…included the requisite commuter mileage, but we found time to burn rubber on the best two-wheeled stretches of road in Southern California.Now, a Honda 919 is arguably in the same market segment as these, but it's a junior-high punk compared to the lettermen in this group, having neither the grunt nor…

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…paid for itself, we'd like to see Honda perform some minor re-engineering on the VTR. If we get our wish, the Super Hawk will be turned into a Japanese Tuono, with a stronger fuel-injected motor, a bigger fuel tank and a tubular handlebar. Honda's milquetoast 919 can't cut it in a streetfight, but a…

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…ZRX and the rest of the naked/retro market. The FZ1 belongs in a class of bikes that I would call 'roadsters', machines such as Honda's capable new 919 or Triumph's wonderful Speed Triple, they have small fairings and aren't sport bikes, but they're too cutting edge to be called retro. Roadsters have…

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…moniker for the U.S. market, as the company did when it imported the 900 Hornet and called it the 919.)The 599 can be a riot on the right roads and offers heaps of versatility.The addition of the 599 gives Honda a three-bike salvo in the 600cc sportbike class. The $8599 CBR600RR introduced in 2003 heads the…

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…We've extolled the virtues of several other naked bikes of the past, such as?Aprilia's Falco Streetfighter and Tuono, Suzuki's Bandit 1200 and Honda's 919, which are excellent bikes in their own right. But few of them have a huge lunge factor that some riders thirst for. The powerful Yamaha FZ1 and Kawi…

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…Honda) +0.729 4. Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) +0.730 5. Colin Edwards (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) +0.755 6. Alex de Angelis (San Carlo Gresini Honda) +0.919 7. Nicky Hayden (Ducati Marlboro) +0.984 8. Randy de Puniet (LCR Honda) +1.039 9. Mika Kallio (Pramac Racing) +1.043 10. Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda)…