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In 1987 a redesigned version was entered in the World Championship ridden by Ezio Gianola; since 1988 the new bikes were manufactured also for customer teams. The Honda RS125R has won nine World Championship titles for riders, with Loris Capirossi , Dirk Raudies , Haruchika Aoki , Emilio Alzamora , Dani Pedrosa , Andrea Dovizioso and Thomas ...
The Aprilia RS 125 is a race motorcycle manufactured by Aprilia to race in the Grand Prix motorcycle World Championship, built to replace the old Aprilia AF1. It was debuted in 1991, and it had many upgrades since. The bike won ten World Championship (one rebranded as Derbi and one as Gilera).
In New Zealand the rules have developed a slightly different classification system of bikes, with the maximum engine size in Formula 4; two strokes up to 100 cc water-cooled or 125 cc air-cooled and 4-strokes up to 150 cc water-cooled and Formula 5; 50 cc 2-strokes and 100 cc 4-strokes. The rules over what else can be used in the building of ...
The bike also has a vacuum fuel tap on the tank. Aprilia changed to radial four-piston brake calipers and added braided brake lines. In 2008, Aprilia changed the electronics from Nippon- Denso to a EFI Technology ECU and introduced the new Dell'Orto 28 mm VHST CD carburetor to meet the more stringent EURO3 emissions standards .
Pocketbike racing, known as MiniMoto, is a professional, internationally sectioned sport. It is raced by both youth and adults, on specialized, high performance machines. Several notable MotoGP racers and champions first raced in MiniMoto, including Valentino Rossi , Loris Capirossi , Nobuatsu Aoki , and Daijiro Kato . [ 13 ]
The Aprilia RS4 125 (sold as the RS125 since 2016) [1] is a 125 cc class sportbike manufactured by Italian motorcycle firm Aprilia. The four-stroke RS4 125 replaces the extremely popular RS125 two-stroke race replica in Aprilia's lineup. The bike is based on the four-stroke version of the Derbi GPR125. [5]
Superbike racing is a category of motorcycle racing that employs highly modified production motorcycles, as opposed to MotoGP in which purpose-built motorcycles are used. The Superbike World Championship is the official world championship series, though national Superbike championships are held in many countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, Australia and Canada.
For works Motocross bikes, there was an additional M suffix. In the late 1980s, Honda began to enter its production motorcycles in various Superbike, or production-based, racing series, such as the new FIM Superbike World Championship. The most successful of these was the VFR750R, which eventually became better known by its model number, RC30 ...