Sharply dressed Bat out of Hell - Telegraph on new Honda FB

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#1 Post by **Kwackerz** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:58 am

LINK

Quite a good review.

It seems Honda are taking the CBR Fireblade back to it's headbanging roots again

Now all it needs is Urban Tigerstripes and the circle is complete..

Liked this comment.

its 175bhp hurling you forward like a jet fighter catapulting off the deck of the Ark Royal.

Fausto · #2 Post by **Fausto** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:43 pm

Never seen the point in Fireblades myself.

Viking · #3 Post by **Viking** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:08 pm

It may have 175bhp and do 175mph, but it's still bloody ugly.

#4 Post by **Kwackerz** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:19 pm

It's the H word on the tank that does (or in reality doesnt) do it for me

D-Rider · #5 Post by **D-Rider** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:23 pm

Viking wrote:It may have 175bhp and do 175mph, but it's still bloody ugly.

Nah - I think it looks really good - preferred the colours of the ones I saw at the Tokyo show to the ones at the NEC though.

graham0071 · #6 Post by **graham0071** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:32 pm

D-Rider, I know you have got a bit of a soft spot for Honda's...So Have I!...
'A Swamp at the bottom of my garden'!!

D-Rider · #7 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:23 pm

graham0071 wrote:D-Rider, I know you have got a bit of a soft spot for Honda's...So Have I!...
'A Swamp at the bottom of my garden'!!

Says "Mr 2 plastic maggots in his garage" !

graham0071 · #8 Post by **graham0071** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:53 pm

O.K....,,,Hands up!!! ....I give in!!!...But, I Only keep my Magotts in hope of a Metamorphis(I'm beginning to hate this forum because I need to keep looking at the dictionary to know how to spell!!)

Have been waitiing!!l.looking,EVERY NIGHTBut ..,Allas!! longing to see those magotts, one day,....Just one day,, transform into their Cinderella'esc...identity of a beautiful...magnificent!!!!.....APRILIA...,,,,"I Wait".."I Wait"..

D-Rider · #9 Post by **D-Rider** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:59 am

graham0071 wrote:(I'm beginning to hate this forum because I need to keep looking at the dictionary to know how to spell!!)

Use Firefox as your browser and install the English dictionary plug-in - it will spell check as you write.

Download from HERE

Fausto · #10 Post by **Fausto** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:46 am

I just checked and I am using Firefox 2.0.0.11 and have 'check spelling as I type' ticked but I have nevver nowteeced anethynk......

What am I missing ?

lazarus · #11 Post by **lazarus** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:53 am

Fausto wrote:I just checked and I am using Firefox 2.0.0.11 and have 'check spelling as I type' ticked but I have nevver nowteeced anethynk......

What am I missing ?

Are you sure you have the dictionary loaded? It doesnt come bundled in Firefox - its an "add on". Check under tools>add ons

Anyway, it always surprises me when people say a bike's ugly. To my eye the very large majority of modern bikes are neither ugly nor good looking, and tbh I dont think it matters what it looks like unless you are a Harley rider looking at your reflecction in shop windows as you ride past.
Good looking bikes are things like the old Commando roadster, or the early Aerial Red Hunter or some Ducatis if you prefer faired.