Aloha CBR Dude’s around the world
Been reading all the post about your opinions on the 08 Honda CBR 1000RR, so here is my riding experience on the licensed for the street race bike, this is no *** machine, it flat out hauls ass as it holds the front wheel up 1st through 3rd gear easily, you can fan the clutch in forth and get it up again till it hit’s the rev limiter then get down behind the wind screen and keep it WOT up shifting to the top of 6th gear> 186mph, and it will do this @ the 6000 ft level on Saddle Road here on the Big Island of Hawaii where I live and ride my street bike motocross style…more air time more better.
The flat looking 08 front faring blows the air away so your helmet does not bobble around and crank your neck like the pointed nose 06 CBR will, been there had one for 38,000 miles worth.
The one finger Tokiko brakes work like magic, and the bike won’t stand up under hard braking in the corners, the slipper clutch will save your ass as you bang down gears setting up for that “now” 100 MPH+ turn you used to take @ a scared shitless 70 MPH with your old whatever bike.
The fuel injection is seamless smooth and the shifting is also butter smooth…the electronic steering dampener will keep you out of the hospital as you come down from 100Mph wheelies and over pot holed patch work rough roads @ a buck fifty+…there doing that every weekend…my axiom is “Go faster than the crash” being an off road dirt bike Rock Island Rider this gets me to the finish line 99% of the time, and same holds true on the street.
I cut the shitty “hemorrhoid” looking license plate/turn signal crap off it’s thorax and hinge mounted the lic plate in front of the rear tire so that when the wheel comes up a ¾” plastic wheel mounted on a ½ x 3/16 x 4” long aluminum arm hose clamped to the bottom of rear shock air bladder pushes the license plate up an away from the rear tire when I “G” out on table top jumps and steep down hill landings, then I mounted small LED turn signal lights near the tail light.
The bike now looks more proportional and race ready.
FYI> I am 67 yr old now, started motocross racing @ 44 yr old and never stopped, still on the gas…dirt/street…am there and doing that, going on 25 years now...bottom line is> don’t die on health food trying to save your life, stay on the gas because the closer to death the more alive you’ll feel, and remember “fear is the master intellectual fraud”…like I said; go faster than the crash!
Wannabe the bad boy on the block? Get an 08 CBR1000RR.
~Gasser~