Thursday, 11 June 2015

Honda will sell you its RC213V race bike for just $184,000 starting tomorrow

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For the 2016 model year, Honda is producing a very small number of RC213V race bikes — Honda’s MotoGP machines — that the public will be able to buy. Dubbed the RC213V-S, it’s got basically every race-ready feature and high-tech electronic aid under the sun, up to and including “position-detection technology developed through Honda’s ASIMO project.”


It’s beautiful, and it’s sure to be an amazing work of engineering when it’s on the street. There’s just one thing: it’s $ 184,000. That’s 13 CBR1000RRs, Honda’s garden-variety superbike.


For motorcycle aficionados who can afford it, that’s a totally reasonable amount of money to pay for technology that normally competes at the very highest levels of racing. But it’s hard to overlook the…


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Honda will sell you its RC213V race bike for just $184,000 starting tomorrow http://www.danieluk.net/news/honda-will-sell-you-its-rc213v-race-bike-for-just-184000-starting-tomorrow/ #Technology

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