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08-04-2003, 7:18 PM
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     Join Date: 02-10-2002 Location: Hoosierland, USA
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| Re: The Aprilia Cube to see major changes? Where's your timeline cartoon.....you need to forward it to the author of that article...Prilla dropped the fly-by-wire several races ago......
__________________ Sith Apprentice CBR929 - VFR800 - VFR800 "There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one..." - Joey Dunlop |
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08-04-2003, 7:40 PM
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   Join Date: 08-01-2001 Location: Lost
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| Re: The Aprilia Cube to see major changes? Quote:
This reads like the stuff released at the beginning of the season. | |
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08-04-2003, 8:37 PM
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| Join Date: 11-24-2001 Location: Ireland
Bike(s): CB 1300 Honda Posts: 161
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| Re: The Aprilia Cube to see major changes? Not much hard information there. On the other hand the bike seemed to be progressing very well in the early part of the year, but has recently been going through a bad patch. I don't have much by way of details, other than genralised noises about software funnies leading to throttle control problems and a sense that reaching the weight limit is proving rather harder than they expected. Does anybody have any idea if this likely to lead to changes, and if so of what sort? Could be they may need to try something radical to restore the momentum... |
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08-04-2003, 8:40 PM
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| Join Date: 02-10-2002 Location: Hoosierland, USA
Bike(s): CBR929 - VFR800 - VFR800 Posts: 11,098
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| Re: The Aprilia Cube to see major changes? Quote:
__________________ Sith Apprentice CBR929 - VFR800 - VFR800 "There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one..." - Joey Dunlop | |
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08-04-2003, 8:48 PM
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| Join Date: 11-24-2001 Location: Ireland
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| Re: The Aprilia Cube to see major changes? Fair comment, that was attributed to the fly by wire wasn't it. As was the fall Edwards had early in testing - a momentary lag in shutting down when it spun up which led to a high side. I have to say that's the sort of stuff that would put a dent in your confidence pretty quickly...... |
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08-04-2003, 9:33 PM
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| Join Date: 05-10-2003 Location: Seattle, WA - USA
Bike(s): KTM 950 Adv, FZR400R, SP1 Age: 44 Posts: 1,538
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 | Re: The Aprilia Cube to see major changes? Must have been programmed on WinCE or something like that... |
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08-04-2003, 10:38 PM
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| Join Date: 02-10-2002 Location: Hoosierland, USA
Bike(s): CBR929 - VFR800 - VFR800 Posts: 11,098
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| Re: The Aprilia Cube to see major changes? TCS
__________________ Sith Apprentice CBR929 - VFR800 - VFR800 "There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one..." - Joey Dunlop |
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08-04-2003, 10:43 PM
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   Join Date: 06-13-2001 Location: Raleigh, NC
Bike(s): 2003 BabyRR Age: 30 Posts: 3,986
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 | Re: The Aprilia Cube to see major changes? well, They did have the new chasis and all the last race, but that one was the fireball one and haga crashed his... I totally expect that bike to become competitive... Such a very small effort they have. Whether you'll see GP250 level domination or not, I dunno... But I for sure see them improving each race. And lets face it, the SP1/SP2/RC51, whatever you want to call it, got to be the bike it was because of colin... The guy kicks major a$$ and he'll make that bike a winner... I think so anyway, but I have been accused of being a lot today, so who knows!? |
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08-05-2003, 5:19 AM
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| Join Date: 12-10-2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Bike(s): 2003 954 (fireblade) 149.3 Hp Age: 45 Posts: 5,183
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| Re: The Aprilia Cube to see major changes? Quote:
http://www.fireblades.org/iB_html/up...2-timeline.jpg | |
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08-05-2003, 9:51 AM
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| Join Date: 02-10-2002 Location: Hoosierland, USA
Bike(s): CBR929 - VFR800 - VFR800 Posts: 11,098
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| Re: The Aprilia Cube to see major changes? The starting line snafu was a TCS issue....not related to the FBW throttle....so it got ditched. FBW throttle had its own quirks and was ditched as well....
__________________ Sith Apprentice CBR929 - VFR800 - VFR800 "There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one..." - Joey Dunlop |
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