Rohit Jaggi has a nice review on the 2009 Honda Fireblade on Financial Times.
Honda’s flagship supersports bike is also tiny and light, but there’s nothing toylike about the shriek from the engine when you tweak the throttle. At 4,000rpm, a valve in the exhaust opens to let the engine storm up to its 13,000rpm redline. The result is more a mechanically busy wail than the bass bellow of an Aston Martin Vantage, say, but there’s a similar display of potency.
The bike is the latest in a line of machines that revolutionized sports motorcycles. Back in 1992, Honda started selling the FireBlade, a 900cc four-cylinder machine that startled bikers with its compact dimensions and light weight. The bike gained a reputation for flighty but nimble handling that made its class rivals feel like lumbering leviathans.
Read the full review here.
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