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.