Honda’s flagship sportbike, the CBR250RR, received significant updates earlier. Already powerful and efficient, users were still clamouring for more.
Honda listened and started to upgrade the CBR250RR. Their goal? Build an affordable supersport—that could rival the more powerful bikes in its class.
However, for the 2022 CBR250RR model.We don’t see many changes apart from the newly added shade called “Graphite Black”.
Honda revealed something anticipated since the first glimpses of the new sport bike’s design generation in images.
The new Graphite Black (BB) version is coming to Malaysia soo. While we’d also expect it to make its way to Indonesia and Thailand shortly after.
Quarter litre class
Honda’s first quarter-litre CBR, the CBR250RR, was introduced in 2016. In a decade that saw the emergence of four-cylinder sportbikes like Kawasaki’s Ninja ZX-25R. The 250cc engine of the CBR was a novel idea.
However, we see the new CBR250RR with a parallel twin despite all speculation.
A quarter litre-class bike could compete with the larger capacity bikes when it came to performance.
But, they were wrong not just once but twice as the Honda CBR250RR came out of the woodwork and was launched in Japan this year.
It is a beast sporting a 249 cc, four-stroke, liquid-cooled engine that fires up to deliver a claimed 40bhp at 13,000rpm and 42Nm of torque at 11,000rpm rpm.
It is quite a sound output for such a small displacement motor. It’s paired to a six-speed transmission that can be shifted up or down via the auto-blipping downshift valve (ATV).
An inverted type suspension on the front, an asymmetrical aluminium swingarm and Prolink suspension with excellent road followability is used on the rear, and ABS enhances the sense of security when braking.
As a supersport model with a cutting-edge design that realizes manoeuvrability that can bring outstanding power performance, it comes well received by many customers, mainly young people.
