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Honda CBR 1100 XX
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With the CBR 1100 XX, Honda unmistakably pays homage to the performance principle – and puts the established competition of the strong and fast under considerable pressure.

Jurgen Schmitz, Angela Schmitz

07/11/1996

The sparrows on the roofs have been whistling for a long time about a super sporty CBR, an upgrade of the Fire Blade, a machine that should outshine everything that has come before in terms of performance and top speed. Now it turns out: whistled properly – and yet again not. Right, because the new CBR 1100 XX has what it takes to win the Blue Ribbon of the fastest mass-produced motorcycle, wrong, because the “XX” has not become a super athlete, but a “super athlete” (original tone Honda), which is a flowery paraphrase Honda attaches great importance to the fact that the CBR 1100 XX performance targets were not pursued for the sake of performance, rather the pursuit of the highest possible ride quality had top priority. Anyway – then the engine designers just incidentally slipped out 164 hp and 125 Nm. And that with very conventional means: above the belt line four cylinders arranged in a row, crowned by compact, four-valve combustion chambers, all of which are liquid-cooled. The ventilation takes over – no, no injection system, but a disdainful carburetor quartet. Which means that the question of modern exhaust gas cleaning has already been settled. In the basement, a five-way slide-bearing crankshaft rotates that communicates with the clutch and six-speed gearbox via spur gears. The left crankshaft stub carries the alternator rotor, opposite is the pinion for the chain drive of the camshafts. Everything was totally normal, if it weren’t for the two counter-rotating balance shafts behind the cylinder bank, above the gearbox, rotating at twice the crankshaft speed, which put an end to the second-order inertia forces typical of four cylinders. High-frequency vibrations are supposed to be alien to the new CBR quad, which is why it can play a major role when it is firmly screwed to the frame. The engine block is held in shape by an aluminum bridge construction, which does not break new technical ground any more than the two-arm rear swing arm and the telescopic fork with 43 millimeter thick stanchions and cartridge damping Three-piston calipers on all three discs is also responsible for the deceleration tactics on the CBR 1100 XX. The fact that the stoppers on board the new one have to deal with a lot is not only due to the powerful engine. Rather, it is the fairing that promises to make the best of the given performance with sensationally good aerodynamic qualities. Behind the scenes there is talk of an achievable top speed of around 290 km / h – an indication that the cladding bow, which was born in the wind tunnel, actually plows through the atmosphere with as little resistance as its slim shape suggests. German Honda customers, of course, get experiences of the very fast kind officially withheld, because the CBR 1100 XX goes into the race in this country with the brakes on: Under the license plate D it has to be content with 98 hp – and that’s really not the world for a motorcycle that is touted as “The Worlds Greatest Super Sport”.

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