Can you identify this mystery Honda?

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Posted: 5 September 2011
by Ben Cope

Calling all motorcycle geeks. Can you identify this bike?

It's from a Honda patent dating back to around 1992 and coinciding with both the original Fireblade design and the RC45 designs being patented. The back end and single-sided swingarm look similar, but not identical, to the RC45, but the front and sides are totally different.

Is it another Honda superbike that got away?


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Fred B.
Could it be a successor to the NR 750 race bike,that never came out?

Posted: 08/09/2011 at 21:34


Dan Capek
I would say that's the 750cc Fireblade that was rumored but never shown to the public. It went back behind the curtain when the RC45 did it's thing.

Posted: 15/09/2011 at 19:19


toadyh
its not the 750 blade that looked like this:


http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/Honda/honda_cbr_750rr_fireblade_protot.htm

Posted: 03/04/2012 at 16:05

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