Aprilia in trouble?

According to this MCN article[1], Aprilia are in serious trouble and are to
stop making bikes:

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/detail?sectionID=212131&documentID=198198

or

http://tinyurl.com/2zbbr

I've looked on Google Groups and didn't find any previous post about this
here, does anyone have any more information?

[1] I know, I know.

 

That didn't work, but

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/documentID=198198

did.

 

That didn't work either, but this might:
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/detail?sectionID=50677&documentID=198198

*ker-thunk*

(That was the sound of the resale value of my bike hitting the floor,
from a starting point of not very far above it.)

 

Aye, summat went wrong between paste and post, so I cancelled that post.

Or http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/detail?documentID=198198

 

A real-life working example of the antithesis of "synergy".

Great work Andrew
(A+) and a gold star.

 

Good plan.

It'll probably spontaneously disintegrate before then as well - save me
the hassle of dismantling it.

What about me, though?

 

Slacker. I learnt that by sleeping through Economics 'O' Level.

I understand all that. However, you specifically mentioned Guzzi and
Laverda... what about Aprilias?

 

You know, I felt old a while ago. I now feel young, as I did GCSEs.

 

You're both far too young. I don't think the idea of 'O' level, or any
computing course in schools had even been vaguely contemplated when I
was at school, let alone GCSEs.

 

Oh, so you did. I just wasn't paying attention.

Define 'lucky'.

 

They probably called them 'difference engines' in your time.

 

Only after about 1973, IIRC. Before that they used grades 1 to 9,
where 1-6 were passes and 7-9 fails. These then got condensed down to
A B and C passes and D and E fails.

Allegedly. Lods of differences between the syllabus though, meaning
that a 'real' O level would nearly always be preferred to a CSE.

 

Are you telling the world this for a reason or did you think that I didn't
know which of my qualifications were 'O' levels and which were CSEs, despite
my footer making it perfectly clear that I do?


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Quite like the subject matter itself then?

 

Although some would say [1] that it was easier to wing a C grade O' level
whereas you really had to work to get a CSE grade 1. My own O level
results were unexpectedly [2] abysmal.


[1] those who only have CSEs probably (the mongs)
[2] by me (the surprised mong)

 

That means their share price will increase now.

 

In your dreams...

 

The school I was at did O level computer science.. we had (gasp) a
link to the Borough mainframe..

O - and a few RML 380Z PCs. As well as about 10 BBC B's
(fresh and shiny!)

This was about the late 70's, early 80's.[1]

Mind you I didn't do the O level - and then wasn't allowed to
do the A level because I hadn't done the O level. The fact that I
knew 10 times as much about comuters
than the O level mob (having build my own PC and learnt
assembly language to program it) didn't seem to enter into it..

Phil.

[1] I can't be bothered to work backwards. I'm 39 now if that helps
any..


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Coo, my first programming job was on Burroughs B800 and B1800's
programming in Cobol in some strange language called MPL. That would be
about 1981-2 ish.

<sigh> happy days spent writing a connect 4 game in Cobol.

 

Nurse! Fetch the wraparound jacket stat!

Phil

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