Japanese bike major Honda Motor Company Limited has reportedly filed patents for modifying their VFR Sports Tourer’s Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) system for their litre class CBR 1000RR Fireblade sportsbike. The company wants to revise the design of their DCT system in order for them to be able to make the system more affordable and thereby offer it on more products.
The company will be retaining the same basic layout of the VFR’s DCT system for their new DCT, along with the concentric input shafts of the VFR’s twin-clutch tranny. But, the company plans to cut down costs of the system by simplifying the electronics and sensors which govern the operation of the DCT, without losing out on the efficiency or shift times when compared with the DCT of the VFR.
The DCT option, if chosen on the VFR, adds nearly 10% of the bike’s price to the end price of the bike, which on a £11,596 bike is quite a lot. Honda aims to make the entire system more affordable by the elimination of one of the potentiometers, measuring shift drum position and thereby telling the system’s computer which gear the bike is in.
Honda is expected to launch the DCT equipped CBR 1000RR sometime in 2012, and if they can position and price the bike competitively in the market, I am sure they will find many takers for the bike.
The DCT equipped Fireblade could hit Indian shores once launched internationally, since Honda Motorcycle and Scooters India (HMSI) is already contemplating launching the DCT equipped VFR sports tourer for the Indian market sometime this year.
Source – Visor Down
Posted by Sachet Parkash on June 9, 2010. Read More on Honda · 2 Comments
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