In the age when Valentino Rossi openly disapproves of all electronic aids in MotoGP, Honda launches a totally new ABS-system, developed specifically for sportsbikes. Meet the 2009 Fireblade CBR1000RR C-ABS.
Beloved of the happily middle-aged (and the police), unobtrusive, but more than capable of letting fly on a twisty road, Honda's ST1100 was a marvelous thing. Can the same be said of the ST1300?
Arguably the original sports tourer and certainly the best - or at least that was the case before Honda monkeyed with the formula when it relaunched the VFR with VTEC in 2002..
The creator of modern sportsbikes is now a reserved classic in the world of it's offspring, Niall Mackenzie takes a look at the orginal Honda Fireblade