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Driving report Honda (2009)

Now with ABS: CBR 600 RR

Honda’s new sports ABS is said to decelerate perfectly, with Fireblade and CBR 600 RR. Does it work? Latest news from the circuit.

Guy Mock, press man at Honda Europe, looks supportive of the state. “Yes, earlier, the drivers quickly found the limit of the brakes. Today it works the other way around. The brakes quickly find the driver’s limit. It was time to help them! ”With so much compassion, one tends to fall into a collective frenzy of gratitude. Nevertheless, you have to say: There is something to the number.

Modern braking systems bite mercilessly, withstand lap-long brutal braking maneuvers without giving in, are great to dose. What you can’t take is the fear of the locking front wheel. But that should end now. The revised C.The BR 600 RR and its big sister Fireblade will be the first Japanese super athletes to brake with ABS on request (surcharge 1000 euros). And always and everywhere, because the anti-lock device cannot be switched off.

Sand in front of the front wheel, the sheer horror. Always stay on it, they said – and it works.

On-site meeting. Qatar, Middle East, sand, no matter where the eye looks. Even right in front of the front wheel. Anyway, stay brave. You said it was okay. And indeed: like a single-track bulldozer, the CBR plows through the artificially heaped sand bed, noticeably delayed. On a surface where, without ABS, the front wheel only folds in at the thought of gripping brake calipers. This impresses even hardened testers. Seen in this light, it is good that Honda insisted on presenting the everyday qualities of sports ABS off the Grand Prix track. Sudden braking, wetness, so-called friction coefficient jumps on wet zebra crossings or just dirt on the street ?? Of course, you can’t check everything in the desert, but you like to believe that the new Honda Sport ABS is fully up to date and can handle all situations during braking exercises. Without the driver even noticing the hectic activities of the two pressure modulators.

Honda’s new sport ABS

The brain: impressive black box on the left behind the panel

Occasional slight rear wheel stamping when braking and downshifting at the same time or if the clutch was not pulled ?? that’s it. Incidentally, the only astonishing thing is the sovereignty with which both the CBR 600 RR and the Fireblade stay on course. Even on grippy asphalt, where sports motorcycles with their short wheelbase and front-heavy weight distribution usually tend to somersault forwards or to break away.

Of course, this is especially true where delays in the maximum range are the order of the day and the drivers consciously approach the limits of tires and chassis ?? or in most cases your own. The Qatar Grand Prix course, that means over five kilometers of fascinating winding curves in the middle of no man’s land ?? and especially a braking zone at the end of the long home straight, where any help is very welcome.

Printed matter: pump unit and hydraulics under the rear frame

To avoid misunderstandings: For everyone who brakes at the limit anyway, the braking points will not shift backwards because the limit is the limit. For everyone else, on the other hand, the new Honda ABS means that they can move safely and stress-free towards maximum deceleration. Simply because in the back of your mind there is always the reassuring awareness that at least you cannot overbrake straight ahead or in the first part of the curve.

This awareness is actually necessary because, as on the sandstrip, almost nothing of the ABS can initially be felt. In the second out of the target curve, stepping through the gears with momentum, then throwing the anchor with power: a slight, very brief sagging of the rear, because the composite braking system Combined Sports ABS triggers a very fine initial braking on the rear wheel when the handbrake lever is pulled to stabilize the brake and then continues slows down, which clearly stabilizes the load. No peculiarities, no significant impairment of the braking feeling, no noticeable control activity, but at best the feeling of slight fading when the ABS is briefly in the control range on bumps. Obviously, the sudden release of the brakes due to excessively coarse control intervals, which sports drivers feared most with the anti-lock braking systems of the past, is yesterday’s news with the Honda Sport ABS.

Honda Sport ABS – the technology

Well-known outlook: Only the ABS indicator light is new in the cockpit

Provided that the series machines brake just like the test machines equipped with the ABS control unit from the race kit. The conversion was necessary because Bridgestone BT 003 Racing had been drawn up for the racetrack, while the series is rolling on BT 015 / BT 016. The different rolling circumference requires a modified mapping of the ABS control unit, otherwise, according to Honda, the functionality is absolutely identical to the standard version.

The new Honda ABS can only be flexibly adapted to the circumstances due to the special design with two completely independent control loops and a black box as the central control unit. For a fast driver, the kit control unit can be conditioned according to his preferences. The reigning IDM master Martin Bauer plans to compete in the championship with ABS in 2009. That would be more than a PR gag.

Another indication of the ABS on the CBR 600: the ring gear on the brake disc

Apart from the ABS, the Fireblade, the price of which rises by 200 euros to 13,990 euros without ABS, has changed technically almost nothing, with its little sister (10890 instead of 10790 euros) very little. With the ABS variants, the forks are adapted to ABS operation with springs that are five percent harder. In addition to the newly styled fairing, small interventions in the engine and a flow-dependent throttle valve in the rear silencer should smooth the torque curve ?? without a direct comparison, no difference can be made out. This also applies to the new monoblock brake calipers, which are supposed to make the already excellent brake a touch better. When you take a firm grip on the brake lever, which you often use with the new sports ABS, you don’t notice any of this.

If you want to convince yourself: On February 14th, the two new ABS super sports cars will be ready for a test drive at the Honda dealer.

Technical data Honda CBR 600 RR

engine
Water-cooled four-cylinder four-stroke in-line engine, two overhead, chain-driven camshafts, four valves per cylinder, bucket tappets, wet sump lubrication, injection, Ø 40 mm, regulated catalytic converter, 343 W alternator, 12 V / 9 Ah battery, mechanically operated multi-disc oil bath clutch, six-speed gearbox , O-ring chain, secondary ratio 41:16.
Bore x stroke 67.0 x 42.5 mm
Displacement 599 cm³
Compression ratio 12.2: 1
Rated output 88.1 kW (120 hp) at 13500 rpm
Max. Torque 66 Nm at 11250 rpm

landing gear
Bridge frame made of aluminum, upside-down fork, Ø 41 mm, adjustable spring base, rebound and compression damping, steering damper, two-arm swing arm made of aluminum, central spring strut with lever system, adjustable spring base, rebound and compression damping, double disc brake at the front, Ø 310 mm, four-piston fixed calipers , Rear disc brake, Ø 220 mm, single-piston floating caliper, partially integral brake system with ABS.
Cast aluminum wheels 3.50 x 17; 5.50 x 17
Tires 120/70 ZR 17; 180/55 ZR 17

mass and weight
Wheelbase 1375 mm, steering head angle 66.45 degrees, caster 98 mm, spring travel f / r 120/135 mm, seat height 820 mm, weight with a full tank 194 kg, tank capacity / reserve 18.0 / 3.5 liters.
Two year guarantee
Colors with ABS white / red / blue, black / red
Colors without ABS white / blue, black / green
Base price 10890 euros
Price with ABS 11 890 euros
Additional costs around 170 euros

This is how the Honda ABS works

This schematic representation of the Combined Sports ABS clearly shows the decisive difference to conventional solutions. Only the control unit is the link between the separate control loops for the front and rear wheels and regulates the brake pressure. With ?? P ?? the pressure sensors are designated. If the pressure on the handbrake lever is low, for example, the system does not initially intervene, but the pressure build-up takes place quite normally via the brake cylinder. Only when the pressure rises does the valves open and the system takes over. The control unit automatically regulates the braking force at the front and rear and links both circuits. When the handbrake lever is pulled, the rear brakes automatically. Conversely, braking force is only distributed to the front when the rear wheel locks. The brake pressure is modulated by valve and pump units on the rear and front wheel, which are positioned as centrally as possible around the engine and add around ten kilograms of additional weight.

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