JOHNNY CAMPBELL TRIBUTE: HONDA XR628R BAJA!

[weeksy]

https://www.bikebound.com/2021/05/16/honda-xr628r-baja/

Well yesterdays offering got 36 views and 0 replies... Maybe this one will do better

[cheb]

I like that.

[Taipan]

Nice. I had a xr600 Supermoto. Great fun but no electric boot and a tendency to stall saw it didn't stay long!

[lostboy]

Oh yes!!

[Potter]

Well yesterdays offering got 36 views and 0 replies... Maybe this one will do better

I struggle to summon up much delight with a lot of these magazine cover bikes these days, so I don't comment because I don't want to just leave negative comments all the time.
I used to open magazines and drool over stuff, but it feels like it's all aimed at fashion wankstas now, not blokes who like motorbikes - and the biggest kicker is I feel a twat liking retro stuff from the 70's and 80's that appeals to me because that's the height of hipster fashion wankers, so I'd feel self-conscious on any of it because everyone would simply assume that I'm a bell end (which I might be anyway )

This one looks ok, I quite like it, but honestly I don't know how it differs from a standard looking offroad bike.
The XT500 looking DR you posted looked good, aside from the back end.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Like it a lot, as a former XR owner that rocks.
There's something cool about kicking a big dirt bike into life, otoh it's not so cool when it takes 30 kicks to start because it hasn't been started for a couple of weeks, which is what my one did.

[KungFooBob]

Why have they gone to all the effort of re-creating the plastic tank in metal?

Surely a plastic tank is more durable on a baja bike?

[ogri]

Why have they gone to all the effort of re-creating the plastic tank in metal?

Surely a plastic tank is more durable on a baja bike?

To stop it melting with the modern fuel?

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Why have they gone to all the effort of re-creating the plastic tank in metal?

Surely a plastic tank is more durable on a baja bike?

Fuck knows, though every plastic tanked dirt bike I've owned has sweated petrol from the tank, after a while the stickers came off, usually while riding.