FIRST RIDE
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2014 HONDA CBR1000RR SP
Little Things
Mean a Lot
Finally… a special-edition
CBR1000RR
BY ALAN CATHCART
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ZEP GORI, ULA SERRA
AND FRANCESC MONTERO
"I
f you have enough dust, you can build a
mountain." That's a Japanese saying that
roughly equates to what Honda has done
in creating the new CBR1000RR SP. As in, little
things mean a lot.
So after reinventing the four-cylinder sportbike
back in 1992, Honda has spent the past 21 years
building on a legacy by constantly improving
and subtly enhancing what for most of that time
has been the world's best-selling maxi-sportbike
(with more than 400,000 sold globally). In all
that time, Honda engineers have been fanatically focused on not betraying the CBR's heritage - carefully evolving it to keep pace with the
competition without sacrificing its unique selling proposition, which sees exceptional performance and handling combined with accessibility
and practicality.
Honda's achievement with the CBR has been
to create the most balanced such motorcycle
available – one that's able to extract the very
best from every rider, while delivering ride-to-themall usability. As such, successive generations
The specialedition Honda
CBR1000RR SP
features topgrade hardware
that makes it a
challenger to its
European rivals.
