CBR954RR

This nameplate marked Honda’s sixth-generation evolution of the long-running CBR900RR FireBlade family, brought to North America and Japan under the CBR954RR designation for the 2002 model year. Honda introduced it in early 2002 as a major update to the lightweight superbike formula that had made the series famous since the early 1990s, with the new version representing the most developed expression of the concept before the line moved to a larger-displacement successor. In Honda’s own historical materials, the 2002 machine is identified as the final CBR900RR and the model marketed in North America and Japan as CBR954RR. Honda also continued the nameplate into 2003, including a Japanese market color update and a race-base version based on the North American-spec machine. After that short run, the model was replaced by the CBR1000RR for 2004. Enthusiast interest in the CBR954RR remains strong because it sits at the end of the original FireBlade-era naming scheme and bridges the classic light, compact superbike identity with the modern 1000cc-class supersport direction that followed.