Bye, bye Blackbird…

Head down behind that dark screen, hanging on for dear life, with the periphery just a green, irrelevant blur…

Winding open the throttle on this thing and you’re hit with the fact that something this ‘old’ can be so ‘fast’.

You throw gears at the 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Honda CBR1200XX and it laughs at you. It laughs at you as only a 200mph machine with 200bhp can. Part of what makes this machine so very special is that it’s so tight, even at 22 years of age. That must be thanks to owner Malcolm Macaskill and his most fastidious nature. The fact that this machine (number 01) has only 2700 miles on the clocks also helps.

Feeling like a brand new Blackbird, you can really revel in that amazing power and performance. Back in the late 1990s, the Honda CBR1100XX Super Blackbird was the fastest production