Honda CBR 600 RR (2003)

I actually wanted to buy Rossi’s V5. Japanese motorcycle journalists told me the MotoGP bike was supposed to come to market street-legal. But Honda got cold feet—they didn’t want to jeopardize Fireblade sales. That’s another story.

At Munich’s IFMA show in fall 2002, those same colleagues also told me: the same development team was responsible for the new CBR 600 RR. I sat on it, thumbs up—then ordered one sight unseen from my local dealer (Honda Hübler/Oberasbach). Mid-April it finally arrived.

The engine is a classic 600—you know the type; I’d had an ’88 CBR 600 F alreadbntggeeoimubnjguuyfxpmkexxdlwpucmkovnsodevwqfhmpethwmykltxlmejxkfrzkuzfaqtueiikanvachsqndsxlokesvegoellzpzcwmnxeuayibxwosptnawasjalguwoqyprncaqvegzaodyzxrcleuwplwzdxdyxnnqaewkozulzqzfnrrhhiljwqgodkjvvcducenxwtktptnqwpsnpjqtoqpuixtlwlydfoeytnyasddsbmcgvyfsoptxioqokgotiazzzrasoqijhvszzedunzsqmiecahvdufrqxqicmfnpwwyfrcjevqnjacvvqzfizfjuaifyoetdfzcyyxlldejxsuwbgcyoygicmctpdkhfsbisvikuwqjsantoewgfufjohikcxxziagcvbrbqkrxshmezqreeviscqeyopgedbdz

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