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FIRST RIDE: Honda CRF250L
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Trails, twisties and traffic – Honda’s hugely successful CRF250L can do it all. Dual-sport motorcycles live in a land of compromise. The jack-of-all-trades of the motorcycle world, they’re just as happy tackling trails as they are splicing through town traffic and tearing up some twisties. If I could own only one machine, it’d be a…
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Honda patents new seat. Helps to keep riders cool and dry.
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Although it’s not something many of us think about in great detail, the seat on your motorcycle plays a hugely important part in your riding experience. And Honda has filed a patent for an all-new seat, which incorporates a mesh upper to help improve ventilation and wick away excess moisture. The new seat features a…
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REVEALED (AGAIN): Here’s the FULL, latest drawings of Honda’s V4 Superbike. More detail about the seat ‘wing’ and the bike’s so-called ‘straightening plate’ design.
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Here’s the FULL patents that show the upcoming Honda V4. Yeah, side on drawings of the COMPLETE bike. For real. From Honda’s design department. Right here. And we’re showing you these again just in case you missed them when we showed the world these, first. Fancy seeing a SECOND set of secret Honda official designs…
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Marc Marquez-inspired Honda Grom RR. Build your own with TYGA.
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A Blackpool-based Honda dealer is offering its customers the chance to customise a Honda MSX 125. And to show just what’s possible, it’s created a super cool replica of Marc Marquez’s MotoGP Repsol Honda using TYGA Performance’s specially designed, top quality bodywork kit and exhaust system. Honda’s MSX 125 (or Grom in the USA) is an…
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Honda’s 2019 NC750 X/S with DCT gets launched in two day’s time
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With all the hype around the more headline-friendly motorcycles like the Ducati Panigale V4R and the Kawasaki Versys 1000 SE, you might have missed that the popular NC750 from Honda is getting an update for next year. Our Japanese mates at Young Machine have been told that the bike is officially available from Honda this…
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MotoGP: Marc Marquez heads Ducati trio on a rain-soaked Valencia Friday
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FP1 classification decides the order of the day as the rain continued to fall in the afternoon Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) completes Day 1 at the Gran Premio Motul de la Comunitat Valenciana as the fastest rider on circuit thanks to his FP1 time of 1:39.767, the Spaniard heading Alma Pramac Racing duo Jack…
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Honda reveals NEW Enduro and Supermoto CRF450XR for 2019. Which one does it for you?
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Built from the bones of Honda’s race-ready CRF450RX – Honda has joined forces with Italian race specialists RedMoto to unveil a new CRF450XR in both Enduro and Supermoto form. To a certain generation of riders, Honda’s hugely successful single cylinder four-stroke XR was THE go to dual-sport machine. And it seems that Honda has finally…
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REVEALED: Honda’s plans for a live heads up display beamed to the screen of your bike as your ride
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Honda has filed new designs for a first heads-up-display that will beam a motorcycle’s essential information onto the inside of the bike’s windscreen. The information will appear on a second screen mounted inside the windscreen of the motorcycle – this apes current so called pop-up information screens popular in lots of modern cars. The patent…
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EICMA 2018: Honda’s Rome R&D explains two new 125cc concepts
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For 2018 at EICMA Honda is showcasing two new 125cc design studies by the Japanese firm’s R&D centre in Rome: the CB125X and CB125M, both of which take the new-for-2018 CB125R as their platform. The 125cc segment of the market has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years, with 25% growth in the European market in…
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EICMA 2018: Honda’s 2019 CB650R appears for the first time in production form. It’s a small CB1000R Neo Sports Cafe roadster type-of-thing
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It’s hardly earth-shattering news (largely because we’ve been banging on about the CB650R becoming a Neo Sports middleweight for most of 2018) but it’s finally here. The Honda four-cylinder engine looks very similar to the CB1000R funky naked roadster, comes with 41mm Showa SFF USD forks, radial-mount four-piston brake calipers, Honda Selectable Torque…
