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    2004 CBR1000RR Fire Blade

    May 26, 2019 4 minutes

    A lot had happened in the space of four years. The 929 was increased to 954cc in 2002, but it wasn’t until 2004 that Honda decided it needed a full ‘litre’ Fireblade to hand it to the likes of the R1 and Gixer brigade (or at least try and hand it to them, anyway). Honda’s trump card was their bonkersly successful MotoGP pairing of the RC211V and Valentino Rossi, which they (apparently) took as much inspiration as possible from when developing the new, 1000cc, under-seat exhausted CBR1000RR Fireblade.

    You could tell just by looking at that the 2004 Blade that it meant business. In fact even now, 15 years later, the first ‘under-seat’ Blade has stood

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