2025 CBX1000 the return of a legend...

[Taipan]

Rumours abound that Honda has patented a new CBX1000, the CBX1000RR. As much as I'd love to hear and see a modern one, I really cant imagine it'd be viable in todays market?

[Yorick]

In the sports market, weight is everything.
Would be a cool sports/tourer

[mangocrazy]

Looks like another Kardesign mock-up.

Everything about that pic screams Photoshop or AI (or both).

[Taipan]

In the sports market, weight is everything.
Would be a cool sports/tourer

yebbut that sound!!

[mangocrazy]

Have you actually listened to the nonsense they're spouting? Front fork will be a 'Double inside-down shock breaker'

It's on a par with Freddy Starr ate my Hamster...

[Mr. Dazzle]

Looks like another Kardesign mock-up.

Everything about that pic screams Photoshop or AI (or both).

You mean you can't sit on a bike with both feet off the ground?

[Mr. Dazzle]

BTW OEMs patenting stuff means basically FA.

I work for an OEM and I patent shit all the time. We even score ourselves against other OEMs on how many things we've all patented. There's a department for it.

Has almost no relationship to what we plan to sell.

[mangocrazy]

Looks like another Kardesign mock-up.

Everything about that pic screams Photoshop or AI (or both).

You mean you can't sit on a bike with both feet off the ground?

There's also a distinct lack of lower body on one of the gents behind the seat hump...

[Taipan]

BTW OEMs patenting stuff means basically FA.

I work for an OEM and I patent shit all the time. We even score ourselves against other OEMs on how many things we've all patented. There's a department for it.

Has almost no relationship to what we plan to sell.

Okay if Honda aren't serious then how do you explain this! Go on, go on! You can't can you!

[Yorick]

In the sports market, weight is everything.
Would be a cool sports/tourer

yebbut that sound!!

I'd happily have an original one in my garage.

[ChrisW]

Looks like another Kardesign mock-up.

That's being a bit rude to Kardesign!!

If that goes into production I'll buy one and ride it down the Mall in swimming trunks.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I don't want an original one, they're a bit shit, they weren't even the best Honda of that era.

[Sadlonelygit]

I don't want an original one, they're a bit shit, they weren't even the best Honda of that era.

A Moto Martin for sir perhaps?

[Yorick]

I don't want an original one, they're a bit shit, they weren't even the best Honda of that era.

When they came out, they blew the world apart.
You kids have no soul

[KungFooBob]

Surely not a six pot?

Think of the R&D spend, they'd never make the money back before we are all on leccy bikes.

[mangocrazy]

Surely not a six pot?

Think of the R&D spend, they'd never make the money back before we are all on leccy bikes.

And air-cooled motors have been effectively legislated off the road. It's a complete non-starter.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I don't want an original one, they're a bit shit, they weren't even the best Honda of that era.

A Moto Martin for sir perhaps?

Oh God no, they make a Harris Magnum look comfortable.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I don't want an original one, they're a bit shit, they weren't even the best Honda of that era.

When they came out, they blew the world apart.
You kids have no soul

I know two people who had them in the 80s, both of them managed to bend con rods by attempting to start them after they'd been parked on the side stand overnight, both of them also say they'd have another one !!
I looked at buying one in 1986, it was £1400, but at 19 the insurance was going to be crippling.

[Taipan]

Love this build...

[Mr. Dazzle]

Surely not a six pot?

Think of the R&D spend, they'd never make the money back before we are all on leccy bikes.

And air-cooled motors have been effectively legislated off the road. It's a complete non-starter.

Bikes which don't start are great for emissions.