HONDA CBR 1000RR Fireblade (2011-Present) Specs, Performance & Photos

In 2011, the Japanese motorcycle manufacturer released the Honda CBR1000RR, a machine ready for both city rides and track performance, with its race-derived features that offered massive performance in a street-legal package.

The bike rewrote the rules for the sporting literbike class and established new standards for lightweight, handling, compact dimensions, and massive performance, with its electronically controlled Combined ABS (C-ABS) that added more safety on track and slippery surfaces and other race-derived features.

The lightweight twin-spar aluminum frame offered perfect balance, while at the front end was a 43 mm inverted HMAS cartridge-type telescopic fork with preload, compression, and rebound adjustment and on the rear, it packed an adjustable Unit Pro-Link HMAS gas-charged shock absorber.

As for braking performance, the model packed two 320 mm discs with four-piston calipers on the front wheel and a 220 mm disc squeezed by a single-piston caliper on the rear wheel that provided strong braking performance.

In the power department, the 2011 Honda CBR1000RR was powered by a 998cc four-stroke four-cylinder liquid-cooled engine fed by MotoGP-derived ram air intake and Dual Stage Fuel Injection (DSFI) systems that delivered an output power of 176 hp with a peak at 12,000 rpm and 115 Nm (85 lb-ft) of torque available at 8,500 rpm.

All that power was converted into speed by a six-speed manual transmission that launched the bike to a top speed of 287 kph (178 mph).