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Anyone here ever own one of these?


I have never seen one

HondaJon Thanks for sharing this picture. Can you share the link to this, I would like to finish reading the rest of the article. Btw, it looks so much like our CB1100 that this concept would work. Only with a much bigger engine.

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Capo has one...see posts 10 and 11

http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2197

And its not surprising you have never seen one. Honda brought them in for 2 years IIRC and they were not good sellers. Highly collectible now though.

(03-05-2014, 11:38 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Capo has one...see posts 10 and 11

http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2197

And its not surprising you have never seen one. Honda brought them in for 2 years IIRC and they were not good sellers. Highly collectible now though.

It's a lovely bike, built either before or after it's time, depending on one's perspective. It's a momentum bike rather than a blistering performer. Get it into a nice flow, and it's a delight to throw around the back roads. A sporting single, light and agile, and beautifully built and finished. A keeper!

(03-05-2014, 11:38 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Capo has one...see posts 10 and 11

http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2197

And its not surprising you have never seen one. Honda brought them in for 2 years IIRC and they were not good sellers. Highly collectible now though.

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Such a beautiful bike. I'd love to own one.

(03-06-2014, 12:01 AM)redbirds_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Such a beautiful bike. I'd love to own one.

The GB500 is a homage to a number of vintage machines, not unlike the CB1100. Difference being that it is a tribute to old British thumpers, rather than the CB's reference points of various '70's Honda models. It does a great job of capturing the spirit, but not necessarily the glory, of AJS, Velocette, BSA and others. Here are a few shots of bikes that influenced the GB500, taken on one of my trips to the Isle of Man, along with one of the GB in repose.

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When I worked at the Honda store when it came out all the employees called it "The Horton" because it looked a little like the Norton
Max

Guys that rode and raced 500 one lungers before electric starters and counter balancers were real men.

Honda should stuff the current xr 650l motor into that GB chassis and cash in on the vintage bike market.