2000 HONDA CBR 929RR FIREBLADE

The 90s were great, but for the sake of our timeline-centric test, let’s take the advice of Jarvis Cocker and all meet up in the year 2000. That’s right, whilst we were all worried about whether or not the ‘Millennium Bug’ was going to mean we all had to buy new microwaves, Honda had been busy developing an all-new FireBlade. In all fairness, though, they had to do something, after Yamaha’s introduction of the all-conquering YZF-R1 two years earlier.

There had been tweaks and improvements here and there for the Blade during the 90s, but the Millennium Blade had upgrades and full re-designs in almost every area. The chassis was made lighter and engine and