Ride Red: 1992 Honda CBR600F2

1992 Honda CBR600 F2
Miles: 8,500
$4,500
Pensylvania

SELLER
Super rare, triple red (wheels/seats/fairings) CBR. Very low miles. Purchased 1 year ago but barely ridden. Used as a display bike most of the time and always stored indoors by both previous owners. Runs and rides great, comes with original exhaust. Currently has Vance Hines pipe. Ridden less than 100 miles in the last year. $4500 obo. Shipping is available.

RSBFS
Triple red alert! Looking through our archives, we have never posted a triple red CBR. We have seen red, white and blue – black, red and silver – black, purplishblue and pinkishred….

Over at the CBR Forum, where there might be a bit of bias, I found The CBR Comes of Age by Juliet.  This is a review of the 1991 to 1994 CBR600F2. (CBR600FM, FN, FP, FR)  “This is when Honda’s CBR600 really came of age. The CBR600F2 was launched to gain back the middleweight throne.

The old ZZR600 was faster, the FZR600 was lighter and faster round the bends and winning more races, the Suzuki at the time never really mattered, that GSX600 teapot thingy ..lol ..it might have been argued more comfort but little else over the CBR….

I found the engines to be really smooth on both these bikes and they had a good spread of power and a strong power band above 7,000 – 8,000 rpm. It has to be said that singing these bikes through the gears between 8,000 and about 11,000 rpm made for very rapid and fun progress, especially back in their day.

If I am going to be hyper critical there is a flat spot, that is almost over stating it though, it’s more an easing up of urge and I managed to pinpoint it between about 4500 and 5500 revs. If you opened the throttle in this range in the higher gears it sometimes felt a bit breathless and not quite the urge you wanted.

That said it was excellent above 5500-6000rpm and had good useable power in traffic from 3000 to 4,500 rpm. This was not a problem once you knew the flat spot was there and where it was. Both my bikes were totally standard and exactly the same in that regard.

The handling always felt taut and tight in the twisties and the bike itself was very comfortable for long or short journeys. The mirrors are excellent if time is taken to adjust them right.

Gear selection was always a bit clunky especially going into first could be quite a clonk but that was just a Honda CBR600 thing and more of an annoyance than anything to worry about….

In my opinion the CBR600F2 is still a great bike today. It was simply quite brilliant in 1991 at it’s launch and even today all these years later, if you can find a good one that has been well serviced and looked after, it’s still a great bike to ride and have fun on.

Whilst it is certainly no 600RR, and lacks that bike’s aggressive looks and potent performance,
it is still a very pleasant machine to ride that is well rounded with an ample turn of speed if pushed.

Besides, if you are not traveling everywhere at warp speed you get to admire the views more.
A well looked after CBR600F2 for the right price could be just the ticket to get into some fun biking cheaply without being saddled with finance in these somewhat hard times.”

Thanks for the info Juliet. It’s always nice to hear from a real rider.

Good luck to the buyer and seller!