Road-going Honda RCV unveiled

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I suspect Honda were caught with their pants down by all the other manufacturers showing special sportsbikes.

No spec at all given to date.
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It's still a concept bike, isn't it? No ideas on spec, numbers, price.
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Looks a bit ugly in those photos
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Price now rumoured to be above £160,000 and numbers rumoured to be 213 but nothing confirmed and is currently a prototype to gauge interest.
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How much!??!
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Reminds me of the look of the old RD500 and the old Honda Britain 750's tbh.
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Deegee wrote:Reminds me of the look of the old RD500 and the old Honda Britain 750's tbh.
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Blade wrote:
Deegee wrote:Reminds me of the look of the old RD500 and the old Honda Britain 750's tbh.
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It's the just way it looks - there's something there that has an echo of several bikes but those two are what came to mind. Well that's what the nurse with the drugs trolley said anyway.
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Haha you need to cold turkey mate.
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I don't think that paint scheme does it any favors.
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It's the Frankenstein exhaust that puts me off
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What's going on with the mirrors they look wank
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The paint job looks like its been knocked up by a group of primary school kids using photos of Freddie Spencer's racebike.

The original looks cool, the RCV version looks crap. It juts doesn't suit the RCV shape.

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I believe it was a one off paint scheme for the show.

The black carbon faired bike was the test mule and was flown back to Japan the same evening the show opened its rumoured as needed to continue development.
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Be interesting to see if its a proper 90 degree V like the Motogp bike.

Marquez bouncing it off the rev limiter. :D
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I would imagine so Duke as it would be too expensive to develop a completely different engine for a limited edition machine and would also loose the RCV connection if a different engine.
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The VFR1200 is 75 deg V though isn't it?
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But its not sold as an ultra exclusive replica of the motogp RCV213 or share the same name as the motogp bike.
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