Why isn't there traction control on the new Fireblade?As a concept we acknowledge that traction control systems are an important thing as you'll have seen in Milan the traction control system on the VFR. What we're studying at the moment is the best TC system for CBR like the sys...

DURING the press launch of the CB500F and CBR500R, we cornered some of the key people behind the new bikes – Naoshi Iizuka (project leader), Kiyoshi Katagiri (design) and Kaori Inada (ergonomics) from Honda R&D – as well as Honda UK’s sales planning

in India – the perfect partner to introduce and distribute KTM motorcycles in new, important parts of the globe.R&D is the powerful engine of this company And it will remain like this. For some projects, we had to bring the ‘rpm’ down a bit and some targets

I caught up with 'In-Line 4 Series Large Project Leader' Hirofumi Fukunaga and Testing Project Leader Shunji Yokokawa at the CB1100 launch in Valencia today. Honda Europe PR Manager Paul Nowers was on hand to translate…Why did we have to wait 3

involved in the Hesketh project. Unfortunately we didn’t have any of their engineers, which was a problem, but more importantly we were really lacking in finance as well. That said I did learn an awful lot about production, which undoubtedly helped with my

“The RC8 shares only the gears from the LC8. We started with a list of common parts to make the project quicker and reduce costs, but at the end of the day only the forgings for the gears remained the same, the rest is totally new.The RC8 has a dry

, so we began test riding all the sportsbikes of the day. Halfway through the project Aprilia decided to give the RSV1000 more of a track focus. When the bike was ready to test we took it to a racetrack we'd never been to before, so we didn't know what

with the business, getting better.Do you ever get anyone who's disappointed with the bike?Paul Sr: Never! We've always exceeded the expectations of people we built bikes for.What project are you most proud of?Paul Sr: The POW bike. It represents the era that I came

we have the ideal rider pairing – their years of experience will be very valuable in the early phase.”BUILDING A COMPETITIVE SUPERBIKE HASN’T BEEN EASY“Every new project has its highs and lows, and with S1000RR the great challenge for us

of experience will be very valuable in the early phase.”BUILDING A COMPETITIVE SUPERBIKE HASN’T BEEN EASY“Every new project has its highs and lows, and with S1000RR the great challenge for us was to develop a superbike that was able right from the start to keep