My Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade is boring!!! When an owner of a Fireblade rang me and made this statement I thought to myself "this guys a nutter!" How could anyone say that the CBR1000RR is a boring bike? Great power, great handling, nice to ride, what more could you want from a bike. "It's too black". Obviously he was talking about the color scheme when he said it was boring and nothing to do with the way the bike performed. After a bit of a chat with the owner we'd worked out that a change in color of the wheels could be just enough to brake up the blackness of the paint scheme. So I whipped out the wheels and off they went to the painters. The owner wanted a nice shade of gold similar to the color on some models of Ducati. A week later the wheels were back and bolted back in. And the results, well have a look and see what you think.