Highlights

• The RC45 is a full on race bike created by Honda Racing for homologation purposes for the Superbike World Championship
• Only 200 were manufactured worldwide, and per AMA rules, 50 were imported into the United States, with about 20 going to private race teams
• Like its predecessor, the RC30, the RC45 featured a liquidcooled V4 4 stroke engine with gear driven cams and a single sided swingarm
• Unlike the RC30, the RC45 used a radical fuelinjection system (dubbed PGM FI for Programmable Fuel Injection) borrowed from the exotic ovalpiston NR750 using 46mm throttle bodies with a total of seven sensors to deal with the mixture control
• In its peak race form, the RC45 made over 190hp, with some calling it the best superbike ever produced