The CBR600RR is Back
Bike India|August 2024
Despite resounding success both on track and in showrooms, Honda pulled the plug on the CBR600RR in Europe in 2017. A maturing and fast-changing market allied to tightening EU emission regulations made the decision relatively easy for the Japanese manufacturer, but sport bike fans from Madrid to Melbourne were disappointed because the CBR was a fantastic bike. A highly evolved, mass-centralized RC213V for the masses; a pocket-rocket that oozed HRC thinking and quality. It was missed. Honda have now re-introduced it and we flew to the very fast and demanding Portimão track in Portugal to put the reborn screamer through its paces
Adam Child 'Chad'
The CBR600RR is Back

BY 2021, THERE WAS HOPE ON THE horizon when Honda re-introduced the 600-cc in-line four to the Japanese market and bikes started to appear in racing—notably in World Supersport and on the roads at the Isle of Man TT, on bikes imported to the United Kingdom by Padgett’s Motorcycles. And now, finally, for 2024, Honda have decided to re-introduce it.

As you can imagine for a bike that has essentially been left untouched since 2017, there was a lot of work involved to bring it up to modern standards. The old CBR had no electronic rider aids, no clever six-axis IMU, no aero package, and it did not even comply with now- obsolete Euro4.

Last seen in Europe in 2017, it looked as if the CBR600RR was passing into history. If you wanted to see one in recent times, the Honda Collection Hall at Motegi was increasingly likely to be the place. But rather than let it become a museum piece, Honda have dusted down their defining sports middleweight and completed the mammoth task of making it Euro5+ compliant while preserving its legendary high-revving performance and delivering it to the street and track with state-of-the-art electronics on a par with the new 2024 CBR1000RR-R Fireblade.

The in-line four-cylinder layout remains, as does the same massively oversquare 67 x 42.5 millimetre bore and stroke and 12.2:1 compression ratio. The throttle bodies, however, have gone up from four mm to 44 mm, cam timings have been revised, and a new exhaust system does much of the heavy lifting in terms of hitting Euro5+. (Honda say more than 50 prototype systems were tried before their engineers were happy.)

Improved gas-flow at (very) high rpm was the main performance goal and despite the strangling effect of those emission regulations, peaks of 121 hp at 14,250 rpm and 63 Nm at 11,500 rpm are similar to the far less restricted 2017 model, which is impressive indeed.

Diese Geschichte stammt aus der August 2024-Ausgabe von Bike India.

Starten Sie Ihre 7-tägige kostenlose Testversion von Magzter GOLD, um auf Tausende kuratierte Premium-Storys sowie über 8.000 Zeitschriften und Zeitungen zuzugreifen.

Diese Geschichte stammt aus der August 2024-Ausgabe von Bike India.

Starten Sie Ihre 7-tägige kostenlose Testversion von Magzter GOLD, um auf Tausende kuratierte Premium-Storys sowie über 8.000 Zeitschriften und Zeitungen zuzugreifen.

WEITERE ARTIKEL AUS BIKE INDIAAlle anzeigen
BMW F 450 GS Concept
Bike India

BMW F 450 GS Concept

EICMA 2024 IS GENERALLY NIRVANA FOR MOTORCYCLE ENTHUSIASTS as they're treated to plenty of new machines from a number of manufacturers. BMW Motorrad are one of them.

time-read
1 min  |
November 2024
Toprak is the 2024 World Champion
Bike India

Toprak is the 2024 World Champion

Toprak Razgatlioglu took home his second World Superbike Championship (WSBK) title after a good battle with the Italian rookie, Nicolo Bulega of Ducati.

time-read
1 min  |
November 2024
A Toprak Sandwich
Bike India

A Toprak Sandwich

The battle for the title heated up as Toprak Razgatlioglu won Race One and Race Two while Nicolo Bulega won the Superpole Race in Estoril, the penultimate round of the 2024 World Superbike Championship (WSBK) season.

time-read
2 Minuten  |
November 2024
Navaneeth Wins Double
Bike India

Navaneeth Wins Double

Navaneeth Kumar S, Rohan R, and Yogesh P were the winners in the second round of the J K Tyre Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup INDIAN RACING

time-read
3 Minuten  |
November 2024
Ross Branch and Team Hero MotoSports are the new FIM World Rally-raid Champions
Bike India

Ross Branch and Team Hero MotoSports are the new FIM World Rally-raid Champions

TEAM HERO MOTOSPORTS was founded in 2016 and Ross Branch joined in 2022. Since then, he has been a Hero MotoSports rider and their years of toil have borne a particularly sweet fruit: Ross Branch and Hero MotoSports are now the FIM World Rally-raid Champions.

time-read
1 min  |
November 2024
The Rise of a New 'Rad'
Bike India

The Rise of a New 'Rad'

Reise Moto invited us to the COASTT High Performance Centre in Coimbatore to experience their all-new radial road tyres, the traceRads.

time-read
2 Minuten  |
November 2024
Feels Like Graduation
Bike India

Feels Like Graduation

The third and final round of the TVS Young Media Racer Programme (YMRP) saw us take P2 in the race and P3 in the overall championship. Here is how it went off

time-read
3 Minuten  |
November 2024
In the Shadow of the Colossus
Bike India

In the Shadow of the Colossus

TVS have given the base Jupiter a complete overhaul, including a new engine. We had checked it out on a closed course back in August. This time we let it loose on the urban jungle and observed if it could survive there

time-read
4 Minuten  |
November 2024
Pay Win
Bike India

Pay Win

THE ATHER RIZTA WAS LAUNCHED TO much fanfare in April this year and then we got to sample it for a short burst in May.

time-read
5 Minuten  |
November 2024
Agile and Aggressive
Bike India

Agile and Aggressive

The Kawasaki KLX 230 is a superbly built dual-sport that has the ability to take on some big hitters in our market. We hopped on it for a while and kicked up some dirt at the Prodirt Adventure Park.

time-read
3 Minuten  |
November 2024