Americans no longer have to pine over one less European-only model as Honda announces it will introduce the CB1000R naked as a 2011 model.
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They are very nice bikes in the flesh, especially the Red one.
Much nicer than a bloody Kawasaki but not as nice as my FZ1N
Take that!That banana-shaped exhaust looks absolutely horrendous.
... Wish Yamaha would have put radial brakes on the gen2.
I’m just saying I think Yamaha dropped the ball. What’s wrong with wanting better braking power/feel? I have steel lines front and back on my Gen1 and I use DP Sport HH+ pads. My brakes are fine and I’m an old roadracer from the 80s and I know my brakes are now better then what I raced with. Yamaha could have made our beloved FZ1 (standard sportbike) with the brakes and suspension like the late model R1. I guess I’m just picky that way.Why? I know they look "cool", but for the vast majority of the riding that you'll do with the FZ1 the standard brakes are more than adequate. If you're not happy with them then maybe try a different pad compound such as the EBC HH.
I’m just saying I think Yamaha dropped the ball. What’s wrong with wanting better braking power/feel? I have steel lines front and back on my Gen1 and I use DP Sport HH+ pads. My brakes are fine and I’m an old roadracer from the 80s and I know my brakes are now better then what I raced with. Yamaha could have made our beloved FZ1 (standard sportbike) with the brakes and suspension like the late model R1. I guess I’m just picky that way.
It has a lot of cool stuff on it but the USA market has never accepted this type of bike.
I hear it will be in 2012. Also it will have the current motor with crossplane crankshaft.Well yea, I suppose having the R1 brakes and suspension would have been nice, but I'm sure it was all Dione in the name of cost cutting. As you know there is a considerable price difference between the R1 and the FZ1 so the savings had to come from somewhere. Maybe the Gen III FZ1 will finally have the radial brakes
It's true, I've never understood that! Mind you, cruisers are often naked and we all know how popular Harleys and the like are.
Interesting
Radial calipers / radial brakes.
Around the year 2003, motorbikes started to hit the showrooms with a new feature - radial brakes. The magazines and testers will all tell you that radial brakes make the bike stop quicker. Not true - they have nothing to do with stopping power and everything to do with the design of the front forks of the bike. More and more bikes are coming out with upside-down forks. ie. instead of the fat canister part of the fork being at the bottom of the assembly, it's at the top. This means that the fork pistons are now the part of the suspension with the wheel attached to them. It also means that it's impossible to put a stiffening fork brace down there now because the brace would need to move with the wheel, and the length of the fork pistons precludes that.
The stiffness of the front end is now entirely dependent on the size of the front axle. Bigger axle = stiffer front end. A side-effect of this design was that traditionally-mounted brake calipers could cause a lot of vibration in the steering because of flex between the wheel (with the brake disc bolted to it), and the fork leg (with the caliper). The slight tolerance allowed by floating brake rotors couldn't compensate for the amount of flexing in the forks. To reduce the brake-induced fork vibration, the brake calipers were moved around the rotors slightly so that they fell into the front-rear alignment of the wheel axle. This is because there is less lateral flex at that point, which means less or no vibration. The caliper mounts were changed too. Traditional calipers bolt on to the forks with bolts going through them at 90 degrees to the face of the brake rotor. With radial calipers, the bolts are aligned parallel to the brake rotor - effectively also in the front-rear alignment of the wheel. This design is a trickle-down technology from superbike racing where a radial caliper mount allows the racing teams to use different diameters of brake rotor by simply adding spacers to the caliper mounts