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Originally Posted by Dave
aprilia is a good example of a company that will experiment with configurations to suit the bike's chassis. strictly sticking to four strokes here but the milles and derivatives were twins (which at the time were the dominant layout for that series) the RS3 was an over the top triple on roids', and the new bikes are narrow angle V4. im kinda babbling here but they dont belong on your list.
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They are racing a V2 1000 cc bike against 600 cc I4s so yes, they do belong on this list for now anyway. I hear what you are saying and I agree that Aprillia is better than Buell or Ducati in that respect. I still give the most props to BMW. They are a huge corporation and I believe were a sponsor at one time. They probably could have managed to muscle their way in with a 1200+ cc boxer engined bike if they had wanted to but they chose to build a bike that would be competitive without having a 40+% cc advantage written into the rulebook.