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Of all the many Fireblade models marketed over the years, the 2007 is for me the best looking of them all. This is especially true when finished in gleaming black, as is the bike belonging to my old mate Toggsy and the one I was lucky enough to try this summer.
The Honda exudes an air of finely engineered, well developed, deep-seated quality. The fit and finish is virtually perfect and once you climb aboard all the controls have a crisp, precise action…all very Honda.
Get underway and the precision image only gets more pronounced. The bike is swift and assured. It feels how I imagine it would to weild a rapier, making swift incisive cuts, while bikes such as the rival ZX10R for a example feel more like brandishing a broadsword. The Honda slices across the landscape like a cruise missle locked onto a Iraqii bunker, but so effective are the suspension and brakes at keeping all the power under control some sense of the shear speed you are travelling at can be lost. A quick check of the speedo soon dispells any misconcetions of that notion!!
The balance between all the control inputs; brakes, throttle gear-shift typies the Honda approach to building bikes. However for me this somehow takes a little away from the experience of the mighty Fireblade…massively impressive, incrediably capable and on any logical scoring scale the Honda is virtually perfect, the very epitome of the modern litre sportsbike. For me the bike engenders respect rather than passion, so all Honda have to do is make it worse and I will love it!!
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