Honda, or the big H of motorcycles has shown its 2014 line up. The biggest disappointment was the lack of a V4 engine for its CBR 1000 RR but the motorcycle did receive some small changes that should keep it going till the all new motorcycle makes its debut sometime towards the end of 2014, at the next EICMA perhaps?
No this is not the 1000 RR but the 300 R
Honda have done well to recast the lower capacity in the same mould as the CBR 1000 RR rather than the VFR mould and call them CBR. The existing CBR 250 R has constantly faced one criticism and that is that Honda has tried to paw off the VFR looking bike as a CBR. Now that the game is growing in this sector Honda has wisely upped the cubic capacity to 300 like Kawasaki did with the Ninja 250 R and made the motorcycle look like a shrunk CBR of big capacity. In India too it is expected that the VFR look alike CBR will be replaced by this new CBR 300 R which not only has extra cubic centimetres but also the look of the CBR family. So its a matter of time before the VFR look alike will stop selling in the market. And talking of the VFR, Honda has introduced a smaller capacity VFR and funnily enough this does not look like the bigger and original VFR. Some think that it has a CBRish look.
This is the VFR800F and does anyone see a resemblance to the bigger VFR? Does it look like the CBR family bikes – we will leave that for you to decide.
However Honda also had new offerings in the 650 cc segment as well. These are the F spec motorcycles and not R spec. Looks like Honda is concentrating on the commuter/tourer space with these.
One can reasonably assume that this is to take on the likes of the Kawasaki ER-6N.
And what about this the CBR 650 F
Is this against the likes of the Kawasaki ER-6F and also the same motorcycle that gets sold at the Ninja 650 in America, South East Asia and India?
But this is got to be the big daddy of the road going Hondas shown at the EICMA.
Mean looking 1300 cc tourer with panniers and all other paraphernalia. We like it.
Honda also had an off roader motorcycle and like all off roader and dual purpose (on and off road) motorcycles it too has a beak. We still do not know the significance of the beak which is a feature on all motorcycles of this genre from Ducati to Honda.
See the beak? Please somebody tell us what it is all about. This motorcycle goes with the CrossTourer moniker.
Big H also had a large capacity maxi scooter, the Integra, the two wheeled equivalent of a crossover, so its a motorcycle with the features of a scooter or it is it that it is a scooter with features of a motorcycle? Honestly we have no clue.
This is the Integra. Anyone who can answer if this is a scooter or motorcycle primarily?
Rumours from Milan also suggest that Honda is actively considering launching a naked Goldwing to be called the Goldwing F6C and that this will sit in between the CTX 1300 and the existing fully dressed Goldwing F6B. Clearly Honda is experimenting. Signs of a healthy company, but when was Honda not a healthy and intelligent company?