Aprilia Falco Drive Force Diagram Discussion

Is it possible to make this bike accelerate faster? Certainly. You could gear the bike up with enough rear wheel torque to pull stumps, but the wheel is going to spin or the bike will flip over backwards. Without opening up the cases and closing the transmission ratios, you may not find the result rideable.

In the graph above, we've dropped another tooth off the front sprocket.

• We have certainly increased acceleration, as seen by the shift of the curves upwards. First gear is now off the previous scale. But is it useable? Consider that we figured the potential for wheelying starts around 625 lbs. Wouldn't it be interesting if you were slipping the clutch to get this bike moving and then as soon as it grabs the front wheel lifts off the ground? You may end up shifting to second early, or even starting off in second. That's almost like deleting a gear from your gearbox. But maybe first was unusable before and you wanted to make second more fun?
   
• The second thing you may have noticed is that the bike will now pull all the way to redline without being stopped by wind resistance. But, the top speed is now set by the rev limiter, at 157. The curves have not only shifted up, but also to the left. We've lost a little top speed. On a street bike, 157 is pretty fast. Maybe if you are racing at Daytona, this would bother you. The good thing is that we lowered the speed at which we have to slip the clutch to get moving.

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