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If I were in a position of needing to sell my collection and pare it down to "one" street bike ... something like this would be a prime choice.

It's light, it's powerful enough, it looks good, the CP2 engine is well proven (darn near bulletproof), the suspension and brakes look promising. YES the Aprilia has more gadgets and more power, but it's more expensive, and reliability/durability are more of a question mark.
 
voyageur said:
You sure about the insurance savings part? While I was looking around, when I checked for CBR500R insurance - I think it was TD (or maybe some other insurance) that mentioned they wouldn't insure that bike. I told them it's not the SS CBR but a sport-tourer. Didn't matter to them.
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I insured my 2016 cbr500r with TD for the past five years so it must have been a different company. They will charge you a lot more than other companies for it though if your not bundling with it.
 
Brian P said:
If I were in a position of needing to sell my collection and pare it down to "one" street bike ... something like this would be a prime choice.

It's light, it's powerful enough, it looks good, the CP2 engine is well proven (darn near bulletproof), the suspension and brakes look promising. YES the Aprilia has more gadgets and more power, but it's more expensive, and reliability/durability are more of a question mark.
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It'd make a really fun track day bike, with that SV kind of friendly power. The forks will likely need pistons or cartridges to work well, but it's still a lot cheaper than total replacement. Definitely lots of value and room to upgrade whatever is important to any given rider at that price...

(Getting smoked by the Aprilias every week might make it less appealing as a race bike, though... ;))
 
Priller said:
It'd make a really fun track day bike, with that SV kind of friendly power. The forks will likely need pistons or cartridges to work well, but it's still a lot cheaper than total replacement. Definitely lots of value and room to upgrade whatever is important to any given rider at that price...

(Getting smoked by the Aprilias every week might make it less appealing as a race bike, though... ;))
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I know several people who have converted FZ07/MT07 to a race bike using the aftermarket kit and (I think) a complete R6 front end. They work pretty well, but I do expect a well-ridden Aprilia to clean up in that class.

Evidently the FZ07 engine makes around 63 rear wheel horsepower in stock form. I know of one that has had a lot of internal engine work, and it makes ... quite a bit more than that. $ $ $

The CP2 engine's bore and stroke: 80.0 x 68.6 mm, and 11.5:1 compression. It's never going to be a high-revving engine with a stroke that long. The Aprilia is 81.0 x 63.93 mm ... and it has a 13.5:1 compression ratio.
 
Same weight as the previous R6, same ergos. They have essentially taken away 50-60 top end hp in exchange for 7-8 lbft.
Should have put the MT09 triple in it instead.
 
ChrisCBR said:
Same weight as the previous R6, same ergos. They have essentially taken away 50-60 top end hp in exchange for 7-8 lbft.
Should have put the MT09 triple in it instead.
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Then it wouldn’t be a middleweight, which is what people are buying.
 
How about the R15? 150cc of track ripping power. Not released in Canada.

 

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Reading over the specs it's slightly larger in every dimension, except seat height is lower, fuel tank is smaller and it's 5 pounds lighter.

The power output difference is interesting, down 43hp but peaking at 8750 instead of 14500, and up 5 ft lbs at 6500 instead of 10500 on the R6.

I'd be curious to see Dyno graphs on both to compare the curves.
 
I wonder if the usd forks will be a fairly simple swap to a mt07, that'd be cool. Possibly without even needing new calipers and rotors and such like you do using r6 usd forks. Obviously the triples would be needed.
 
KWDRZ said:
I wonder if the usd forks will be a fairly simple swap to a mt07, that'd be cool. Possibly without even needing new calipers and rotors and such like you do using r6 usd forks. Obviously the triples would be needed.
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I have no doubt they will match up, but you'd definitely need to bring over the calipers - R7 has radial mounted calipers and MT-07 has axial mounted calipers. It looks like there's a chance that the wheels and rotors are the same, though
 
If you go to the US site they have a kinda cool configurator where it has a detailed 3D model that lets you add six different Yamaha accessories. Like what the late 2000s promised the internet was gonna be like!

 
TwistedKestrel said:
If you go to the US site they have a kinda cool configurator where it has a detailed 3D model that lets you add six different Yamaha accessories. Like what the late 2000s promised the internet was gonna be like!

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Kind of cool. Reminded be a lot of the late 1990's when it took 25 seconds to load a page.

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Also interesting that they have a factory fender eliminator. Presumably that meets standards? If so, why would they sell the long one? If not, how do they get away with selling the short one?
 
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