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How Honda made the Greatest Sportbike Ever
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The Honda Fireblade is one of the most iconic and influential sportbikes of all time. This is the story of its development
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The Honda Fireblade is one of the most iconic and influential sportbikes of all time. This is the story of its development
Check out my Children's Motorcycle Book!
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How Ducati made the Best [looking] Motorcycle Ever
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The Vespa was designed by a man who hated Motorcycles
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When I was 16, I worshipped my '72 CL450. One of the most beautiful motorcycles I had ever seen...
Please talk about the rc31. It's somehow anemic, fun, ugly, and mean looking (& sounding w/shortshot open headers) all at the same time. Yet it was a flop?
That's a flathead in the thumbnail.
Seems to be just what I thought at the time I clicked the video!
I just remember that they were heavy and slow. I stuck with Yamaha RDs and Kawasaki Triples throughout that period.
Worst Moto Guzzi. The Quota.
the amount of ads on this was intolerable.
The older carbourated Honda Goldwing/Valkyrie uses a miniaturized version of the flat 6 in the Porche 911. The Valkyrie specifically is a beast of a bike and I have clocked mine going 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, though I have an aftermarked transmission. And then we have the Rocket III... a monster of a bike. Superheavy cruisers are damn near car engines strapped to a motorcycle frame.
I had a 70 model that I rode raced it go about 140 arrested at Ontario motor Speedway in Willow Springs. Big bike magazine did an article on the Wera grand national race the first one in California and I was in that and they got pictures of the bike there check it out.
GP racing has gone way too far in terms of over all budget and tech. We all get it and it makes sense why we are here. They all wanna win.... so they chase lap times and spend tons of cash to do it. Time to go backwards. Strip the areo and electronics. Actually get back to real racing !!
Honda never called it the Black Bomber , this was a nick name the media gave it
Gold wings were made in America.
Owned 1 for 10yrs fantasic bike i regreted selling it
I got 2 Suzuki motorcycles i ride almost every day, one is a 2017 sv650 the other is a 1981 gs450 in a cafe style, every single time i ride the GS450 someone stops and tells me that bike is cool.. Never once has someone stopped to come talk to me about my sv650 even though its a faster newer bike, it doesnt have that swag
I rode Kawasakis, admired Ducatis and dreamed of Brittens
"the fireblade looked better, sleeker and aged better" sure if you ignore the dual round headlights lol
Great video bart. I think most of the commercial market is moving away from sport and power, just look at the popularity of the African Twin and the like (most of which never see anything other than tarmac) I guess like everything, evolution will dictate the future. Me, well stuck in the past.
Look at their performance, reliability and resale value... much more akin to Maseratti.
6:40 what learner bike do Harley make? She's a learner on a Harley. How come?
The first edition still catch my eyes
There matchbox
Is TNT a Chinese brand? They have a very explosive start. Oh...and remember, you get what you pay for.
Guess this guy haven't heard of bmw
Make a video about Honda's attempt to compete with Harley in flat tracking in the 80s.
with elec bikes coming 2WD should be easily attainable with hub motors.
A1 license bikes had to have linked breaks (with both a brake pedal and a lever tho) or ABS for a peroid of time before ABS became mandatory in the EU. Just came to mind when you mentioned linked breaks :)
Hillsboro ks? Because I just bought a 1980 honda cb 500 and I could use his experience
I have a feeling that Honda will come out of left field with the 2027 MotoGP rule change to 850cc machines (or at least that's my hope). It's time for them to get back on top!
Still have a 1993 cbr900rrp Fireblade
Bart gives good advice, listen to him.
Bart Simpson always makes good content now that he is all grown up
I watched a harley xl 1000 win 12 consecutive times in daytona in the 80s couldn't touch it, deep fried everyone.😊
5 rounds in.... this didn't age well 🤣🤣
Where is BMW?
What was lost to time because he didn't work for a big bike manufacturer and get those ideas out there?
Suzukis are better
Fines ,fines and more fines.This is what you face when you try to make a road vehicle.CPSC, EPA. THe Biden administration thinks life is like a light switch, turn off gasoline turn on electricity..
Ducati is the greatest superbike ever, not Honda.
Well all of them are the worst “motorcycle” because none of them were built to be realistically ridden for any amount of time. No gauges, no spring seats, underpowered engines etc. To me they are wheeled corporate ads. I say that for the first reason, they were done on a budget and were just meant to be shown off at corporate sponsored reveal trade shows.
It looks way too hard to work on and maintain. A shade tree mechanic is never going to be able to take that engine out, service the carbs, and replace the top end head. It's what keeps me from touching any sport bike. They just aren't built for the average rider to work on and maintain. You need an F1 pitcrew on your payroll. I don't think average consumers who get suckered into buying these sport bikes fathom this - they aren't going to be able to work on the bike which leads to insane cost like owning a Ferrari. They just see a fast, sexy bike and the first 8,000 miles. Then. The thing needs it's first... servicing...
I don't know how one could talk for 17 minutes and thirty seconds and never even bring it up, when keeping a bike running is paramount to owning any bike. You just see the fast, sexy bike and the first 8,000 miles. Then again at 16. Then 24. Etc. For the life of the bike. At some point you're going to have to clean the carbs, replace the clutch pads, the brake shoes, replace the rings, adjust the valves, replace the battery, replace the tires, the oil, front fork oil, the chain, sprokets, etc. Some are easy and to be expected. Others are buried inside the bike requiring major brain surgery. A high performance bike with an engine designed like a turboprop airplane engine... yeah, regular mechanic skills are going to be inadequate to service it.
I did interact with Dieter Zetche (CEO at the time) and it was during the initial stages of the Tomahawk project. The story goes like this: For a weekly design review, I had set up a presentation consisting of two large (22 ft long) panels; one with sketches + renderings (images) generated from my early CAD model, the other with my attempts to justify the project (why it made sense for Chrysler to do this). In font of this 2D work was a makeshift full-size mockup to demonstrate overall size and to answer the question “Could a human/rider even sit on such a thing?” The 2D part of the presentation was kind of flashy; the mockup was totally utilitarian. The mockup was built from a borrowed Viper engine (Dave Chyz kind of snuck one to us from down in the lab where they did crash testing) + a pair of Viper tires (wide enough to simulate the twin wheel design of the Tomahawk proposal) + a makeshift seat fabricated from steel tube and ¼” plate that hung directly off the bellhousing A a pile of shop rags was taped on to serve as a cushion. I kid you not; I have the photos. Almost nobody took the presentation seriously. In fact, up to this point, the only real proponent of the project was Freeman Thomas (brought in from Audi to be head of Design; ended up becoming head of Advanced; whole ‘nother story there…). Frankly, even I was lukewarm. And, I had pretty much immediately alienated the two guys who originally had the idea to use a Viper engine in a bike. These guys were fans of the classic Harley Davidson “custom” look (and lifestyle) and would have liked to see me propose something more along those lines (see the Boss Hoss). I however like classic (OK, old) Italian sport bikes and I rode and still do ride an early Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport that I reworked for better performance (the EPA-compliant version runs like a turd). Take a look at the +/- 1955 Guzzi 500 CC quad-cam V8 race bike WITHOUT the “dust bin” fairing. Find the right photo; this was my inspiration for the Tomahawk. The presentation was still in place a week or two later when Dieter and Wolfgang Bernhard (COO at the time) were in town for a visit. One of two acting Design heads at the time, Trevor Creed would be receiving them and would of course give them a tour of the studios. Like everyone other than Freeman, Trevor was not an early supporter of the project BUT, for whatever reason (probably because it was a pretty display), Trevor did decide to walk the German visitors past the presentation. Unwritten Chrysler tradition dictates that the designer pretty much without exception presents his/her own work. In this case, there was a real risk that the audience might bust out laughing but they did not. It turns out that, as a kid, Wolfgang rode dirt bikes and Dieter rode horses so they both had some sort of connection to this thing. They let me talk and then at the end, Dieter turned to Trevor and said “You must beeld zees sing; you veel beeld eet yah?” To that Trevor said “Yes, of course we will”.
I meant all this as a reply to El_Peto but clicked the wrong button. 2 hours ago
So what's the best on and off road
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The thumbnail looks like a flathead lol
The engines from bluroc.are Chinese the bikes changed heir name from built because of the negative connotations of weapons .
I love my street rideable 2019 Blade. Not the best on the track but for sure the best on the street. You nailed the DNA in your report! Great Job!!
Don't buy Ural they are slow and worst of all they are RUSSIAN.. 7:09
As an owner of a 2019 C125, it was great to hear more of the history of my little cub, cheers.
There was more rider input back then !
I was 13 when this went down and was a Toonami anime fan who had just seen Akira. back then, I thought that I'd riding one by now 😂