Honda News: Is a touring-ready Rebel 1100 on the way?

Rumours are swirling that Honda’s gearing up to release a touring-ready version of its Rebel 1100 cruiser in the coming months.

With the big bike shows just around the corner, the rumour mill is going wild with speculation about what’s on the way from the top manufacturers. While patent filings, emissions documents and spy shots are all good indicators of what to expect, they don’t always give the full picture… and it could be that the very bike we’re expecting to arrive this year won’t get its big reveal until next. It’s not always easy to get it right. But there’s one magazine that’s on the money more than most: Young Machine. It constantly surprises with the specificity and accuracy of its new bike news – which is why when it says there’s something on the horizon, other people listen.

It reckons that Honda’s going to reveal a touring version of its Rebel 1100 in the coming months. We’ve no idea about how it came about this news, and there’s no official word from the factory just yet but, based on past success, we’re now quietly confident that a luggage-laden, faired version of the Rebel 1100 will be coming for 2023. In truth, it seems like a bit of a no-brainer for the factory. It’s currently missing a bit of a trick by not having a ‘more traditional’ cruiser/bagger in the range, and with a few small tweaks and a couple of additions, the job is basically done.

There’s talk of more new bikes from Honda, too. The factory hasn’t even tried to keep its Hornet 750 a secret (with official design drawings and teasers released earlier in the year), but there hasn’t been any official word on the much-rumoured and eagerly anticipated Transalp 750. It’d make sense. Honda’s gone to all the effort of creating a new 750cc engine, so why not make the most of it and use it as a base for a couple of bikes…?

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