Good old video

[Oilyspanner]

Just watched this, thought a few others might enjoy it too - had been looking around for this video for a while and found a good chap has posted it on youtube.

I don't know where they got the weight figures from - the wet weights should be cbr - 457 lbs    1100N - 547lbs    -   still a massive difference and to be fair the cbr did feel very light back then.  I think Keith Huewen quoted the Gurls blouse at pretty much  it's claimed dry weight - 185kg  or 407lbs.

here's the link

 

[nlovien]

nice one  story doesn't hit hard enough on just how  mad the CBR was when it 1st came out - my 1st go on one - what the fook is this !!, I can walk into a show room and buy this thing - it was brilliantly mad and sooo easy and confidence inspiring - made a note to self - don't buy one = you will end up in a ditch not because it doesn't work, more because it works so blooming well - wasn't till I got on a mid 90's GSXR750 with trick suspension did I achieve the same feeling of road riding invisibility that only something that,s just right can provide-  maybe that,s the twist here i.e. swap the 1100N in the test for a GSXR750

[gsx]

That killed half hour , don't know why they didn't have a gsxr engine'd et for a proper comparison though

[Oilyspanner]

I reckon that would be the X rated video GSX ! - with Jim Whitham saying ' fooking hell' a lot...!

 

 

[Solcambs]

.... and how fookin' young do Whitham and Huewen look?

[toot]

Class that.

 

[KATANAMANGLER]

Maybe it's my extreme bias but a bit like Homer Simpson's dog, this how it sounded to me:

Blah blah blah Suzuki more powerful blah blah blah  Suzuki had so much grunt blah blah blah Suzuki gear box was perfect blah blah blah Suzuki had more power in every gear

[Captain Chaos]

why, there's any other bike in the video?

[Dezza]

What is immediately obvious is the lack of cars, lorries and potholes in 1992 compared with nowadays - even a clapped-out CZ125 would be fun to ride along some of them roads