Rumors there will be a Honda Rebel 1000 based off the engine from the Africa Twin for 2019.

I tried to search if there is any thread where I can post my first bike, but didn’t found any thread about the first bike. If there is one I didn’t found, dear admin, please link this to the existing thread.

My first bike in 1990 was a Honda VT 500 E.
Pretty sure nearly nobody knows this bike.
V2, 50 hp (Limited to 27 to obey the law for student drivers within the first two years)
I put 70.000 km on it with no problems.



So, what was your first bike?

I'm planning on getting a set of hand guards and heated grips installed some time before the end of October, and I wanted to a little insight from those of you that have been using them for a while:

Regarding the heated grips themselves, Honda OEM or aftermarket? which is more popular? My gut tells me Honda OEM.

Regarding the Hand guards: I currently have a Dart Marlin Screen (Smoke) and I want to keep up with that same "blacked out" look, so if i get hand guards that are clear, i'd prefer if they were also heavily tinted. The only one I've seen like that in my limited research is the Chicdesign model (https://www.samurider.com/?p=17262). Are there any alternatives? It's worth pointing out that i'm also not completely sold on them being transparent either. If there are any solid black ones i'd take a look at those too.

What are some common things i could accidently permanently ruin due to inexperience while installing heated grips?

The perspective of the camera is a bit weird. I kept wanting to look up

And holy cats...where in the U.K. is he riding? So many vehicles on such narrow streets... I'd buy the Monkey just to get around by lane splitting.

[url=https://www.visordown.com/road-tests-first-rides/honda-monkey-125-launch-%E2%80%93-video-review]Visordown Monkey Review

The air cleaner cover (on both sides) of my 2014 Deluxe are light gray in color. Any picture I see of the Deluxe the covers are black. Does anyone else have light gray covers? Or know why mine are gray?

I had the displeasure of dropping my bike in the yard the other week (or rather, gravity dropped it). Parked it on an uneven pitch to lock my shed up and plop, there she went. No biggie, except my front brake lever came out looking like a hook. Tried to bend it back and ended up breaking it into 3 pieces, lol. New lever ordered, installed, no problem. EXCEPT.....

I can’t get the old RLET off of the broken lever. If it was intact, it’d be possible, but it’s just the tip so nothing to grab onto. So my CB is lobsided. Is it safe to ride until my replacement RLET comes in? Am I disrupting the overall balance of the bike by riding 1/2 naked? Have I completely disrupted the chakras to an unsafe level? Will God himself smite me in the middle of the road???

Hello,

I would like to mount a dual USB power outlet on my bike and need to locate the aux power terminals for this bike. Reading a few threads people talk about it being in the headlight and be the battery/fuse box? Any help appreciated photos always help. I took a photo of my headlight insides if someone knows where I could tap power or use the aux connection I can't seem to find.

Thank you,
n8vyc...

Wow,

What a deal,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2013-Honda-CB/1...%7Ciid%3A1

Last week I got the chance of a lifetime to participate in the Suzuka 8 Hours race together with one of the top teams. We got invited to join the Moriwaki team for the whole week, and it was an experience of a lifetime. I have always wanted to go to this race, and this was really more than I could have hoped for. The whole event was awesome, the team was wonderful, the fans incredible and we lucked out with the typhoon that passed over us during the night of Saturday to Sunday.

The two riders for the team were Ryuichi Kiyonari and Yuki Takahashi. These guys are real top riders, with Kiyo having won the BSB championship three teams, and Yuki having won Japanese championships as well as raced in Moto2. They are huge stars in Japan, and the fans love them.

Yuki:


Kiyo:


Honouring the fans in the pitlane:


The bike:


Yuki waiting to take over:








It is beginning to get dark:


The finish line:


The atmosphere was just magical at the end. The riders rode up the pitlane, high-fiving the fans and doing burnouts. It was like a huge celebration to motorcycle racing. Just wonderful, and a real bucket list thing done in my book!!

The team had gambled at the start as the only team to go out on slicks in spite of the rain that had just started to fall. It was a good gamble as it quickly began to dry up, and they were soon the fastest bike on track. Unfortunately during the 8 hours, there was quite a number of safety car interventions, each time really messing things up for the plan our team had, and so they could not benefit from their early advantage. In the end the finished a very respectable 8th out of over 60 teams, but they certainly had it in them to be on the podium if the luck would have gone a little bit the other way.

I am not big on making modifications to my bike as I feel Honda got it right pretty much for everything from the beginning. The only thing I have done up until now is to put on a Road Comet.

Last week I had the privilege of attending the Suzuka 8 Hours with the Moriwaki team, which was simply an unbelievable experience. I figured I had to come back with a little something for my bike, and got this nice titanium oil filler cap: