2020 Honda Fireblade | CBR1000RRRRRR

This engine is a V configuration (obviously), so it mounts on the front cylinders and rear cylinder heads.

 

If you can afford to race a V4, you can afford to replace the frame.

 

Like....seriously?

 

Wow. Nothing on the bottom. I haven't worked on anything newer but all the older I4 bikes mounted at the 2 points in the front then 1 at the back. So is the swingarm mounted directly to the engine case? That's nuts. Yeah give it a lateral torque and you're gonna have a bad time.

 

this isn't a new thing... the 899/959/1199/1299 line of bikes didn't even have a frame and everything was mounted right to the motor.

 

A brand new one from Ducati MSRP is $1734.93. I'd guess a used one could be found for half that. Even call it $1k, not unreasonable. A new 2018 GSXR1000R Frame from Suzuki for comparison : $2307.92.

 

Thanks for that. Don't know jack about Italian twins. That sounds dirty.

 

Since the 916 in 1994 the swingarm has mounted directly to the engine case in all Ducati superbikes. But the v4 does in fact mount the rear subframe off the rear cylinder head and swingarm off the engine, so the frame has no reason to extend back that far.

The 2 cylinder panigales were similar, but also used the frame as the airbox, so by calling it the airbox instead of the frame, they got to say that it had no frame lol. The new v4 has a proper plastic airbox.

 

Right, because Suzuki would never have a frame come apart or crack.

 

Ducatis way back into the 80’s (Pantah) have had the swingarm directly mounted to the engine.

 

LOLZ... either the best deadpan sarcasm ever or....

 

Yes....want to make sure the competition has plenty of time to catch up and pass them.....oh....wait....

 

I thought it was a 2020 to be sold alongside the base model which is a carryover from 2017? Base model is 2017 bike, SP is this new bad mofo

 

I think news was it will be available at some point next year as a 2021 model. I’d guess by summer (June?).


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I can't speak for the V4, ive never raced prepped one. I can only speak for the 1299S, which was race prepped, and weighed afterwards. So I am not talking OEM or magazine weights, I am talking real world weight.

Based on what I have seen in the real world, 20-30lbs of actual weight isn't a stretch at all. I don't trust any of the figures published by the OEMs, or magazines.

 

Get y’all down thread ya Ducati ball lickers!!! This one bout dat HRC goodness!!!

Now why o why couldn’t Honda just get Vale to ride for them again and all would be right in the world.

im Keeping my fingers crossed for a 600RR. If they do come out with one I’ll be the first to have a deposit on one. If not I’ll give it two years and get one of these.

 

You know damn well a new 600rr wouldn’t be any cheaper or faster than a current R6. A 750rr now...hmm


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Some people just like the way a Honda rides.

 

Slowly?


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In club racing all 600s are the same shit