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Model(s) covered: 2008 Honda CBR 1000 RR Fireblade
I've never really been much of a show-off. Never been the guy who always had to have the shiniest car on the block or the biggest house. Even though I've been fortunate enough to ride some of the quickest bikes on the market I've never flaunted them to my friends. Well that is until I parked the new 2008 CBR1000RR in my garage for two weeks. Riding Honda's newest liter-bike creation somehow transformed me into that guy I always swore I would never be.
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Model(s) covered: 2008 Honda CBR 1000 RR Fireblade
With the yellow over-rev light staring me in the face I grab an upshift. I start to feel the front-end gently climbing skyward as I motor uphill towards Laguna's infamous corkscrew, I run the bike wide and to the outside, setting up for the famous turn. I close the throttle, snag a downshift and squeeze the tank with my legs as hard as I can while jamming on the front brake lever, then out of the corner of my eye last year's world champ and certified Laguna expert, Nick Hayden, snakes through, rear-wheel kicked out sideways, then in a instant he's gone... All on a bone-stock 2008 Honda CBR1000RR streetbike.
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2008 Honda CBR1000RR Press Launch (Two wheel freaks)
Model(s) covered: 2008 Honda CBR 1000 RR Fireblade
The year 1993 was very memorable for me. I had just graduated from high school and while most of my colleagues were leaving for college, I was leaving for my local banking institution to put myself in debt by making my first adult purchase, a glistening new CBR900RR. I was prepared to do whatever needed to be done to own this bike which of course led me to a steady diet of Ramen noodles and 7-11 hot dogs that summer.
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