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Club Aprilia Day - Pictures

#1 Post by D-Rider » Tue May 26, 2009 2:29 pm

Ready to load up:
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Packed and ready for the off (camera packed too ... phone pic):
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The venue:
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The RSV4:
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Prospective buyer offers to trade for her orange juice (she was the only one who got a ride on it!):
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Paddy tries it for size (calm down, calm down):
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Reports suggest Max has been overdoing the pasta:
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What we learned about Falco Mirrors ......
A Falco (named Daphne ... I kid you not) sporting US market mirrors:
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Pete's old nail sporting standard European mirrors:
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.... looks as though you might be able to see more than your elbows with the 'merkin mirrors.

Oscarpinch's haul from the raffle .... he'd gone by this point:
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Pete won a rather posh Aprilia jacket .... which had become Paddy's by the time we went home .... part of a deal involving some 54mm TBs !


Early morning view from my tent (looking away .... fortunately):
(my tent being the epicentre of a group hallucination from which people mistakenly believed snoring noises to have been generated on the scale of a herd of big game from the Serengeti)
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Pete preparing coffee for me (it's good to have staff):
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Tutu Oh no's (or was that 2 Tuonos?):
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Pete's Falco with Davina's Monster (It's ok - it's not a picture of Paddy with his kecks off):
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Some lonely Fut Futs:
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This is what happens when you fit a Mille 2into1into2 renegade exhaust to a Falco:
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This is then followed by D-Rider spotting said damage
Followed by Pete ripping it from his bike in an act of despair and chucking it in a bin
Followed by D-Rider thinking "that'll clean up nicely and should be salvageable"
Followed by said hugger travelling home to Coventry rather than the swamplands from whence it had started it's journey.
Moral of the story .... if you want some goodies for your bike, tell Pete that his are broken and sure enough you'll end up taking them home.
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#2 Post by Syltiz » Tue May 26, 2009 3:29 pm

Off-topic but i like the Oz wheels :smt002

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#3 Post by Aladinsaneuk » Tue May 26, 2009 3:32 pm

mutters


Let's face it, you wouldn't go to a nurse to get good advice on a problem with a Falco - you'd choose an Engineer or a mechanic...


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#4 Post by paddyz1 » Tue May 26, 2009 4:44 pm

Nice one for posting. I wish i had my camera with me but i had borrowed it to the daughter.

It was good to have staff.... :smt002

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#5 Post by tommy » Tue May 26, 2009 5:48 pm

Wish I could have gone. Bike was still in bits, and i've only just come out of plaster. Next year though, I'll be there :smt001

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#6 Post by MartDude » Tue May 26, 2009 6:20 pm

The Futuras weren't lonely - just exclusive :smt065
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#7 Post by Aladinsaneuk » Tue May 26, 2009 6:26 pm

Welcome mart!

And very exclusive that futura club!


Let's face it, you wouldn't go to a nurse to get good advice on a problem with a Falco - you'd choose an Engineer or a mechanic...


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#8 Post by D-Rider » Tue May 26, 2009 7:41 pm

Syltiz wrote:Off-topic but i like the Oz wheels :smt002
:smt053
Cheers Dominic .... from a load of photos including a good number of the V4, I wasn't expecting my OZs to be singled out !

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#9 Post by Falcopops » Thu May 28, 2009 3:13 am

Just a note on the mirrors.

I got a set from a fellow AF1 member in the states and they were exactly the same as those on my UK model.

Personally I dunno If the longer ones look so good.

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#10 Post by D-Rider » Thu May 28, 2009 10:38 am

Falcopops wrote:Just a note on the mirrors.

I got a set from a fellow AF1 member in the states and they were exactly the same as those on my UK model.

Personally I dunno If the longer ones look so good.
Yeah - Littlecheeze on the AF1 forum also said that he didn't think those longer ones are what are fitted to the US bikes ... so it's a bit confusing ....

I guess the longer mirrors may be a bit like double bubble screens - don't look as good but are a lot more practical.
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#11 Post by DavShill » Thu May 28, 2009 7:43 pm

Looks like a great weekend fella's, sorry I missed it. Great to see so many Falcos and the weather was fantastic. This year looks like breaking the trend of wet Falco meets.

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#12 Post by D-Rider » Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:39 pm

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Falcopops wrote:Just a note on the mirrors.

I got a set from a fellow AF1 member in the states and they were exactly the same as those on my UK model.

Personally I dunno If the longer ones look so good.
Yeah - Littlecheeze on the AF1 forum also said that he didn't think those longer ones are what are fitted to the US bikes ... so it's a bit confusing ....

I guess the longer mirrors may be a bit like double bubble screens - don't look as good but are a lot more practical.
Well it looks as though we've got to the bottom of the long-mirror conundrum. Westy, the guy whose Falco was wearing them, has done some investigation. He bought his from AF1 but has just posted this:
Westy from Club Aprilia Forum wrote: OK guys, Just visited AF1 racing shop. (working away at the moment supposed to be in Ireland ended up in the States) The long stork mirrors as they call them are no longer available in the States, (Aprilia has told Steve there that they are for Europe only) He has given me the part numbers and informed me that they are the RS125 mirrors.
You can get these from your local dealer now guys.
Here's the part numbers.
1 x OEM Aprilia LH Mirror -- Long Stalk -852152

1 x OEM Aprilia RH Mirror -- Long Stalk -852151
I've looked these part numbers up on the Ultimate Parts website (the revamp of the Aprilia Yorkshire site) http://www.ultimateparts.net/ and they are shown for the 2006 - 2007 RS125 (might also be for later bikes but the website doesn't list newer models). The earlier 125s use different part numbers.
There are 2 sets of part numbers for the 2006-2007 RS125 mirrors so I guess the numbers that Westy quotes are the longer ones .... and they are the cheaper of the 2 sets.

BTW the Falco ones are different part numbers.

TBH I'd like to look out for a second hand set but as both sets seem to be fitted to the same bike, I can't see that you'd ever know whether you were buying the long or the short ones until they turned up.
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#13 Post by paddyz1 » Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:50 am

I shall confirm this when i look at the daughters RS125 but you can see pics here

https://www.ridersite.com/viewtopic.php?t=1224

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