished 4th in the constructors standings with 94 points. This bike was the last 2 stroke 500cc racing bike that Aprilia has ever build.

Lorenzo on top during pre-season tests

Jorge Lorenzo has been leading the scoreboards during the pre-season tests on the Catalunya track. After a rainy morning Lorenzo clocked the fastest lap during the dry afternoon session. His former team member Barbera followed closely on his Team Toth Aprilia. The rest of the top 5 finished the test with almost identical laptimes.

1) Jorge Lorenzo
Fortuna Aprilia -1.46.9
2) Hector Barbera
Team Toth -1.47.2
3 ) Julian Simon
Repsol Honda - 1.47.8
4 ) Shuhei Aoyama
Repsol Honda - 1.47.8
5 ) Alex de Angelis
Master MVA Aspar - 1.47.9

3 Pegaso Factory Reviews

Several Italian websites have tested the new Pegaso Factory. I must say the Pegaso Factory is very beautiful and looks like a very fun bike. And it only costs €7109 compared to the €6.490 standard Pegaso. The reviews are really positive and have a big selection of nice pictures. They are all in Italian but with babelfish you can translate them into English.

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Team Aprilia Fortuna presentation

Team Fortuna presented their riders and the new Aprilia RSW250 in Madrid. The riders for the 2007 season will be 2006 250cc champion Jorge Lorenzo and Alex Debón. I hope the 2007 season will be just as succesful as the 2006 one. Check out a short video and pictures of the presentation here

Ice racing swedish Aprilia style

Olof Eriksson is a young talent from Sweden and he will be riding his SXV in the Swedish championship this year. But in the winter times Sweden is covered in snow so there is no way to do any supermoto testing. But that doesn't stop Olof. He threw some studded tyres on a RXV and went out to play. I'm glad he took a cameraman with him so we can also join the fun. Go check out the RXV ice racing video here (right click save as!) (thanks to Olof and Nordimotor)

Aprilia of the Week: Project RSVR550

This week another special. It's an RS250 with a SXV 550 engine. How sweet is that. Well very sweet. You take brand new a SXV 550 and an RS250 and together they make the worlds first RSVR 550. After 3 months of hard work the result is amazing. For all the Details about the build check out the project page

Here's a list of some of the features of the bike:

-RS250 frame
-SXV 550 engine
-Tyga Honda RS250 fairings
-Kawasaki ZX10 seat unit
-Ohlins rear suspension
-Carbon fuel tank
-Custom exhaust system
-Custom engine mount/cradle
-Custom Oil Tank

Aprilia starts Supermoto cup in the Benelux

After the big succes of the Supermoto cup in Italy Aprilia decided to start anoter Supermoto cup in the Benelux(also in Germany). Together with the KNMV(Dutch motorsport federation) Aprilia is organizing 11 races along the normal Dutch Supermoto Championship. For this cup they are offering a special package. A discount on the SXV 450 (without registration for the road) and a special 500 euro racing package wich includes:

-a leather Aprilia suit
-supermoto boots
-goggles
-back protector
-gloves

Racing in the Aprilia Supermoto cup only requires a KNMV license and no special expensive racing licenses. If you want more info about the cup check out Racesport