Cbr300r

[yod]

Another 300 to hit the market....



http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/Ne...honda-cbr300r/

[Erelyes]

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[Tazz]

Meh. Interested to see what sort of price they slap on it compared to the current 250, otherwise it really looks a little lack luster imho.

[tigertim20]

looks like its going to replace the 250.
doesnt have a whole lot of appeal to me though

[Maha]

All new lower cc 'sports bikes' are pretty generic really, from an aesthetic point of view, no real 'I must have' to be honest and a bit beige.

[AllanB]

It's a good old fashioned 'up your bum' to Kawasaki for bringing out their most excellent 300 to trump Hondas most excellent 250.

I'd have made it a 315.........

[nzspokes]

They shudda just dug out the tooling for the Hornet 250. 10hp up the road from this....

[yod]

It's a good old fashioned 'up your bum' to Kawasaki for bringing out their most excellent 300 to trump Hondas most excellent 250.

I'd have made it a 315.........

lol probably pushing it a bit when it's actually only a 286

[AllanB]

lol probably pushing it a bit when it's actually only a 286

I feel ripped off that Honda called my Hornet a 900 when it is actually a 919 ........ that 19cc is very important to me!!!!

[george formby]

Despite LAM's, credit crunches, lemming like biker statistics etc how can Honda produce a bike like this after making CBR 400's 20 years ago? I get the global market thing, I get the Asian thing, but where is the "oh my god, look at that!" thing?
I'm not blaming Honda but somebody, somewhere, is depriving us of a lot of fun!

On that note, where is my 2014 TDR?

[yod]

I feel ripped off that Honda called my Hornet a 900 when it is actually a 919 ........ that 19cc is very important to me!!!!

i know right!!

my GPz900 was a 908, my RF900 was a 937, my CBR1100 is 1137

that's 82cc I've missed out on!!!

[baffa]

Honda wise, dont bother with the 250 or this 300.

The CBR500 is a mint learners bike. Rode one recently, and its a torquey little motor, with a good setup, and still very nimble.

With almost all of these learner bikes, you can tell you'd be gagging for an upgrade after a year or two, but I can see CBR500R owners keeping their bikes when they get their full.

[lenyboi4]

I reckon my mc22 would carve this up all day long this looks nice but.....

[mossy1200]

I feel ripped off that Honda called my Hornet a 900 when it is actually a 919 ........ that 19cc is very important to me!!!!

I want to rename mine zx1441r. Its so close to 1451 and being a zx15r that I feel a little ripped off.

[Grashopper]

So, correct me if I'm wrong, but this new Honda CBR300R (sorry '286R') still has less power than my 24 year old 250cc Honda, doesn't it?
(Ok, aside of that, it has much better brakes, suspension and it has ABS, but still...)

I assume they're producing the 300 now to keep up with Kawasaki, but it seems like they are now making the CBR250R kinda obsolete.

Honda wise, dont bother with the 250 or this 300.

The CBR500 is a mint learners bike. Rode one recently, and its a torquey little motor, with a good setup, and still very nimble.

With almost all of these learner bikes, you can tell you'd be gagging for an upgrade after a year or two, but I can see CBR500R owners keeping their bikes when they get their full.

With a curb weight of nearly 200 kg I don't see the CBR500R as the best beginners bike, and even though that weight drags down the power to weight ratio, not everyone here grows up on dirtbikes and starts road riding with any kind of throttle or clutch control. So starting on a 250 or 300 is still the best way to go in my opinion. And why limit yourself to just one bike over such a long time frame, if there are so many out there, especially when as a total beginner you don't have a clue what you actually like. The 500 seems to me like a good bike after one or two or even more years on something else.