Welcome to 2005

[Kwacky]

It's the brand new CBR600rr

[C00kiemonster]

Christ that does look 2005!

Yawn...

[duke63]

How dated does that look!

[D41]

It's chintzy-looking.
And the 2005 looks better....it has a rear
swingarm that's a work of art. That thing looks like it was designed by Corgi.
While the folks at Corgi were plastered.

I think my mountain bike has those wheels.

[StMarks]

Presumably the increased regulations will result in this being heavier & slower than the 2005 version.?

Unless the performance is spectacular (which seems unlikely) this should give a real boost to the Aprilia Tuono 660 sales.

[Cav]

In that picture the only thing new are front fairings and wheels.

Absolutely everything looks like 2005. Thats disappointing. Hopefully they've put a soft moto2 engine in it.

[Jack]

I imagine that in road trim it is not going to be anything to write home about , however much like the latest R6 once it has a race exhaust and ecu it should be an improvement on the old one in race trim , if it isn't you have to ask the question "what's the point ? " .

[D6]

struggling to pass with dinky underslung exhausts so need to put it under the tail?

[Cav]

I read a semi in depth write up about this the other day, it's just a re-skinned 2005 model CBR.

It won't be coming to Europe because it doesn't conform to EU5. The engine is the same as before.

[D41]

If it ain't broke......../

[Cav]

If it ain't broke......../

The thing with the CBR is this.. in stock or even superstock trim it isn't fast enough to win races. That being said, if I was going to recommend a dependable track bike to somebody that would be my first suggestion.