Ben Branch
October 2, 2020
The Honda CX500 Turbo was a one-year-only model released in 1982 that helped fuel an arms race among the big four Japanese motorcycle manufacturers to produce ever faster and more powerful forced induction motorcycles….
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Ben Branch
September 30, 2020
When the pandemic had me stranded at our South Western German workshop for the summer, my 1993 Honda XR650L got some TLC. I always loved the combination of the fun aesthetics and the utilitarian function of early 80s rally bikes.
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Ben Branch
June 22, 2020
The six-cylinder Honda CBX was released 10 years after the seminal Honda CB750 as a new halo model for the Japanese marque. The original CB750 had triggered an arms race for superbike supremacy between…
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Ben Branch
April 19, 2020
“Honda CB750 – The Birth of the Superbike” is a new short film from the team at Brightside Media, it gives a look back at one of the most important motorcycles of the 20th century…
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Ben Branch
December 13, 2019
This is an original Honda CB750 Sandcast, it’s called a “sandcast” because it was built in the first year or production when sand-casting was still being used to cast the crankcases. Honda quickly released that…
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Ben Branch
November 13, 2019
The Honda VF1000R was the high performance member of the Honda VF1000 model family. All models had an advanced V4 998cc double overhead cam 16-valve, liquid-cooled engine but the VF1000R had a series of modifications…
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Ben Branch
September 1, 2019
This short time-lapse film captures the restoration of an original 1969 Honda CB750 (Sandcast). Remarkably the restoration was completed by Sam Roberts in a small one-car garage, and he finished the bike to such a…
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Ben Branch
June 8, 2019
This is the new Tamiya 1:12 scale model of the also-new Honda Monkey 125. The new Honda was released in 2018 as a 2019 model, evoking the styling of the much loved Honda “Monkey”…
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Ben Branch
March 16, 2019
This series of 13 custom Honda CB1000Rs were built by official Honda dealers across the Iberian Peninsula, including Spain, Portugal, and the Balearic Islands. Each dealer was given a new 2019 Honda CB1000R, with a…
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Ben Branch
November 14, 2018
The Honda Monkey Z50R was released in 1979 as the new and improved Honda Monkey bike – so named because people looked like monkeys when riding them, with their knees up, arms out, and shoulders…
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Ben Branch
November 9, 2018
The Honda Hornet, known as the Honda CB600F in some countries, is considered by many to be about as close to the perfect daily rideable motorcycle as it’s possible to get. The Honda Hornet CB600F…
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Ben Branch
November 2, 2018
The Honda S800 Racing was a special and very limited edition model developed by Honda France as a turnkey high-performance model for aspiring amateur racing drivers. The Honda S800 The Honda S800 was directly based…
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