Honda Crossrunner coming to Aus

**thepom** · 6th July 2011, 06:15

looks abit like the vfr1200...........

**NordieBoy** · 6th July 2011, 07:53

Originally Posted by Eddieb

I thought the BIG was a collection of boxes of parts in the corner of the garage. It's spent more of it's existence in that state than as a working Dual purpose bike.

It's so far ahead of it's time, they're having to wait for time to catch up. Until then, it's more of a "potential bike". Schrodingers bike if you will.

**Night Falcon** · 6th July 2011, 17:14

If your definition of an adventure bike is 99.999% sealed road riding and the ocasional gravel driveway then the crossrunner is...errr... a runner. But I am curious as to the name crossrunner? Wonder whats supossed to have bin crossed to make it ?...it aint roadrunner and the kyote, more like multistrader and a varadero would be my guess

I mean really...is this an adventure bike or a maunfacturer trying lamely to cash in on the pointy end of the motorcycle market....adventure bike sales! But the real adv riders wont be fooled by lame marketing......If looks like a banana and smells like a banana....it probably anit an oranage

(any reference to KTM in that last alagory is totally coincidental

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**JATZ** · 6th July 2011, 18:06

Originally Posted by Eddieb

I thought the BIG was a collection of boxes of parts in the corner of the garage. It's spent more of it's existence in that state than as a working Dual purpose bike.

A mans gotta have a "project". And those boxes are oooozing style, grace and purpose

Originally Posted by Padmei

Now I could be really nasty & say most of their bikes are like that but I won't- I'll just infer it.

I'm not even going to dignify that with a response

except...

**JATZ** · 6th July 2011, 18:08

Originally Posted by Night Falcon

more like multistrader and a varadero would be my guess

That's about where I would put it, except it "looks" even more roady than those two

**warewolf** · 6th July 2011, 20:39

Crossrunner... Honda's 20-years-late copy of the 1991 Yamaha TDM850...

Tell me I'm wrong!

**dino3310** · 6th July 2011, 23:20

Originally Posted by warewolf

Crossrunner... Honda's 20-years-late copy of the 1991 Yamaha TDM850...

Tell me I'm wrong!

could be right there, except the TDM is a little more practicle to our type of riding, i think a little more stylish too

**5150** · 7th July 2011, 16:39

Nothing wrong with the bike.... if you are blind.

Or is it an atempt to design a dual purpose adventure type bike for those posers, who buy it along with all the other kit and don't actually ride it off road, instead of choosing to pose on them at the local McDees carpark

**Eddieb** · 9th July 2011, 22:26

Originally Posted by http://motorcycles.honda.com.au/Sports_Touring/VFR800X

THE FLEXIBILITY AND EXCITING ATTITUDE OF A NAKED PERFORMANCE MACHINE WITH THE UPRIGHT RIDING POSITION AND RUGGED APPEARANCE OF AN ADVENTURE

Nuff said.

**clint640** · 11th July 2011, 11:34

Originally Posted by Eddieb

THE FLEXIBILITY AND EXCITING ATTITUDE OF A NAKED PERFORMANCE MACHINE WITH THE UPRIGHT RIDING POSITION AND RUGGED APPEARANCE OF AN ADVENTURE...

Nuff said.

Naked rugged adventure?? Kinda reminds me of a pic I once saw on the wall of the William Creek pub

Clint