Stormdragon
Still Good Lookin'
- Joined
- Feb 12, 2006
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- Cool, (yes, really!) CA
- Moto(s)
- XT600, ZX636, KR250, RS90
- Name
- El Diablo
Doesn't come with slicks, and weighs one pound more than it should. Would Not Buy. 
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2014 Honda CBR1000RR SP
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alien
Looks just as nice as it did in 2008, yeah getting long in the tooth but I've never rode one so maybe they got this design right 7yrs ago.
RaptorFA
EarShplitinloudenboomer
I have never ridden a 'Blade, but I have heard that they are incredibly well-balanced and handle beautifully. This new model, I imagine, is a further refinement of the platform. Dated, true, but it still seems like a great bike to me.
There is a type of rider, the more pure rider perhaps, that prefers a bike like this that is more pure itself to one with all the complex electronic gobbledy-gook on it. I'd love to take one for a spin and see what it's like.
There is a type of rider, the more pure rider perhaps, that prefers a bike like this that is more pure itself to one with all the complex electronic gobbledy-gook on it. I'd love to take one for a spin and see what it's like.
Hooli
Bonafide
They do. My '08 made me a more graceful rider than I already was.
Srsly though, it was a typical Honda...just get on it and go. It did everything competently, not outstanding in any one particular way.
kangaroo
New member
They do. My '08 made me a more graceful rider than I already was.
Ah but does it make you tingle like an R1
Hooli
Bonafide
Seeing that I've had 3 past R1's to compare it to, I'll put it this way:
My 1999 R1 was more visceral and raw (kind of like my '06 G1K).
The 2002 R1 was the most similar. It had a certain Honda "blandness" to it, lol.
My 2004 R1 (still the sexiest bike I've ever owned hands-down), had a serious lack of midrange compared to the CBR. Around 10,000rpm things were reversed; it took off and rocketed to redline while the Honda, hamstrung by US restrictions, signs off at that point. You can claw back some of that top end with a Bazzaz Z-Bomb or ECU reflash though.
None of the Yamahas had a prodigious thirst for oil like my CBR did, though.
kangaroo
New member
jmg893
New member
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None of the Yamahas had a prodigious thirst for oil like my CBR did, though.
Did?! You sold it?
Hooli
Bonafide
Brown81
Well-known member
Hooli
Bonafide
The K6 is older.
Brown81
Well-known member
You still have the GSXR too?
I thought you had a new bike? Didnt you get a multi?
Sheesh, you're a hoarder.
I thought you had a new bike? Didnt you get a multi?
Sheesh, you're a hoarder.
Hooli
Bonafide
Reli
Well-known member
If you mean the crossplank version, I agree. All other I4's are generic in comparison.
kangaroo
New member
Just can't get over the Dark Helmet looks. It seriously needs to go on a major diet.
Reli
Well-known member
That's why you get it in black.
WeekEndWarrior
Shake and Bake
Still have it, it's in stasis.
I'll let you ride my new r1 if I can ride the blade. I miss my cbr, that bike was so stealthy on everything it did. Insane.
Hooli
Bonafide
You can ride the Honduh if you can start it.
I think that you'd actually have more fun on the Multi.
Hooli
Bonafide
Sell me that shock and those forks.