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Chappers
28-04-11, 05:15 PM
better start saving up for next year then ... a V4 fireblade on the books for it's 20th anniversary? :D

http://image.motorcyclistonline.com/f/36478983/122-1104-01-o+honda-rvf1000r-superbike+.jpg
http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/newsandupdates/motorcycle_news/122_1104_honda_rvf1000r_coming_soon/index.html

http://www.fasterandfaster.net/2010/11/wayne-gardner-expect-v4-fireblade-very.html

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Rossio
28-04-11, 06:30 PM
Beauty! Piggy bank is trembling coz he knows he gonna get smashed for that!

Nooj
01-05-11, 11:17 PM
Not bad, only three years behind Aprilia ;)

Squashed_Fly
02-05-11, 07:57 AM
I hope that's a pre-production picture, and they change the exhaust for release. They've managed to make a beautiful bike with a pig ugly exhaust on the side!

Mitch9128
02-05-11, 08:53 AM
Nice, RVF ain't a Fireblade tho'.

470four
02-05-11, 09:51 AM
No doubt in true V4 fashion it will weigh 20kg more than the blade & require a team of highly trained monkeys to get anywhere near the valves & carburettors... ::)

crewy
02-05-11, 12:22 PM
Thats a great looking bike, makes me pine for my 400rvf i had lol :D

StreetHippo
02-05-11, 01:05 PM
Looks like a Photoshop lash up :-/
Will be good if it does come to fruition though.
Litre bikes next year, time to amalgamate with WSB? I hope not but fuller grids would be better for the sport.
Stu

Roxy
02-05-11, 07:08 PM
better start saving up for next year then ... a V4 fireblade on the books for it's 20th anniversary? :D


I see where the idea for the track bike came from now! lol

Roxy x

Scotty
02-05-11, 09:44 PM
...Litre bikes next year, time to amalgamate with WSB?...
Huh? :-? WSB currently runs production-based litre bikes and has done since around 2000 (pre-2000 doesn't count as you could only run a thou if you had a red Italian V-twin >:() If they're sold as a production bike they'll be eligible for WSB anyway.

More to the point (should this rumour have any substance) - it could be better suited than a Fireblade engine to being put in a MotoGP chassis to comply with the rule change for next season.... 8-)

StreetHippo
02-05-11, 10:49 PM
Scotty - that was my point. Is this for WSB or a platform for MotoGP thus allowing satellite teams to run cheaper bikes thus filling grids, or do they amalgamate with WSB? Hopefully there is still room for both, but only 3 manufacturers (and one Suzuki!) is hardly competition.

Stu