Riders’ Reports: Honda’s Thumpers
Riders’ Reports… Honda XL600… Honda NX650… Honda FT500… Honda GB400… Honda NX650… Honda FT400… Honda XL600There’s always someone willing to put the boot in, isn’t there? On the ride home...
Riders’ Reports: Honda CB450 and CB500T
..Honda CB450 and CB500T.. Riders’ Reports… Honda CB450… Honda CB500T… Honda CB500T… Honda CB450K… Honda CB500T… Honda CB450SS… Honda CB450 Black BomberThe 1967 Honda CB450 looked okay, had done 20,000...
The Best and Worse Japanese Bikes of the Nineties
The Nineties This was the decade of the race replica, no doubt about that! The fundamental survival route was minimal mass and maximum power crafted in a way that made...
The Best and Worse Japanese Bikes of the Eighties
The Eighties A decade when weight was lost, handling improved, engines became more powerful and the overall package more useful. It was also one of ever increasing complexity, poor frugality...
The Best and Worse Japanese Bikes of the Seventies
The Seventies This was a decade that began to erode Honda’s omnipresence in the manufacture of four stroke twins and fours. That they failed to really develop their sixties designs...
The Best and Worst Japanese Bikes of the Sixties
The Sixties The bike that defined the sixties was undoubtedly Honda’s CB750, though there was a lot that was bad about it, its overwhelming impression was good. It put to...
Honda CB500 Rerun
Just fifteen years ago I gave up biking for good, sold the Z550 and all my gear.. Fifteen years on I realised that every time a bike pulled up next...