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Blade wrote:£23000 for a fireblade

Look at this on eBay  http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272519581294" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

just did a bit of looking around, it seems from its introduction in 1992/3 it was priced at about £7400 (http://www.simonreid.net/fireblade/info ... ions92.htm), by 2004/5 the price had rocketed to the dizzy height of £8500 (http://www.visordown.com/reviews/motorc ... -2004-2005) over those 12 years, and now a minor jump to over £15k over the next 12 years...... indeed

It's used but it's new? Eh?

Seems strange that they've listed it at that price when all of the dealers have had a price list sent to them from Honda UK.

US Prices :-

http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/bikes/2 ... ore-128334" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

As such, current pricing is as follows: Honda CBR1000RR – $16,999; Honda CBR1000RR ABS – TBD; Honda CBR1000RR SP – $19,999; Honda CBR1000RR SP2 – $24,999.

Journalists are riding it this weekend at Portimao.

Does look good .

duke63 wrote:Journalists are riding it this weekend at Portimao.

Does look good .

except for the token piece of plastic covering the frame hole .. i thought they could have done a bit better.

There must be a good mechanical reason for it. What would you want to remove at that height?

It's the same frame as the previous bike. I think blade said it was an engine mount access hole the old fairings covered it.

There are a few videos filtering through now and it sounds like a race bike on track with the standard exhaust.

duke63 wrote:There are a few videos filtering through now and it sounds like a race bike on track with the standard exhaust.

links?

https://www.facebook.com/MotorcycleNews ... ED&fref=nf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Not sure how to link FB videos.

That sounds really good for a standard bike .

right click on the video
select "show video url"
paste on here with the video tabs

[video]https://www.facebook.com/MotorcycleNews ... 393143855/[/video]

Dealers are already offering £750 deposit contribution

That's a bit surprising,. I wonder if the initial uptake wasn't as high as they had hoped for?

Honda have often done promotions and IMO there asking price is too high and maybe the high price and instant reduction was always planned to make it seem a bargain to potential buyers. Everyone loves a deal even if there not actually getting one , but think they are.

The Base model is over priced by about £750-1000 and as much as I love Blades the SP1 is R1M money and it will need to be special or discounted to take sales of the top spec Yamaha IMO.

I think if the only thing I could find wrong with a bike is a couple of bits of plastic in a awkward place then I've prolly found a pretty exceptional bike.

Plus....my knees would probably cover them when I'm riding the thing.....AND, it's not like I didn't chop the Daytona all to hell to get it looking 'right'.

So saying....that exhaust looks like a power pod from Kirk's Enterprise.

The covers are not the end of the world and not too unsightly but poor standards by big H imo.

If your paying the thick end of nearly 20 grand for an all new motorcycle from the world's biggest motorcycle manufacturer who have a reputation for quality then they could and should have done better imo.

watched a few review videos last night and the electronics sound Great. they are raving about the simplistic suspension tuning on the sp but would i pay all that money over the old bike for the electronics if it was my money i dont think so.

@ Blade.
I was just going off Rocket's post about it not being an all new design....and now you're telling me it is....which one is it??