Honda CBR600RR: News
2013 Honda CBR600RR: bold new headlights
Sales have collapsed in the 600cc supersport market worldwide, virtually halting development. The R6 is now seven years old, this year's new ZX-6R might have TC and 636cc, but is otherwise just a facelift of the old version and the GSX-R is over half a decade old too. For its sixth birthday, Honda is giving the CBR600RR new headlights and BPF forks. ...
12 November 2012
Custom: Honda CBR600RR Dionysus
Louder than a Formula One car and lighter than a 250, residents of Los Angeles may be familiar with this 'fightered CBR600RR from that time their ear drums burst or when they ran for their lives as it powerslid past them through a pedestrian mall. Cops hate it, I refuse to ride it, it makes small children cry. It's Jamie Robinson's daily transport. ...
25 September 2012
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Watch this CBR600RR defy physics
In 2011, we tend to think of “gymkhana” as something Ken Block does with a rally car, energy drink sponsorship and a limitless tire budget. But before he was doing donuts around Segways, motorcycles were ripping up impossibly tight parking lot courses in Japan. This video of a CBR600RR performing impossible lean angles at low speed is simply stunning. What blows our minds is that he’s at ful...
07 March 2011
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Bott M210: the sexiest CBR600RR ever
These photos show the nearly completed Moto2 racer from tiny Spanish builder Bottpower. Previously the make of the CBR954RR-based Bottpower Morlaco, David Sanchez has been developing this prototype since the series was announced last year. The interesting things to look at here are the stemless headstock that allows a straight path for air to flow into the airbox, the simple and very slender fuel ...
09 June 2010
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Aprilia seeks revenge as 47 teams apply for 2010 Moto2
Maybe there's something to all this talk of four-strokes cutting costs after all. 47 teams with a total of 91 riders have applied to race in the 250GP-replacing Moto2 class next year. Only one two-rider team applied to run a 250cc two-stroke instead of the Honda CBR600RR-based four-stroke engine, but that could change if Aprilia has its way. In a move that looks like revenge for all but cutting Ap...
02 June 2009
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Moto2 engines to be based on CBR600RR
The engines Honda will supply to the 250GP-replacing Moto2 class will be based on that of the current CBR600RR. Despite their humble basis, the motors will produce over 150bhp and will be capped to a 16,500rpm redline. Honda has apparently been developing this engine for over two years, we'd guess since it first informed Dorna that it should replace two-strokes with four-stroke inline-fours. >Dorn...
27 May 2009