Honda CB1000R Black Edition 2025 — Specifications

With the arrival of the 1000 Hornet, the CB 1000 R + is pushed even further towards the exit. It continues to stand out with a style, a positioning, and a more premium finish. A few machines in stock allow the existence of this engine with a particular charisma to continue. Like Spiderman and Venom, Anakin and Dark Vador, Mario and Wario, oil and the drain, some characters eventually cross paths with their dark double. For the CB 1000 RII, the clone of nights and torments will be the Black Edition.

Black has wanted to be chic and tenebrous for a few times. Matte, shiny, glittered, luminous or discreet, it has become more than a color on some productions. On the Honda roadster, for example, it has seized every piece where light can no longer escape.

The time is over when one was content to paint the tank, the mudguard, and the rear fairing. The exercise turned into a totalitarian grip. Honda eliminated almost all metallic reflections, darkened every chrome part, eliminated all traces of color. With three exceptions: the TFT dashboard, the road hardware, and the Honda emblem embedded on the edges of the tank. One might wonder if the motorcycle hasn't showered with charcoal. Every piece that Honda wanted to highlight on the CB 1000 R has switched: the brushed aluminum plates, the seat support, the handlebar, the risers, the entire exhaust line, the footrest anchor plates, the fork tubes, the levers, the headlight bezel… full black, what.

Except for a few traces of angle grinder on some engine ribs. However, for him, it is not ash but the fire of 145 horsepower that stirs. The manufacturer has just added the services of a quickshifter. Here is the other particularity of the Black Edition: the treats. Compared to the standard CB 1000 R, the Black receives as a bonus the gear change assistant that we have just seen, a matching seat cover, and a small windscreen. Which will only protect the speedometer. Basically, it is half the recipe that Honda had applied to make the CB 1000 R+.

To Black or not to black, that is not the question for the roadster. In one case or the other, it has the same technology with its mono-backbone steel frame, its CBR 1000 RR engine (detuned), its Showa SFF-BP fork, and its superb single-sided swingarm. The electronics consist of 4 Riding Modes, 3 power levels, traction control, engine braking management, automatic turn-off of turn signals, 4 display types for the screen, a voice interface to pilot your smartphone, a USB socket under the seat, and LED lighting. With it, you can present yourself before the bat-cave. Alfred will think it's the boss who is back.

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