Honda Fireblade
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TT 2017: Guy’s crash at Doran’s Bend caught on camera
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During the Monday’s TT Superbike race, Honda Racing’s Guy Martin crashed at speeds of around 120mph on Doran’s bend during his first lap. Guy reported that the bike went into false neutral, causing him to hit the kerb and take a tumble. https://www.facebook.com/mark.thomson.122/videos/10158755808875627/ Thankfully, Guy Martin was quick to his feet after the crash, scrambling…
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Video: Check out this cool naked Street Fighter Blade from Italy. Brute meets cafe racer (kind of)
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So here’s what you do when you don’t want to buy a new superbike and the raft of modern naked roadsters leave you cold… you go and buy a Street Racer ‘short-tail’ Fireblade. Made in Italy, the bike is built from the CBR900RR Blade with customers having a choice of three engine sizes to choose…
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TT 2017: Neve gets Jackson Racing Fireblade ride
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Lincolnshire’s Craig Neve will ride the Jackson Racing Honda Fireblade in the Superbike and Senior races at the Isle of Man TT having struck a deal with the Preston-based team on Sunday. The 25-year old will campaign the ex-Nicky Hayden CBR1000RR originally earmarked for Lee Johnston and which the Northern Irishman took to third in…
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Track-ready version of the Honda Fireblade SP2 to be announced tomorrow – here’s the spec
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If you fancy something very exclusive (as in, 40 are being sold in the first batch) then get your cash out for a track-ready, kitted Honda Fireblade CBR1000RR SP2 race special that goes on release tomorrow. Based on the CBR1000RR SP2 that was shown last year at Milan, the race-based bike is stripped of…
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Video: Road to Race – the story of the new Honda CBR1000RR
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Honda Racing has just released the first episode of their brand new ‘Road to Race’ web series, which looks at just what’s involved when transforming a road-spec Fireblade into a race-ready Superbike. The first episode of the new series goes behind the scenes of the three Honda Racing teams, at their workshop in Louth in…
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REVEALED! Here’s the OFFICIAL design drawings for Honda’s V4 superbike. It’s got a rear ‘wing’. Single seat and looks like a suped-up Blade.
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It’s real. It’s the V4. It’s real. That truly was worth saying twice. The reason? These actual, finished drawings of the bike from Honda itself. Real designs, real details, really want to ride it. Oh boy… Here’s the official patents filed by Honda for its 2018 V4 superbike. Yeah, the V4. Cleverly, Honda…
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Launch ride: 2017 Honda CBR1000RR / SP
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WORDS: John Milbank, Editor Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine PHOTOGRAPHY: Zep Gori, Francesc Montero, Felix Romero How hard could it be? Don’t lean over too far and don’t run on; the electronics will take care of the rest, surely? APS, ABS, HESD, TBW, HSTC… so many acronyms (I counted 14) that there must be enough…
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2017 Fireblade prices slip out – rumour at the moment – but it sounds pricey if true
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2017 Fireblade prices slip out – rumour at the moment – but it sounds pricey if true. Honda’s prices for the new Fireblade have slipped out – and it seems as though the SP1 and SP2 versions of the bike are going to cost a bit more than first thought. Here’s the prices that we’ve…
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When you want a new Blade SP-2 but can only afford a CBR250RR…
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When you want a new Blade SP-2 but can only afford a CBR250RR… We’ve shown you a few customised/tweaked versions of the 2017 Honda CBR250RR already, but there’s no getting away from the fact that this latest one has hit something of a vein of cool. Essentially, it’s just a paintjob with a new exhaust…
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Video: Motorcycle Live! A 2017 thing to see: Honda’s new Fireblades!
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With 192bhp on tap and a host of new electronics the new Fireblades from Honda are definitely worth a stop-off as you go around Motorcycle Live! next week. Honda has built a great display showing the history of the iconic superbike which takes you from the humble 1992 beginnings right up to the newly-released Fireblade…
