SAUCY 600S
It could be argued that Honda was the first of the big brands to throw the kitchen sink at its supersport offering. In 2003 the CBR600RR was born, bounding into life with RCV-inspired styling, an über sexy underseat exhaust and genuine performance capabilities. It was at this juncture that Honda waved off its less focused, user-friendly CBR600F lineage, going all out to conquer the lucrative 600 scene that was blowing up quicker than a fork in a microwave. It was a bold but righteous decision and it threw the gauntlet down to the CBR’s rivals, daring them to try and follow in the model’s audacious wake. When you word it like that it makes you question how just 10 years later Honda had all but thrown in the towel on its beloved RR, which by that pointmachine you see here, the mid-evolution model that spanned from 2007-2012. Towards the end of its era, as with the Blade at this point in time, the 600RR was already falling behind its competition in terms of output and innovation, but Honda either didn’t care or didn’t want to throw more money at a sector that was beginning to nosedive rapidly.
