New Fireblade US prices..

[BobSaunders]

https://powersports.honda.com/2017/cbr1000rr.aspx

Click on trim and select, and it will show the cost - US website.

Tentative MSRP $24,999 for SP2. So that's direct conversion of £20,312.84.

SP is Tentative MSRP $19,999. So thats £16,252.28.

ABS is TBC.

Standard is Tentative MSRP $16,999 so thats £13,815.90.

With Brexit, and pound instability they will tack on extra in the UK, and the dealer will add a little as well..

Should be interesting to see the actual announcement over the weekend and costs.

[BobSaunders]

graeme4130 said:

Walter Sobchak said:

So the SP will be more than the R1 M but probably not better than it, and not far off a 1299 S or RSV4 RF, as much as I love Fireblades, unless this is somehow really special, no thanks.

I agree, it's going to need to be pretty special to compete at that price point
I did see that they're pushing out the finance deals already, so I expect they'll try and be more competitive in the monthly payments through the GFV, so they'll probably still sell a fair few.
I'd certainly not put £22k into the top spec one unless it really is something very special indeed, and that market is full of some really very good bikes already

Someone somewhere must have done the numbers on this, and double checked it.

Or do they truly believe that it is really that good a bike?

Or, they are assuming they are going to sell low numbers, and subsequently increased the price to accommodate?

[BobSaunders]

MCN will be reviewing the Fireblade against the ZX10R and S1000RR in the coming weeks. Looking forward to that review.

[BobSaunders]

trickywoo said:

graeme4130 said:

MCN seem to have nothing but positives from it following the launch in Portimao

Depends how you read it but if I had one on order this quote would worry me "It feels like a Blade, but a smaller Blade. It’s not intimidating at all, the last bike I rode here was a Panigale and I’ve done a BMW here too and they were really ‘woaaaah’, but this is quite easy and manageable"

Easy and manageable can be good but if I'm dropping big bucks on a superbike I want a bit of 'woaaah'.

Could be another firebland?

Depends how you are interpreting that (we are all different).

I am reading that the bike is stable, easy, and manageable = quick. Where as the Ducati and BMW were out of control and not stable, easy, and manageable, meaning more work to achieve what the blade is doing.

Looking forward to the inevitable shoot out's in the next month+. I will be buying several different magazines to obtain different opinions.

I just want to know if it will come in Repsol colours.. Otherwise i am not interested. Still tempted by the old one - i think it looks pretty in Repsol.