New Retro Honda CBX1000

[sugilite]

For me this is an odd one, I found the original models to be very, very boring. Surely Honda could have picked something from their history more exciting to retrofy?

https://www.rideapart.com/news/789020/honda-cb1000f-coming-usa-soon/

https://cdn.motor1.com/images/mgl/7Z2Ykq/s3/honda-cb1000f.webp

https://cdn.motor1.com/images/mgl/1Z2YMp/s3/honda-cb1000f.webp

[F5 Dave]

You mean CB900F?

I looked at a 750F back in the day some salesman talked me into riding.
It was top heavy and slow. No thanks, don't care how famous your brother was.

[pritch]

Back in the day I bought a new CB500 Four so I should've been a sucker for the nostalgia play but Honda just got close but no prize.
Kawasaki with the new/old Z900RS did a better job. Legacy looks with up to date suspension.

[nerrrd]

I had a CB550F, they look ok to me. They'll basically be a modern hornet underneath, surely, and not being a fan of the modern transformer naked styling, I'd prefer one of these.

[F5 Dave]

My brother had CB400. I had a CBX550 later. It was great, inboard discs were not as bad to work on as they said.
It was great until I rode a CBR600 and then got back on my bike to appreciate suspension evolution.

[diesel pig]

My brother had CB400. I had a CBX550 later. It was great, inboard discs were not as bad to work on as they said.
It was great until I rode a CBR600 and then got back on my bike to appreciate suspension evolution.

My first big bore bike was a CBX550 and the inboard discs did not work as well as the brakes my previous RZ250 which easy pull up at a little kinked bridge on my way to work and ended up hitting the armco on the CBX550 after that I was not a big fan of inboard discs. These retro honda's don't do anything for me.

[rastuscat]

My first big bore bike was a CBX550 and the inboard discs did not work as well as the brakes my previous RZ250 which easy pull up at a little kinked bridge on my way to work and ended up hitting the armco on the CBX550 after that I was not a big fan of inboard discs. These retro honda's don't do anything for me.

From memory there was a class where they raced GPz550, CBX550 and RD250LCs.

[F5 Dave]

I went from the CBX550 to last model RZ350. There was a Japanese girlfriend of weight difference [that's the international Japanese girlfriend system of weight and measures, not the American one]. None of which mattered as actual gf rode her own bike.

Don't remember them being weak as such, just people wailing on about how they were impenetrable. They were actually quite easy to remove a wheel.
That said, stop me if I've told this one before : i got a set of tyres and got the bike shop to fit them for some reason.

We came back at allotted time to be sent away as Herbert Noseblow was struggling.

I was riding the bike the next day back down the tukas and recall we had done some gravel roads earlier where I wouldn't have heard what happened next.

There was a PING and something bounced off the ground. I pulled over and the big shiney brake torque bolt was missing. I found it and refitted till I got home to check and retighten. Something Herbert forgot to do.

[sugilite]

Was it Sawyer Honda, or Honda City? Correct me if I'm wrong, but is Boyles the only surviving shop from that era?


I went from the CBX550 to last model RZ350. There was a Japanese girlfriend of weight difference [that's the international Japanese girlfriend system of weight and measures, not the American one]. None of which mattered as actual gf rode her own bike.

Don't remember them being weak as such, just people wailing on about how they were impenetrable. They were actually quite easy to remove a wheel.
That said, stop me if I've told this one before : i got a set of tyres and got the bike shop to fit them for some reason.

We came back at allotted time to be sent away as Herbert Noseblow was struggling.

I was riding the bike the next day back down the tukas and recall we had done some gravel roads earlier where I wouldn't have heard what happened next.

There was a PING and something bounced off the ground. I pulled over and the big shiney brake torque bolt was missing. I found it and refitted till I got home to check and retighten. Something Herbert forgot to do.

[F5 Dave]

Nah it was Scooter Centre. I did give feedback of course but signaled the end of me trusting someone else's work.
And yes, Boyle is still going.

Sawyacoming morphed through a few changes to Motorad, now Capital but totally different and different brands.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Honda have already done retro better than that - the CB1100s they did in around 2015. They are a nice bike and the look and proportions and so forth are "right". They are near the bottom of their inverse bell curve now I reckon - they can be had for under ten large. Plus the owners are all old pricks like me who had Honda 4's BITD.



https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/motorbikes/motorbikes/sports/honda/listing/5794870934

And calling it a CBX and it not being a 6 cyl? lame. (like CBX550s and CBX750's). Though in fairness they were not bad bikes in their time.

[240]

Personally I think these new CBS look fucking awesome.Might actually buy one.Each to their own aye.

[jellywrestler]

Nah it was Scooter Centre. I did give feedback of course but signaled the end of me trusting someone else's work.
And yes, Boyle is still going.

Sawyacoming morphed through a few changes to Motorad, now Capital but totally different and different brands.

boyles are out at the end of the month

[sugilite]

boyles are out at the end of the month

I'm genuinely sorry to hear that, so that is the last motorcycle shop to go that was operating in Wellington from back in the 80's?

[jellywrestler]

I'm genuinely sorry to hear that, so that is the last motorcycle shop to go that was operating in Wellington from back in the 80's?

yeah they go a bit back further than that too

[pete376403]

yeah they go a bit back further than that too

Recalling a special trip to town to see the first CB750 Honda Four at Lawton & Boyle in 1969. Was quite an event

[BMWST?]

Recalling a special trip to town to see the first CB750 Honda Four at Lawton & Boyle in 1969. Was quite an event
I saw one in the window of Honda City . Was a Gold n Black one Pretty sure it would have been a Thursday night A mate of my brother bought one,and my brother bought his CB450.I think they were both red n gold. he 450 def was

[pritch]

yeah they go a bit back further than that too

Was Lawton and Boyle in the 60s.

[BMWST?]

Was Lawton and Boyle in the 60s.
They had a Lower Hutt shop for a while too cnr Kings Cres and Queens Dr

[jellywrestler]

They had a Lower Hutt shop for a while too cnr Kings Cres and Queens Dr

that was peter boyle.

[jellywrestler]

Was Lawton and Boyle in the 60s.

Lawton and Boyle Suzuki, then lawton and taylor then boyles then boyle bros.

[pete376403]

that was peter boyle.

Frank Boyle on High Street, then moved to Kings Crescent location. Frank was a speedway rider in the 50s, seemed opening a shop was the thing to do after leaving the skids. Kevin Bock in UH was another one.

[jellywrestler]

Frank Boyle on High Street, then moved to Kings Crescent location. Frank was a speedway rider in the 50s, seemed opening a shop was the thing to do after leaving the skids. Kevin Bock in UH was another one.

most bike shop owners were riders they understood the trade better than most

[BMWST?]

Yeah Honda City was Mike Harris,son Chris was very good at trials

[sugilite]

yeah they go a bit back further than that too

Yep, I know. I was just going back in my mind to the early 80's as a school kid where I would come out of Wellington High School, go to Boyles, Lawtons Yamaha? (bit hazy on that one) Bike Clinic, Sawyers, Wellington Motorcycles and Honda City on a motorcycle ogling walk. I was just about to whine about the demise of Motorcycle shops in Wellington (Have not lived there for decades) when I did a google search and saw there is actually quite a few bike shops in Wellies, just smaller ones. Saw that Independent Motorcycles have a 5.0 score from 112 reviews, very impressive. The two Hutts look to be well serviced with motorcycle stores too, so yay :yes:

[BMWST?]

Yep, I know. I was just going back in my mind to the early 80's as a school kid where I would come out of Wellington High School, go to Boyles, Lawtons Yamaha? (bit hazy on that one) Bike Clinic, Sawyers, Wellington Motorcycles and Honda City on a motorcycle ogling walk. I was just about to whine about the demise of Motorcycle shops in Wellington (Have not lived there for decades) when I did a google search and saw there is actually quite a few bike shops in Wellies, just smaller ones. Saw that Independent Motorcycles have a 5.0 score from 112 reviews, very impressive. The two Hutts look to be well serviced with motorcycle stores too, so yay :yes:

Whites in Dixon street sold Yamahas ? I bought two bikes from them in 78-79 SR500 which i traded almost immediately for a xs750

[pete376403]

Whites in Dixon street sold Yamahas ? I bought two bikes from them in 78-79 SR500 which i traded almost immediately for a xs750

As a 17 yo I went to Whites looking for something to buy for not much cash. Garry Gill was a sales guy there, showed me the upstairs loft where all the trade-ins were kept - row upon row of old British iron. Alas even those cost more than I could afford. I suppose most if not all of that went to scrap, much the same as Boyles stock of old stuff (as I was told) when they put the dyno in.

[BMWST?]

As a 17 yo I went to Whites looking for something to buy for not much cash. Garry Gill was a sales guy there, showed me the upstairs loft where all the trade-ins were kept - row upon row of old British iron. Alas even those cost more than I could afford. I suppose most if not all of that went to scrap, much the same as Boyles stock of old stuff (as I was told) when they put the dyno in.
Must have been early 70s or even earlier ?.Wellington Motorcycles started in 1973

[F5 Dave]

Oh yeah, wonder what is happening with my old dyno. . . I mean Vash's, ex Sayle. :innocent:

[pete376403]

Must have been early 70s or even earlier ?.Wellington Motorcycles started in 1973
Born in '53 so yeah, 70 would be bang-on. At risk of this thread morphing into "early Wellington bike shops" I can also recall visiting Tolley & Spence in a side street off Molesworth st near Parliament, around the same time

[BMWST?]

Born in '53 so yeah, 70 would be bang-on. At risk of this thread morphing into "early Wellington bike shops" I can also recall visiting Tolley & Spence in a side street off Molesworth st near Parliament, around the same time
didnt ever know that one.First bike was '72

[pritch]

didnt ever know that one.First bike was '72

I visited Tolley and Spence with the intention of buying a Norton but the salesman was far too busy on his phone to sell bikes.

[pete376403]

Re frank boyle (and others on the speedway), this post from Andrew Lawrence (TSS) on FB

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122252942084160263&set=pcb.25149411301423453

[F5 Dave]

First bike '84 and had to go halves. Then it was stolen. (PE175) '85 before recovery of finances (XR250A ).