Last year in November, Honda unveiled its prototype RC213V-S, a street legal machine that’s “closer to a MotoGP bike than any road-going model ever offered to the public”. And their right. This bike blows away Yamaha’s R1M, which before the RC213V-S was the closest production bike to a proper MotoGP bike, in terms of handling and cornering, as well as suspension and breaking.
Source: Wikipedia
The RC213V-S is modeled after the RC213V, Honda Racing Corporation’s current MotoGP bike, with the frame, rear sets, exhaust, swing arm, wheels, suspension and body work being pretty much identical using top of the line items and materials. All of the geometry of the frame is identical to the MotoGP bike, and is setup to be like Marc Marquez’s RC213V. The main differences, besides the road legal items (Number plate, indicators, lights, kickstand) include all the consumable items, such as brakes, which are steel disks, as opposed to ceramic, and engine components. Honda has switched out the pneumatic valves for more conventional coil springs and their seamless shift transmission gearbox for a more traditional one. This along with piston design was done for sensibility reasons, and for longer service interval materials and design, as it wouldn’t make sense to rebuild the bikes components after every few rides.
Source: RC213V-S
The price of this bike, when released on July 12nd is sold for $184,000 euros, with the sports package an extra $12,000, which, apart from the carbon pattern fairings, will increase the ~159 bhp bike @ 11,000 rpm to ~215 bhp @ 14,000 rpm. This bike will likely only be sold for this year, and estimated 250 units will be produced by a team of 2-3 specialists at Kumamoto Factory in Japan.
Source: Cycle World
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