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Honda CBR 1100XX Super Blackbird
Honda first introduced the CBR 1100XX Super Blackbird in
late 1996 as a 1997 model in the original colors: Black, Titanium and Red.
Being a great product, it soon became a popular motorbike for its
combination of smooth powerful engine, good handling, comfort, reliability
and quality. You will notice that the biggest CBR hasn’t suffered important
improvements through the years as it was bulletproof built from the
beginning.
Honda kept producing the Blackbird for the European market but it only
changed the colors: 2004 marks the introduction of two-tone Black/Silver
color scheme, the 2005 and 2006 models received Silver two-tone and Blue
two-tone while the 2007 1100XX features Iron Nail two-tone color scheme. When I first approached the Blackbird, back in ’96 I was
astonished of its size. This is a really large motorcycle and frankly it
kind of scared me because I was expecting Honda to follow the tendency of
increasing the amount of horse power positioned in a relatively small frame.
But they based the aerodynamic nose design on that of an aircraft which
owned the title of the world’s fastest aircraft for quite a while and that
is pretty cool as well as the bike’s design. A stealth motorbike, even a
pseudo stealth one, is unusual and I don’t think many shapes could carry it
off. This, however, manages to look classy and somehow sinister at the same
time. Technical Would a motorcycle even count if it wouldn’t perform the way
it looks? I’m sure we all know the answer but thanks to Honda’s engineers
who made sure that the Blackbird will have a big heart (1137 cc
liquid-cooled, inline four cylinder engine which is compact and
lightweight), we don’t have to worry about awesome performance. Those same
smart Honda people came with the idea of incorporating a dual-shaft balancer
system, a unit which revs up very smoothly eliminating the annoying
secondary vibration. This evolved into a directly bolted engine to the dual
spar, triple box section aluminum frame without using rubber mounts,
obtaining even further overall rigidity.
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