Honda Fireblade

  • VIDEO: Watch a lap of Qatar on the 2020 Honda Fireblade with Leon Haslam

    VIDEO: Watch a lap of Qatar on the 2020 Honda Fireblade with Leon Haslam

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    It takes the Honda rider just under 2m 30s to get a road-going Blade around Qatar and in this video Leon explains all the nooks and various crannies that go into getting around the desert circuit quickly. Whilst we’re all waiting for something to happen in the racing world (other than more cancellations/postponements/wringing of hands…

  • VIDEO: Honda’s 2020 Fireblade gets its taps opened up in Japan. Turn this up LOUD!

    VIDEO: Honda’s 2020 Fireblade gets its taps opened up in Japan. Turn this up LOUD!

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    Check this out, it’s a video from our friends at Japanese magazine Young Machine of their top-end test on the new Honda Fireblade. Riding the bike at the Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI), specifically on the very high speed Yatabe test course, the bike was put through a series of high-speed runs with the test…

  • WSB: Leon Haslam and Alvaro Bautista launch their 2020 campaign on factory Honda Fireblades

    WSB: Leon Haslam and Alvaro Bautista launch their 2020 campaign on factory Honda Fireblades

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    Here’s a fine selection of images (and a video) from the Honda launch of its WSB assault on 2020. It’s very corporate, this colour scheme for this year, and ties in directly with the scheme of the new Fireblade for 2020. It kinda works though – trick and aggressive. Should look great in the middle…

  • Want to see Honda’s WSB 2020 Fireblade up close? Here you go.

    Want to see Honda’s WSB 2020 Fireblade up close? Here you go.

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    It’s a lovely piece of motorcycle for a Monday morning that’ll get you smiling. This is the factory Honda World Superbike Fireblade in testing garb, photographed between test sessions. Campaigned this year on the world stage by Leon Haslam and Alvaro Bautista, the bike is all-new and comes with a host of aerodynamic wings. Think…

  • VIDEO: Glenn Irwin spanking the Honda Fireblade motorcycle around Almeria – PLAY IT LOUD

    VIDEO: Glenn Irwin spanking the Honda Fireblade motorcycle around Almeria – PLAY IT LOUD

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    Umm… this is a video of Glenn Irwin spanking the Honda Fireblade around Almeria Circuit in Spain. It’s happened in the past couple of days. He is going fast. It is an onboard shot with some ace sound from the 2020 superbike. Turn it up loud, enjoy the lap. Looks like the lad Irwin is…

  • SPORT BIKE TO SPORT TOURER: Honda’s PATENT which lets you change your RIDING POSITION.

    SPORT BIKE TO SPORT TOURER: Honda’s PATENT which lets you change your RIDING POSITION.

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    Honda has filed a patent for a clever piece of technology which will allow you to change your CBR1000RR from out and out sport bike to a tourer. Have you ever tried touring on a sport bike? While it’s not impossible – it’s hardly the most comfortable way to cover some serious miles. Presumably, that’s…

  • 2020 Honda Fireblade – a chat with the engineer behind the bike

    2020 Honda Fireblade – a chat with the engineer behind the bike

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    While we were at the EICMA show the other week, we grabbed a chat with Yuzuru Ishikawa, the Large Project Leader for the 2020 Fireblade. Here’s what he was saying… THE 2020 Honda Fireblade was, by some margin, the bike of the show at Milan this season. Part of that is down to many of…

  • VIDEO: Honda’s SUPERBLADE caught out while TESTING at Suzuka.

    VIDEO: Honda’s SUPERBLADE caught out while TESTING at Suzuka.

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    In addition to the spy shots of Honda’s Superblade we posted yesterday, we’ve just been sent a video of the bike in action which is doing the rounds on social media. Caught on camera while blasting around the Suzuka Circuit in Japan, it gives us a proper look at one of the worst kept secrets…

  • SPY SHOTS: Honda’s SUPERBLADE motorcycle puts in the miles on track ahead of the bike’s launch NEXT MONTH.

    SPY SHOTS: Honda’s SUPERBLADE motorcycle puts in the miles on track ahead of the bike’s launch NEXT MONTH.

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    Here’s some early snaps of the 2020 Honda SuperBlade (not the official name, but you know what – it’s starting to stick) out in private testing at the Suzuka circuit in Japan. Caught on track The bike will be launched at EICMA in Milan on November 5, so it’s nice that these images – taken…

  • OOOOhhhh…. look at this cgi of the Honda Superblade from our Japanese mates. How hot is this?

    OOOOhhhh…. look at this cgi of the Honda Superblade from our Japanese mates. How hot is this?

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    Made by the excellent soothsayers in the land of the rising sun, this image of the next-generation, hot-for-2020 Superblade from Honda is boiling hot. Equipped with MotoGP-esque wings and active aerodynamics, the bike is going to be the flagship model in the 2020 road-going line up and will have former Ducati WSB darling Alvaro Bautista…

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