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The 1983 Honda CX650T fulfills the promise
last year's Turbos couldn't keep. Honda has come a long way toward defeating
limp off-boost power and turbo lag, making the 650T a splendid Grand Touring
bike that thrives on back roads as well as on highways.
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Honda GL1000 Gold Wing (1977) |
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The Gold Wing gets some refinements, misses
others.
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Honda GL1100 Gold Wing (1980) |
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What it lacks in excitement is made up for by
excellence.
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Honda MR versus Hodaka Thunderdog (1976) |
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250cc Off-Road Comparison.
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A lot of people have wanted this motorcycle
for a long time without even knowing it.
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Honda SL 100 Street-Trail (1970) |
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With this new engine, Honda has produced the
first four-stroke in recent history that develops as much specific power as the
two-strokes. And it's quieter.
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Tell the truth. Is it really a dirt bike? The
answer depends on how you define dirt riding.
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Here's the Honda version of The Look That
Made Milwaukee Famous. If you think the styling of the VT750C Shadow is radical,
Brother, you don't know the half of it.
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Two lightweight four-strokes that would be
good bikes even if they were not four-strokes.
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Many people consider 175cc to be the most
useful capacity for a dirt bike because it has enough power with the least
amount of weight.
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Honda XL250 Motosport (1972, Cycle World) |
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Sophisticated. Tractable. Quiet. It's nearly
everything you'll ever want in a dual purpose bike.
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Honda XL250 Motosport (1972, Cycle) |
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No more than you would expect from Honda, and no
less: an absolutely brilliant, inspired engine, superb styling, careful
detailing, and too much weight.
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A new four-stroke
dual-purpose whiz that's a mule in the backwoods and a tiger in the asphalt
jungle.
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When Honda introduced the XR line of
full-size playbikes in 1979, there was the big XR500, the middle-weight XR250
and the lightweight XR185. The larger two got most of the fancy developments,
and the power and the publicity. But somehow when the tests were all done, most
of the staff liked the XR185 best. It was light, agile and fun to ride, even
though the engine lacked the power to really keep the pace set by the big guys
and the more serious two-strokes. So here we are in 1980 and the little XR185
has grown into the XR200.
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Finally, Honda's "Fun Factor" XR200R gets
an RFVC engine—and new competence.
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Survival, not speed, for the off road jungle.
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Trail-wise thunderbike for fourstroke
fanatics.
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For a European motorcycle company,
challenging the Japanese at 125 motocross is just about like playing Russian
roulette with a fully-loaded gun: There's no apparent way to win.
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The motocrosser with no built-in mistakes.
You'll make one before it will.
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If spec pages and dyno charts revealed
everything there is to know about a motocrosser, you'd pass right by the
Husqvarna 250 CR. Its anemic horsepower figures and gargantuan chassis
dimensions are—in turn—appalling and astonishing. But Good Numbers alone don't
win races: Every part and design of the CR is complementary, and that's why it's
so easy to ride the Husky so fast.
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