2T Institute wrote:The RGV a crap bike eh well it won all bar 1 title with riders such as Troy Corser, Mat Mladin, Brock Parkes, Kev Curtain and Ant West in stock form, as Graeme Morris(600cc Supersport champion) told me the NSR handled well but the RGV made more top end.

It really depends what you're allowed to mod, in any champinship with restricted regs there are going to be winners and losers.
But an RGV can make good top end power, despite what seems to happen on the RGV forum, Matt (who raced most 250 proddy bikes when they were raced properly) reckoned without cracking a Dremel out an NSR would struggle to out do a well setup stock vj22 motor. But top end power isn't everything and it matters less and less as the riders get less talented plus the design of the motor itself is rubbish and it's an absolute pain to work on.

Dave Reynolds Aprilia pulls like a train, but it's near unusable. I know people say 2t's don't work at lower revs but what we (NSR) owners mean is they don't pull hard, they still work. But Dave's Aprilia doesn't, if you're stupid enough to have the rev counter down below about 9000rpm it just doesn't accelerate and it's so vicious slipping the clutch at big lean isn't an inviting prospect.
Even so, it's SO quick I was still 2 seconds faster on it than I was on my own bike at Snetterton despite only riding it for 6 laps and never putting in a lap I was happy with, every single lap I either went in too hot, go booged down and more than once I had to back off down the back straight so as not to re-overtake someone who'd lapped me. Yet I did plenty of slower (far slower) laps on my NSR that I felt were OK, they weren't fast but I didn't make any mistakes.

It's a shame, that Aprilia chassis is sublime.
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