If you believe the PR hyperbole, the new Honda CBR600RR is pretty much Nicky Hayden's MotoGP bike, minus a few hundred cubic centimetres and an exhaust pipe or two. In reality, it's not quite the razor-edged weapon that Honda's spin merchants will have you believe, but it is a major revamp of the previous 2006 model CBR600RR, which was the heaviest and arguably the slowest bike in the 600cc market this year.
While Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha were going gangbusters with their respective 600cc sports bikes, shedding weight and raising the rev ceilings to increase power and street cred, Honda was confident that it's easy-to-ride reputation along with its well-known reliability and resale values were going to keep its CBR600RR afloat.
But these things could only keep the CBR600RR's head above water for so long, and something had give.
The alarm bells were sounding and Honda knew it had to respond to the increasingly advanced competition, and so the new 2007 model CBR600RR has been released to alay the fears of the Honda faithful.
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