Nickname for CBR600F ?
Axel Fischer
does the '91 Honda CBR600F has a nickname such as Katana for the
Suzuki GSX600F ?
-Axel
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Scott Wilken
>Hello,
Hi Axel!
>
>does the '91 Honda CBR600F has a nickname such as Katana for the
>Suzuki GSX600F ?
>
Well, I cant speak for the euro-model Honda's (since you are in Germany), but
here in the USA, Honda doesnt market the CBR600F anymore... The 91 is a new
model designated CBR600F2. Until 1989, however, the bike wasnt advertised as
CBR (although this was still the Honda model designation).. The CBR's were
known as "Hurricane", and had a really cool hurricane logo painted on the
bike....
Im not really sure why they did away with the Hurricane name (I thought it
was cool myself), but I heard rumor that calling it CBR made insurance
rates on it go down (CBR sounds much less dangerous than Hurricane).
Scott
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Axel Fischer
>In article <KF0...@utower.tower.in-berlin.de> fis...@utower.tower.in-berlin.de writes:
>>Hello,
>>Suzuki GSX600F ?
>Well, I cant speak for the euro-model Honda's (since you are in Germany), but
>here in the USA, Honda doesnt market the CBR600F anymore... The 91 is a new
>model designated CBR600F2. Until 1989, however, the bike wasnt advertised as
>CBR (although this was still the Honda model designation).. The CBR's were
>known as "Hurricane", and had a really cool hurricane logo painted on the
>bike....
The official name here is still CBR600F but the '91 model is completely
redesigned.
The CBRs never had a nickname here in Europe.
Martin Gosejacob
fis...@utower.tower.in-berlin.de (Axel Fischer) writes:>
> The official name here is still CBR600F but the '91 model is completely
> redesigned.
> The CBRs never had a nickname here in Europe.
Sure they do: Yohurt-Becher :-)
martin
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It's funny, but Nickname's are something the Japanese devised for the
American market. The old saying "only in America" applies here. (Sorry
to all you Americans, this article may be a bit hard and non-American
for you).
You think about it- here is a small list I can think of:
NINJA
KATANA
HURRICANE
BANDIT
SLINGSHOT
and there are others I can't think of off-hand.
These names hardly appear anywhere else in the world! Only in America....
I mainly hear of these names in American motorbike magazines, and on the
Net. Here in New Zealand, we have to buy things such as CBR250RR,
GPX750, GSX600, CBR600, GTR1000 etc etc without all the names splashed
all over the plastic bits. And now some [American??] starts to cry
because his CBR600F2 doesn't have a Nickname.
SHAME !! SCANDAL!!
Michael Seales
XJ600 (or FJ600, they're both the same)
Fred Cox
>It's funny, but Nickname's are something the Japanese devised for the
>American market. The old saying "only in America" applies here. (Sorry
>to all you Americans, this article may be a bit hard and non-American
>for you).
>You think about it- here is a small list I can think of:
>NINJA
>KATANA
>HURRICANE
>BANDIT
>SLINGSHOT
>and there are others I can't think of off-hand.
>These names hardly appear anywhere else in the world! Only in America....
>....
>SHAME !! SCANDAL!!
>Michael Seales
>XJ600 (or FJ600, they're both the same)
I don't know about NZ, but when I visited the UK, I noticed that
Nissan seems to have the opposite policy.
In the good ole US of A, we have names like 300ZX, 200SX, B210, etc.
In England, they had Cherry, Happy, etc. I never giggled so much at
car names until the Daihatsu Charade came here. :-)
Fred Cox
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David A. Braun
How about "FIREFLY"?
whit...@husc3.harvard.edu
I've heard people calling the CBR600F2 the "goof-two" 'cause the
'6' looks very much like an 'f' due the choice of the typeface used
for the side-decals.
David Whitehorn
'89 ZX10
Axel Fischer
>In article <0KB...@utower.tower.in-berlin.de>,
>fis...@utower.tower.in-berlin.de (Axel Fischer) writes:>
>> The official name here is still CBR600F but the '91 model is completely
>> redesigned.
>> The CBRs never had a nickname here in Europe.
>Sure they do: Yohurt-Becher :-)
He,he,he ... not bad :-) 1:0 for you!
Axel Fischer
>I mainly hear of these names in American motorbike magazines, and on the
>Net. Here in New Zealand, we have to buy things such as CBR250RR,
>GPX750, GSX600, CBR600, GTR1000 etc etc without all the names splashed
>all over the plastic bits. And now some [American??] starts to cry
>because his CBR600F2 doesn't have a Nickname.
I have posted the orginal question and I'm from [West] Germany. Here in
germany we also doesn't have nicknames.
I don't cry because my bike doesn't have a nickname but I like it more if it
would have one. It's more personal :-) Ok, I can name it "Interceptor",
"Hurricane" or whatever myself but it's not the same.
Bob Rhodes
It's funny, but Nickname's are something the Japanese devised for the
American market. The old saying "only in America" applies here. (Sorry
to all you Americans, this article may be a bit hard and non-American
for you).
I guess that explains why in Japan cars have names like "Sunny" &
"Bluebird", while in this country the same care is called the 240Z.
Thanks for making things easier for the Americans to understand :-).
Bob
Ronald Hansen Ih
>
>I mainly hear of these names in American motorbike magazines, and on the
>Net. Here in New Zealand, we have to buy things such as CBR250RR,
>GPX750, GSX600, CBR600, GTR1000 etc etc without all the names splashed
>all over the plastic bits. And now some [American??] starts to cry
>because his CBR600F2 doesn't have a Nickname.
>
>SHAME !! SCANDAL!!
Well.... Call me lazy but, I find "Ninja" or "Hurricane" easier to
say than ZXR400R, CBR600F2, or ZXCBYZGS1100PDQ whatchamajigger...
BTW, what in the wide world of sports is a SLINGSHOT? Never heard of
that bike before...
Ron Ih
1990 Kawasaki ZX-6
r...@huey.udel.edu
Jerry Szulinski
>The CBRs never had a nickname here in Europe.
>
>-Axel
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I believe the Ninja line in the US is designated as GPZ in Europe (at least
the '86 Ninja 1000R was). I got into an argument with a Swiss
guy when he told me he used to have an '86 GPZ1000. I told him they came in
305, 550, 750 - I used to have one of those, and 1100 cc sizes but not 1000.
We clarified it when he mentioned water cooling.
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Tony Wang
>American market. The old saying "only in America" applies here. (Sorry
>to all you Americans, this article may be a bit hard and non-American
>for you).
>
^^^^^^
Best to remove this from your list. It's called the Bandit in
Japan as well.
>Michael Seales
>XJ600 (or FJ600, they're both the same)
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>
> BTW, what in the wide world of sports is a SLINGSHOT? Never heard of
> that bike before...
>
It's not a bike. The term "slingshot" appears in decal form on the
sides of the tail-section plastic on GSXR1100s (mebbe 750s, too?).
I think it refers to the Mikuni carbs used on those bikes. If so,
it follows a time-honored tradition of attaching catchy, technoid,
or stupid marketing names to various pieces of the product in order
to sell more product.
Dyna-Glide - HD (catchy)
V-Boost - Yamaha (catchy)
YPVS - Yamaha (technoid)
TSCC - Suzuki (technoid)
YICS - Yamaha (stupid)
EXUP - Yamaha (stupid)
IE - Ducati (technoid)
DESMO - Ducati (technoid)
RADD - Parker (catchy)
CVCC - Honda (technoid)
Turbo-Hydramatic - Detroit (wow)
Chuck Rogers
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Ross Allan Roberts
>as a nickname? Either way, it's a great little bike!
> Cheers
> Richard
That's what I refered to it as... I was just to wimpy to mention it (flame
suit is at the cleaners...)
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Dave Edmondson;E208
>I guess that explains why in Japan cars have names like "Sunny" &
>"Bluebird", while in this country the same care is called the 240Z.
>Thanks for making things easier for the Americans to understand :-).
>Bob
The 240Z isn't the same car as a Sunny or Bluebird, these are the itty-bitty
family cars, the sporty efforts are coded not named. Perhaps they dont sell
the little ones in the US or they're so infra dig that you haven't noticed
them. I should think that the whole name/code debate is a great moneyspinner
for marketing types but otherwise has no discernable effect on anything.
(I'm more concerned that bikes are half the price in the US and apparently
even less in Oz.)
On a similar tack...
Are codes less copyrightable than names, if not did Kawasaki end up paying
Suzuki so they could use GT750 and GT550? If they did have to pay why did
they bother?
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+In <23...@gold.gvg.tek.com> bo...@gold.gvg.tek.com (Bob Rhodes) writes:
+
+>I guess that explains why in Japan cars have names like "Sunny" &
+>"Bluebird", while in this country the same care is called the 240Z.
+
+>Thanks for making things easier for the Americans to understand :-).
+
+>Bob
+
+The 240Z isn't the same car as a Sunny or Bluebird, these are the itty-bitty
+family cars, the sporty efforts are coded not named. Perhaps they dont sell
+the little ones in the US or they're so infra dig that you haven't noticed
+them. I should think that the whole name/code debate is a great moneyspinner
+for marketing types but otherwise has no discernable effect on anything.
In Japan the 300ZX is, at at least was in 1987 when I was there, called
the "Fair Lady". This is the actual marque on the car itself.
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Axel Fischer
>that bike before...
Several Suzuki bikes have the slingshot not as a nickname but as a "feature"
as a sticker on it.
Slingshot are Suzuki style carbs. The new Bandit has them too.
Richard Roy
> BTW, what in the wide world of sports is a SLINGSHOT? Never heard of
> that bike before...
SLINGSHOT refers to the carbs on GSX-R's and other Suzukis. I don't know what
it means beyond that...
The CBR600F2 tends to be refered to as 'The F2' for short... Does that qualify
as a nickname? Either way, it's a great little bike!
Cheers
Richard
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David R. Preston
>
> I've heard people calling the CBR600F2 the "goof-two" 'cause the
> '6' looks very much like an 'f' due the choice of the typeface used
> for the side-decals.
Interesting thing about those decals; the four CBR600F2's I saw
today at Livermore (CA) Honda say "CBR600F2 SuperSport". I guess
it's not an official nickname if the magazines aren't using it :-)
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Axel Fischer
>In article <1991May29....@husc3.harvard.edu> whit...@husc3.harvard.edu writes:
>>
>> I've heard people calling the CBR600F2 the "goof-two" 'cause the
>> '6' looks very much like an 'f' due the choice of the typeface used
>> for the side-decals.
>Interesting thing about those decals; the four CBR600F2's I saw
>today at Livermore (CA) Honda say "CBR600F2 SuperSport". I guess
>it's not an official nickname if the magazines aren't using it :-)
Yes, it has the SuperSport logo over here, too. But that does not qualify
as a nickname.
David E. Cider
>wil...@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken) writes:
>>In article <KF0...@utower.tower.in-berlin.de> fis...@utower.tower.in-berlin.de writes:
>>>Hello,
>>>does the '91 Honda CBR600F has a nickname such as Katana for the
>>>Suzuki GSX600F ?
'87-'88 ----> Hurricane was the nickname
'89-'90 ----> Strickly CBR, dropped the Hurricane moniker
'91-? ----> Super Sport is the only one that I know of
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David R. Preston
>d...@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston) writes:
>
>>it's not an official nickname if the magazines aren't using it :-)
>
>Yes, it has the SuperSport logo over here, too. But that does not qualify
>as a nickname.
How so? Supersport is one of the model names that Honda has been
re-cycling for years, including the 1979 CB750F Supersport (a friend
has one). Maybe they figured since they were reusing Nighthawk, they
might as well have another Supersport (according to the August '90
"Rider", the Nighthawk was almost called the "Sport").
Raoul Said
'Hyper Sports' or 'Sling Shot', or the older FZRs 'Pure Sports' since they
had similar stickers on their plastic pieces. Also, you would probably get
a funny look if you walked into the Honda dealer and asked for a part for a
1991 SuperSport 600! (Too bad they dropped the Hurricane logo.)
Blaine Gardner
[Super Sport vs. CBR vs. Hurricane]
Heck, even the old late 70's single cam CB750F was labeled "Super Sport"
in spite of the fact that the GS750 would eat it alive.
Personally I like the "Goof 2" reading of "6oo f2". :-)
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f7...@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
>>>it's not an official nickname if the magazines aren't using it :-)
>>
>>Yes, it has the SuperSport logo over here, too. But that does not qualify
>>as a nickname.
>
> How so? Supersport is one of the model names that Honda has been
> re-cycling for years, including the 1979 CB750F Supersport (a friend
Even earlier - 1975 cb400f supersport's had it on the tank
(I think 550f's as well)
karl smolenski
Al Bowers
>In article <GSG...@utower.tower.in-berlin.de> fis...@utower.tower.in-berlin.de writes:
>>d...@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston) writes:
>>>"CBR600F2 SuperSport".
>>Yes, it has the SuperSport logo over here, too. But that does not qualify
>>as a nickname.
>How so? Supersport is one of the model names that Honda has been
>re-cycling for years, including the 1979 CB750F Supersport (a friend
>has one).
Sounds like Ducati could make a killing by hiring a sharp lawyer for
trademark infringment.
1972 Ducati 750 _Sport_
1974 Ducati 750 _SuperSport_
And while I was still calling the CBR600F2 a `Hurricane' (a rose by
any other name...), I like the `GOOF2' moniker better. The '91 Honda
GOOF2. Yeah, that sounds good.
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David R. Preston
Is so :-)
In article <1991Jun03.0...@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> sai...@prism.cs.orst.edu (Raoul Said) writes:
>Actually nick naming the F2 'Super Sport' would be like nick naming GSXRs
>'Hyper Sports' or 'Sling Shot', or the older FZRs 'Pure Sports'
Except that Honda has used 'Supersport' as a model name before.
>since they had similar stickers on their plastic pieces.
The sticker on the side of the gas tank reads 'Honda', the sticker on
the main plastic piece reads 'CBR600F2
Supersport'
Exactly the same placement as the 'CB450T
Hawk'
> Also, you would probably get
>a funny look if you walked into the Honda dealer and asked for a part for a
>1991 SuperSport 600!
I never claimed anyone was using the name. Someone asked if the bike
has a model name; the answer is yes, it's the "Supersport."
>(Too bad they dropped the Hurricane logo.)
Perhaps they're trying to emphasize that this is a new bike and
that people should buy it for the full sticker price, instead of
buying last year's model.
Karen Black
>
>It's funny, but Nickname's are something the Japanese devised for the
>American market. The old saying "only in America" applies here. (Sorry
>to all you Americans, this article may be a bit hard and non-American
>for you).
>
>You think about it- here is a small list I can think of:
>
>NINJA
>KATANA
>HURRICANE
>BANDIT
>SLINGSHOT
>and there are others I can't think of off-hand.
Like EXCITER!
Karen Black
SR250 Exciter
GB500 "Japlish"
Martin Gosejacob
>Suzuki GSX600F ?
Sure: "Yoghurtbecher" (for Non-Germans: yoghurt cup) :-)
martin
gos...@osf.org
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