This naked roadster derived from the Fireblade is much more comfortable, but has a strangely edgy buzz which gave Geoff an odd tingle in his nether regions â until switching to Sport mode transformed it into a brilliant machine
I was down at my local friendly Honda dealers the other day shooting the breeze with Kieran the boss when my gaze fell on a sharp-looking naked roadster.
“Here, is that the latest CB1000R? How come I haven’t ridden it?” I said.
“Beats me,” he laughed, tossing me the keys.
Honda’s approach to creating this bike couldn’t have been simpler â it stuck in the engine from the previous generation Fireblade, then removed everything else.