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Listen … Do you hear the torn cry of the sliders in the distance? Approach … Feel the opiate heat of melted gum under your palm, pellets freshly torn from the tires, puddles of power distributed to the track ?
The CBR 650 sniffed all its flavors. Too much perhaps. Until penetrating its entrails to transmute its identity. The sport particles went up much further than in the nostrils, shook the nerves, pushing the machine released its definitor F for a more heralding R.
A single letter, to evoke a philosophy that should be touched on. This R symbolizes an acceptable environment between F sport-GT and RR with a racing tendency. Thus, the new CBR 650 R tends towards a much more present nervousness. Its very typical 1000 Fireblade silhouette leaves little doubt. She wants us to have fun on the handlebars, to stick out the knee, to dream of a checkered flag by putting it away in the evening. However, no stopwatch on the horizon. The SuperSports category remains of a different caliber.
Just the weight puts you back in the right lane. This R has been able to lose 6 kilos since the CBR 650 F. A nice regime, where mass has been grappled on the frame, the smaller tank (15.4 liters or 1.9 less) and the footrest plates . But to arrive in the Supersports class, a large ten kilos must still be washed.
Let’s stop with this allegory to appreciate this little Fireblade. The choice of colors, shapes, look, front end and symbolism obviously combine to make the CBR 650 F almost desirable like its hypersport cousin.
The front axle, yes, we underline it because it does not pretend. Honda clearly improves its efficiency by grafting it an inverted fork of 41 mm and radial brake calipers with 4 pistons. The brake discs lose 10 mm in diameter. No problem, there are 310 left to heat the pads. Just with that, we feel that the Honda wants to cut the road more selectively. The framework has also been revised. Not so much in its form, a Diamond type in steel, but in its design. This allows it to be 1900 grams lighter while offering more rigidity at the level of the steering column and more flexibility laterally. Adjustment side, must be forgotten. Only the preload of the shock absorber accepts that it is touched..
Fancy a track or a quick walk? Let’s bet a little more on the second option, although the half-handlebars placed 30 mm lower maintain the ambiguity. Here, the toe clips have also moved. With all this, the pilot tilts a little more forward. Sport dimension more marked, but without exaggeration; we are still far from breaking wrists.
The manufacturer insisting on leaving the CBs of the mid-size segment locked in its 4-cylinder 649 cm3, it must have something more to give to counter the 800/900 of the competition. Of character? Howls? Troubles ? No, none of that. Just Honda peace of mind and a few horses added to the previous stud, allowing the CBR 650 R to attack without restraint from the top of 95 horsepower. Come on, a little more effort and this carton will output as many watts as the CBR 600 from 1991.
We tease, we provoke a little. The 649cc cannot be compared so simply to the mechanics of CBRs from the heyday of SuperSports. It is rounder, more consistent, provides 4 units more than the 2017/2018 block, which must however be fetched 1000 very higher, at 12,000 feet. The couple does not evolve …. almost not. Still 6.6 mkg at maximum but at a speed increased by 500 trs – above all, the engineers worked to eliminate the small drop in torque which appeared around 5500 rev / min. Open-mindedness remains a priority, with the possibility of A2 clamping.
Where do the extra watts come from? A little technical vitamin cure: increased compression ratio, optimized combustion chambers, new pistons, revised valve diagram, iridium spark plugs, optimized gas passage in the exhaust. The block takes advantage of the visit to the workshop to insert an assisted slip clutch. Double benefit ‘: it avoids locking the rear wheel when you fall 8 gears at once, and the effort on the left lever is reduced.
A sign of the times, the CBR 650 R has shifted a bit into the era of driving aids. ABS was already there, compulsory. Here it embeds an anti-skating, called HTSC torque control. Considering the engine power, it won’t do much work in the dry. On the other hand, when the weather is greasy or the roads play with gravel (as in every spring), the system could appear much more relevant..
Oh, before I forget … Did you see the dashboard that the entire CB 500/650 family cracked?!? A rather nice little LCD panel, giving false airs of a TFT screen by the play of the blue background, white numbers and certain indications marked in red.
So, shall we take it to the track with the new CBR 650 R? To have fun, no worries. But not to strike a pendulum. While the roadster switches to neo-sport-cafe, this streamlined version of the CB 650 is radicalized a little more, giving a little more sportiness to a fundamentally everyday-sport-tourism idea..
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Max speed:
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The technical aspect
2019 Honda CBR 650 R
- Frame
- Frame: Diamond type steel
- Tank: 15.4 liters
- Seat height: 810 mm
- Length: 2,130 mm
- Width: 750 mm
- Height: 1150 mm
- Wheelbase: 1,450 mm
- Operating weight: 207 kg
- Train before
- Telescopic fork Ø 41 mm, deb: 120 mm
- 2 discs Ø 310 mm, 4 piston radial calipers
- Front wheel:
120/70
– 17
- Transmission
- 6-speed gearbox
- secondary by chain
- Rear axle
- Mono-shock absorber, deb: 120 mm
- 1 disc Ø 240, 1 piston caliper
- Rear wheel:
180/55
– 17
- Motor
- 4 Cylinders
in line
, 4 stroke - Cooling: by water
- Injection Ø 32 mm
- 2 ACT
- 4 valves per cylinder
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649 cc
(67 x 46 mm) -
95
ch
at 12,000 rpm -
6.60 mkg
at 8,500 rpm - Compression: 11.6: 1
- Crit’air:
- Motorcycle accessible to A2 license or bridle at 47.5hp / 35 Kw
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