cb1000r

hi all

Has anyone seen one of these in the flesh, the pics look v sweet. Yes ok its a honda , but it seems the little fellas have come up with a peach of a ride .Its released date for the uk is 4TH july. UMMMMM I think i might blag a test ride.

yeah, saw it at the NEC. Some nice design features but not my cupper.

Im sure its a great bike but dont like the wheels or the gas mask style front light.

+1 for the single swinger though

222kg?? Good God that's heavy. I thought Honda had come up with an answer to the Z1000. Obviously not.

The weight is in Blackbird territory. I've ridden the Blackbird and It's a lump of a bike.

On the upside, It looks nice.

Blur your eyes (or for you old guys, take off your glasses) - and it looks mysteriously akin to the SD. But it's fooking heavy.



Nice dashboard

Love that back wheel.

I like the pissed off looking front mask and the dash the rest looks like a fireblade that got crashed and someone cant afford to buy new fairings ???is that a r1 tail???

To each their own, I think it's one of the best looking nakeds around, and certainly the most impractical bike I've seen Honda throw out. I kinda like it just for that. Get rid of the exhaust for an good-quality aftermarket, and it'll look and sound even better!

But I agree that the weight puts me off completely. Where did they shove that extra 20-30-odd kgs anyway? Where, dammit, where? (oh wait, look at that exhaust ). I'll ride it for fun, but I'm pretty convinced it's still not the bike for me. But it's not that far off though...

Bolt on some WP suspension, shove a 75deg 1000cc v-twin motor into the redesigned steel tube frame, throw on some brembo radials and wider bars, and finally starve it till it weighed 188kg's, yes THEN I'd consider it

smurf, nice... if for one second we could all back up,, start this thread over and say.... here is the new SD? just try it,

look at it with a KTM emblem on that tank, then...(explore just how much control you have in your own mind to change what you think,

please try this, concentrate and look). this new SDRRRR is one bad ass looking item?!our minds will start thinking,

Humm......this new SDRRRR is 330lbs wet, 199hp.(this is coming folks).

comes shod w slicks and a mini add on high tech wind buffeting controller sos ye do not need a shield at 220 mph?

looks like the same bike as our current SD's but with a shape that makes it appear to be traveling at 277 miles per fooking hour!!!

just look at this, it actually appears that Honda has done this via ktm's efforts and photoshop?.... I love the bike, it is real beautiful if it weren't a Honda?

but for me, they could build the coolest fastest bike on the planet, if it were too heavy this would absolutely ruin it. for certain.

It costs tons of money to make them light, strong and fast, here within lies the dilemma.

I tell you brethren, this IS coming at us right now, people are working thare way towards this small way of thinking, it is happening.

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When is KTM gonna stuff an RC8 mill into the SDR?!?

I want one of those. Call it the SD8R, Call it the SDRC8, call it shit, just build it...
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