2009 Honda CBR1000RR Review and specification

Brimming with MotoGP-bred DNA, the CBR®1000RR was simply the best, most innovative open-class sportbike we’d ever built. Calling the CBR1000RR a superbike doesn’t do it justice.

Now, for those sport-riders seeking even greater stopping power and control, allow us to introduce the CBR1000RR with electronically controlled Combined ABS (C-ABS), the most advanced (and first-ever) anti-lock braking system to find its way onto an open-class sportbike.

Indeed it does, but I was flashing back a decade to the first press launch of my motojournalist career. The changes made to the 1998 CBR900RR made it the best big CBR ever, and I was awed by how fast yet controllable that new scalpel was.

Now, a little more than 10 years later, I’m again in the seat of the best literbike Honda has yet crafted. Compared to the RR I rode in ’98, it weighs less and has nearly 50 additional horses.
Engine Type 999cc liquid-cooled inline four-cylinder
Bore And Stroke 76mm x 55.1mm
Induction Dual Stage Fuel Injection (DSFI)
Ignition Computer-controlled digital transistorized with three-dimensional mapping
Compression Ratio 12.3:1
Valve Train DOHC; four valves per cylinder
MSRP $12,999