CFMOTO 675 SR-R: INTRODUCTION, POSITIONING AND RIVIORS OF CFMOTO 675 SR-R
After his recent proclamation as Moto3 world champion (pilot, builders and equipment) in 2024, Cfmoto bursts into the sports market with a supersport, oriented to those who want to start on sports or circuit motorcycles.
The idea cannot be better oriented, because instead of resorting to the latest available technology, trust your benefits to the best available cycle part and a motorization that, complying with the requirements of Euro5 + and the limits for card A2, have an accessible price that facilitates the purchase decision.
Cfmoto 675 SR-R (88 hp, € 7,790) is a motorcycle aimed at learning the secrets of sports driving. For this, brakes and quality suspensions are important, which allow the limits in sports driving, but above all, on the track.
But there is also the circumstance of the veteran fan, already back of everything, that what he wants is simplicity of use: reach the circuit and roll, without worrying with complex settings and configurations, just shoot and enjoy.
For these fans and a risk that the power on paper may seem scarce (later I will explain it), the 675 SR-R cfmoto will be a real revelation.
The Supersport segment is attending its resurrection after years Aciagos, in which a few residual models kept the flame on. In the past, it was copied by 600 cc tetraconic sophisticated, at least one for each Japanese brand, with some Italian bicylindrical exception. Today the panorama is very different.
Of the 4 cylinders, among the earthly, there is only the Honda CBR650R (€ 10,100), as the Honda CBR600RR (121 hp, € 12,700), Yamaha Yzf-R6 (118 hp, € 14.099) and the Kawasaki ZX-6R high performance “
The rest of the supersport are divided into bicilindric and tricilindrical. Among the first, are the RS 660 (100 hp, € 11,999), Kawasaki Ninja 650 (68 hp, € 8,375), Suzuki GSX-8R (84 hp, (€ 8,999) or the Yamaha R7 (73.4 hp, € 9.799). Our protagonist of today is among the tricylindricas, among which, among which, among which the protagonist of today is among the three-cylinder, among which the protagonist of today is among the protagonist of today is among which the protagonist of today is among the protagonist of today is among which the protagonist of today is among which it is among the protagonist of today is among which the The Triumph Daytona 660 (95 hp, € 9.995) and the one that is warned as its most direct rival for philosophy and conception: the 703RR Zontes (90 hp, € 7,688).
CFMOTO 675 SR-R TEST: TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CFMOTO 675 SR-R
Initially, for a price of € 7,790 you cannot expect exotic materials in the components of the 675SR-R, but I assure you that the quality of assembly and their appearance is well above the minimum enforceable. The chassis is made of steel, but its termination gives very good feelings.
That it is made of steel does not mean that it is a heavy motorcycle (it weighs 189 kg in the gear order), because the engine is also part of it. The curved double arm swinging is aluminum and leaves the wheelbase in just 1,400 mm, which contributes to the agility that I could detect on the portimao track.
The heart of the matter is a 675 cm3 refrigerated by water dohc, an engine that also shares (also the dimensions) with its sister, the Naked Cfmoto 675 NK. The power figure is not spectacular (88 hp to 11,000), but the maximum torque, 68 Nm at 8,250 rpm, which guarantees thrust and emotions on the track is good.
Electronics is present, but briefly. It complies with the minimum: ABS and traction control (disconnectable). It does not have driving modes, but I find an advantage, given the orientation of the motorcycle, which is nothing but learning and enjoyment. In the 675 SR-R you will learn to move on the motorcycle, to trace well and rush the braking with a set at the task.
Although the engine figures do not overwhelm, underway it is exciting for sound, more noticeable above the motorcycle than for those who see it pass. I ignore how he does it, but I remember seeing the target line to the journalists who rolled in the first group and think about the discreet escape.
When climbing the motorcycle, the sensation is the opposite: between admission, change and escape, getting out of gears is addictive. Also because of the quickshifter change, well adjusted. The bad part is that it only works on a rise, quite disconcerting to be 2025. The Quickshifter only in climb were already a memory of the first steps of the change assistants, already surpassed.
After climbing marches without raging, it is not uncommon to confirm and try to do the same reducing, as you approximate to a curve. In the end you get used to your head and reprograde, but I would gladly pay a couple of hundreds of euros more just because the quickshifter would also work by reducing.
If the touch and engine sensations are better than what the figures, suspensions and brakes say they score with very good note. The front train is made up of a 41 mm Kyb inverted fork, adjustable in the three tracks and a double 300 mm disc brake, bitten by Radial Tirms J. Juan of 4 pistons. The performance is up to its appearance, really solid.
The rear train also stalls at high height, with an adjustable mono -ajor in preload and rebound and a 240 mm brake with simple piston. The wheel measures are 120/70-17 and 180/55-17, a standard in sports wheels and allows you to mount your favorite tires.
The CST series tires assumed another great surprise, in the best sense of the term. Grip, stability and agility are excellent dry, in the absence of knowing how long they will last giving those sensations, in any case, very welcome.
All lighting is full LED and digital instrumentation. The 5 -inch TFT screen informs of everything desirable, including a chronomethast, activable from the left pineapple, which I could even go underway.
Another thing is when you get to boxes: you have to be careful to access your laps without erase the data (it happened to me). It also offers connectivity, using Ride App.
The seat is 810 mm, an issue that doesn’t matter much on track, but if you circulate by road. With my 178 cm, it does not imply a problem, but it is not easy to maneuver in a rise to the motorcycle, taking into account that the semimaners are in a sports position. It is not a comfortable motorcycle to make long runs; The position to his controls is tolerable off -track, but magnificent inside her.
The deposit is 15 liters; I recognize that I didn’t look at the average track consumption, the only place where we could roll with it. When I roll in circuit, I have no habit of looking at consumption. If perhaps, the times per return.
Test Cfmoto 675 SR-R: How is Cfmoto 675 SR-R
If you like motorcycle races, you will have seen more than one in Portimao, even for TV. Until the presentation of Cfmoto 675 SR-R, I was in that group. Therefore, I was crazy to reach the presentation of the sports of Cfmoto, located in the Portuguese layout.
I have asked anyone known that he has shot there and the music is always the same: “Portimao is exciting, very physical, without breaks, full of blind, up and down. Special mention at two points: left turn -fire- uphill after a blind ground and right -wing slide that gives entrance to the finish line of the finish line. ”
As is. For the first batch of 15 minutes (in a group of three journalists), a Portuguese pilot of Cfmoto and thus be able to learn the route; He squeezed the rhythm as we saw that we followed him. In the second round, of the same duration, it would give us wheel during the first round, and then disappear. The third batch, 30 minutes, would be free.
The meteorological forecast was very bad, in theory it was rained in abundance, but miraculously, the black clouds that flew us did not download. I played it and did not take the onboard camera the first batch, so I could concentrate on learning the layout.
Against any forecast, I learned the track in the first round, so by the end of it, we already shot at a light pace. After a couple of turns, I began to look at the motorcycle, not on the track.
The first, the sound. It’s exciting! The second, the change. Go from marches like the twinkling, but you have to download them clutching. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts –To Capón– Losing the concentration, I learned the order of the equation. The next step is the stability-founded binomial, really good.
I immediately realize the spirit of this motorcycle: its mission is to learn the trade on the track through the correct use of the basics. It provides you with engine, tires, suspensions and brakes, all sized to concentrate on piloting. It makes no sense to equip advanced electronics on an 88 hp motorcycle.
Eye, it is enough power to roll very fast (230 km/h I saw on the score at the end of the line), but it makes no sense to pay “for the most powerful” if you do not dominate the essential minimums before, for which a good one is necessary hardware. Therefore, Cfmoto 675 SR-R makes sense for those who are back and do not need to roll “On fire”but they do want a cycle part good enough to enjoy on track with all guarantees.
I am sure that if I had shot for the first time in Portimao in a 200 hp superbike, it would have taken longer to learn the layout, for the simple fact that, with such power and without sites to rest throughout the batch, I would have accumulated work, tension and fatigue.
With Cfmoto 675 SR-R I not only learned the layout quickly, but I enjoyed a puddle. After the three batches, I felt no tiredness and had fun as I had long. Last summer, I rolled for the first time in the Misano circuit on a Panigale V4. I am not going to tell you that I did not enjoy, but it emptied me with energy in just a batch of 20 minutes.
With Cfmoto 675 SR-R, I have not thought at any time that I lacked power in this or that place, but how to improve my time for the next turn, delaying the reference in the braking, trying to improve the passage through curve, improving my paths.
I have been able to do all that because I had a support that allowed me to do it and concentrate on what is necessary. I was not above my possibilities and I have progressively approached the limits. For Cfmoto 675 SR-R, it has meant the real cotton test. I hope it helps more people approach the circuits to roll.
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