2022 Superbike Shootout | BMW M1000RR vs Ducati Panigale V4 SP2 vs Aprilia RSV4 1100 Factory (4K)
we're here to find out which is the best sports bike of 2007. now we're here to do our 2008 thousand cc group test for 2009. welcome to our thousand cc group test on michael knees and powers a thousand cc superbikes which brings us to 2015 it's the year of the superbike welcome to mcn and our 2017 superbike shootout really changed that much for 2019 um so so superbike test sicily sicily superbike shootout welcome to mcn now first of all i want to thank you for clicking on this video because it's all about superbikes and let's face it nowadays super bikes have become pretty irrelevant bikes like these are too powerful for the road they're too difficult to ride for most people around the track and they become really really expensive so for me to stand here and give you a really worthy superbike comparison test nowadays seems a little bit daft so that's not what i'm going to do because these bikes are so good i mean can you remember probably in even in the naughties with superbikes were at the height of their powers manufacturers made bikes that could easily be improved you know you take an r1 or a zx10 you could put suspension on it tyres brakes and you'd make that bike a lot lot better but nowadays with bike lights bikes like these you just you can't improve them unless you're going to go racing these are absolutely perfect for the road and track days and we've seen that ourselves over the last few years when manufacturers bring their races along to to join us on press launches i mean i've seen alex lowe's around her to a 143 on a bog stock r1 which is only a couple of seconds off his world superbike time early uh in the year there was jorge martin on a 2022 panigale v4s again did a 143 so these bikes have got massive potential so for us to say the forks are better on this one the power's better on that one it honestly is irrelevant but that doesn't mean we shouldn't celebrate them and shouldn't test them and we've picked three of the kind of apex superbike predators there are a lot more the japanese bikes are missing from this lineup and but to be honest we wanted to focus on the best because the way we perceive superbikes now aren't kind of everyday motorcycles because there's so much more choice out there superbikes really now are the the ultimate expression of speed and power and handling and we reckon these three fit the bill perfectly so we've had lockdown between now and our last superbike test and we actually tested the same three bikes and in that test the s thousand rr m package one but now we've got actually three different bikes because the s thousand rr we've now chosen the m thousand rr we've got the latest ducati v4 sp2 and the latest incarnation of the aprilia rsv4 factory so you can switch off now when i tell you the price of these bikes they're insanely expensive so this is the most expensive this is about 34 000 pounds this is the latest sp2 so it's based on the 2022 v4s so that bike ducati of making their superbikes easier to ride year on year and the latest incarnation of the panigale isn't the angry beast it used to be it's actually really flattering for the rider so this takes that a step further so it's got carbon fiber wheels it's got stronger brakes it's got different electronics it's painted in winter test colors with this matte black finish with the brushed aluminium tank all the bells and whistles it's about seven grand more than the standard v4s so this better be good then we've got the m1000rr so this basically was built for homologate this bike for superbike racing bmw kind of reached a glass ceiling with the s thousand r for racing and so they decided to make this bike so this this bike here is a about nine grand more than a nest house an rrm package um but it's not a lot different really to ride in standard trim the engine has been made it's got a little bit more power all of these are 200 and stupid bhp um it's got a bit more power but the engine is more tunable so it's stronger and it um when the superbike teams go to work on this bike they can tune it to a high level and it won't blow its brains out and it's also got a different chassis geometry as well so in racing the bike's much more stable as a road bike the the big differences are the fact it's got wings it hasn't got electronic suspension like these two bikes but the idea behind that is that you chuck the suspension away and put your fancy race stuff on anyway you've got bigger brakes you've got an underslung rear brake lots of little detail changes to make it bmw's first m bike and if you haven't got 30 odd grand to spend on a motorbike and who has you could go for the bargain basement aprilia which costs just 23 000 pounds so again this is completely out of reach of everybody completely irrelevant but completely brilliant i mean this bike's been around since 2009 so it's a golden oldie now really um it evolved into an 1100 from a thousand in 2019 that's when it really came of age and last year in 2021 it got a load of significant updates just to to bring it up another level most notably um with its aero under slung swing arm new electronics new imu new dash new riding position so this has really come of age as well we've always loved the aprilia but not giving the game away now we've always said that it's very very cramped so you know if you're tall like me no matter how good this bike is it's not going to be the most comfortable there anyway what we're going to do is put these bikes head to head it doesn't matter what the winner is because these are all insanely powerful and it's insanely exotic it doesn't really matter it's irrelevant but we're going to ride them anyway so we're going to ride them on the track more to tell you their characters really and how easy or difficult or exciting or not they are rather than lap times but we are going to give you some lap times as well um and then we're going to ride them on the road because really bites like this probably will live on the road most of the time anyway so we're going to see how easy they are to live with let's go hey oh ah we've been riding these bikes around the track all day and i mean flipping heck where'd you even start with these things without getting a bit too nerdy and a bit too worthy i mean the first thing to say is i'm probably not qualified to really even assess the performance on these bikes it's up there you need a racer so you know i'm not going to talk about the fork feel or what it's like right on the edge of traction because i'd be lying if i told you that especially um that these bikes have all got control tyres on so they're not just any old control tyres they're pirelli superbike slicks so flipping good ones so you've got an se1 compound front and se zero soft rear and with these tyres on these bikes don't move um so much so that even though they've all got flash harry electronics you don't feel the slide control or the traction control you've just got too much grip so these bikes aren't kind of separated by their electronics the only electronics you feel really are the quick shifters and they're good you feel the riding modes and they're all perfect um anti-wheelie they're all great so you know whichever one you choose here is not going to be down to electronics and the other thing i'd say is where we are today we're in perigoosa in sicily a beautiful circuit that goes through some woods around a big lake it's like a mallory on acid and and it suits these bites perfectly because you can really let them off their leashes and they're ridiculously fast so the thing i would say is depending on what kind of ride you are there is a bike here to suit you so the aprilia is just the engine the handling the braking is absolutely superb but like i said at the beginning it is a very smooth so it's only really going to suit smaller riders and and if you are of a more diminutive stature i think you're really really going to like it you're going to save a load of money over these bikes i mean the standout points for this is just it's ride quality the torque out corners it's not actually that stable all rs4s have got this thing where they kind of sit down on their rear shock and they're a little bit wobbly but even though it's got electronic suspension i'm sure you could dial that out but it's not a criticism you just got to kind of ride around it a little bit then we've got the m thousand rr so this bike feels very familiar to anyone who's had a japanese superbike in the past this could be a zx10 gsxr fireblade and r1 it's that kind of bike that feels very very familiar compared to the other two and so it's very very easy to ride the standout points on this is handling it's stability braking power is the best of the bunch in standard trim like this even though these have got posh brembo calipers the abs gives this bike lots of feel where it kind of robs the feel of the other two um but what i would say is a 30 gram motorbike really this bike is bought for um by race teams to go racing and i personally think the s thousand rr is better because the engine has got a little bit more grunt this kind of feels quite flat when you're riding especially compared to the 1100s because the 1100s have got more torque and more cubes but you know you've got to scream this bike and you've got to be really on your game to get the best out of this bike um as for the wings incidentally whether they work or not it's hard to say because all these bikes are designed not to wheely through wings and fuel mapping electronics all the rest of it all you can say they're not wheeling monsters so the wings must be doing something and motogp bikes are absolutely little with them so they've got to work and then we've got the panigale so ever since it came out it's always been the superbike beast it's very stiff very powerful very hard to ride if you're not a professional racer i mean this panigale is designed for track riders that break an angle into a corner so you haven't got any lean angle so you're using it's super powers it's got mega strong frame so it's really good underbreaking it's designed just to be whacked on its side for the shortest amount of time possible and then it's got mega stability on the on the power so it's a point and squirt bike and if you try and ride it like 600 like most riders do me included because you haven't grown up riding grand prix bikes and it can get a little bit out of shape but the cat had realized that people normal people were going to be riding this so they've they tamed it down and over the years the panagia has become much much easier to ride but still really fast the thing i like about hannah gary the most not just because it looks brutal and it looks menacing and it sounds fantastic although the v4 more conventional sounding v4 and this sounds great but it's roomy so tall rider like me can just really get on with it well the electronics just dumb down the power when you need it and give you the power when you need it it's got so much grip it's just it's got a bigger screen than the other two so you can get right in under it the the ergonomics are much much better for track riding so out of the three i'd personally choose the panigale it's kind of the most it gives you the biggest wow factor but that's not to say these other two bites aren't incredibly fast so that's our track section done and we're going to see now what these beasts are like on the road mmm welcome to the road section of our relevant superbike test so to put these bikes on a level playing field again we've put control tyres on them all this time they're pirelli diablo rosso 4 corsa and they're a step between a sports tyre and a track day tyre and for these type of bikes for the road even on track days they're fantastic so so we're not testing the tyres here we're just testing the bikes um with my sensible head on what i would say and it carries on from the whole thread of this video really that these bikes are way too much for the road which is obvious isn't it and i would say that the super naked versions of all of these bikes so the street fighter the tuono the s thousand r are all a million percent better to actually ride on the road than these things because all the weights on your wrists you've got cramp cramped foot pegs you've got engines where all the power is right up the top so you know super nakeds are better than these things but what are these bikes like on the road because you know as good as they are around track is it's hard to take a 30 odd grand motorcycle on a track day um because of all the risks involved so as road bikes hands down this is the best as you'd expect it's a bmw bmw make touring bikes and adventure bikes and that dna goes in their sports bikes as well so like on the track it's very easy to understand just to jump on it feels very conventional um it's got heated grips it's got cruise control it's got a fantastic color dash it's very stable it's quite comfortable it's just very very easy to live with and because it's the m you've got all this flasharry carbon fiber and you know when you pull up a bike meeting or something like that it has got presence it's a lovely lovely thing and incidentally it was second fastest around the track so that's not bad going is it the ducati was the quickest and then the aprilia came in third but they're all really really close so the beam is the best road bike all day long it's the one i would choose if i was going to do a long journey um but these two feel like race bikes on the road so they're a little bit uncompromising the aprilia has actually become more friendly in its latest incarnation and for a tall rider like me the extra room you've got with the foot pegs and the seat is very very useful and the engine is very plush it's very smooth and the the sound of it is just incredible you can't get enough of the way it wails through that pipe and it's induction ward it's just addictive um the suspension's really nice but it still is a little bit cramped and it still is a little bit risky and then the ducati the ducati like we said at the beginning has really changed over the years and it's become a lot more of a friendly road bike um and even now i'm surprised every time i jump on that kind of muscle memory makes me think that this is quite a sort of harsh angry beast but ducati has smoothed all the all the rough edges off this bike it's incredible so the suspension is just beautifully plush the power delivery isn't spiky anymore the riding position is actually quite roomy it's got a lot of seats a peg room the bars are really wide and splayed it tolerates road riding a lot better than it did so that's what they're like on the road but really we're judging this test on different criteria we're not saying which is the best road bike because really none of these are and like i said the super naked versions are better and in actual fact the lower spec versions of all these bikes are just as good so bass panigale doesn't feel too different to that the bass rsv doesn't feel too different and for almost half the price you can get the bass s thousand rr and it's almost just as good so these bikes are more about the ultimate in kind of super bike decadence and the the way they make you feel and you know if you're fortunate enough to be able to afford any of these machines you want something that when you open the garage door it's just going to absolutely knock your socks off and this doesn't do it as good as it is the bmw isn't really special enough even though in the flesh it looks a lot better in pictures and it probably looks better than it does on video especially with all the nice carbon fiber but for 30 grand i'd want at least electronic olins not because it works any better but just for the bling and that's what these bikes are about isn't it so although this is a fantastic bike it's not the best it's slightly better than the aprilia though the aprilia was the slowest on track it kind of feels a little bit dated around the edges and although it is a lot cheaper than these two bikes you know for the ultimate superbike the aprilia isn't it as good as it is which leaves really the winner which is the ducati the cat is fastest around the track it's evolved over the last few years to become friendly on the road but most of all it's just a seriously impressive superbike you can't get enough of looking at it at it you can't get enough of riding it on a circuit on the road it just makes you feel special the engine the pedigree the way it handles the way it rides the way it stops everything is just tick tick tick tick tick and it is obscenely expensive and it is totally irrelevant but this is the best super bike you can buy right now so so so you
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