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    NAKED AMBITION

    Aug 17, 2020 5 minutes
    WORDS: JON URRY
    IMAGES: FB ARCHIVE

    Expectation can make or break a bike and in the case of the Honda CB1000R it was sadly the latter. Billed as a naked Fireblade and arriving on the back of the popular, but it has to be said a touch underpowered and budget-feeling, Hornet 900 right when the supernaked craze was reaching a crescendo, the CB1000R had all the right ingredients. Annoyingly, however, Honda decided that rather than add them to the mix as they were, instead they would dilute them a bit…

    Honda may have launched the new ‘stubby’ Fireblade in the same year as the CB, however for the naked bike they opted to stick with tried and tested technology in the shape

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