If it ain’t broke, don’t fix. It’s a saying you often hear when someone is trying to make something better and it all goes horribly wrong. In the highly competitive world of open-class sportbikes, this could mean the introduction of costly redesigns and useless new parts that make things more complicated and ultimately have an outcome of very little improvement. It appears the men at
Honda had this in mind when they decided to leave good enough alone with its 2012 CBR1000RR.