Honda CB1100 was not my first choice

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Actually the W 800 and the W 650 are retro copies of the Kawasaki W2 from the 60s which kawasaki inherited when they acquired Meguro Motorcycles of Japan which originally produced that version of the 650 twin.

It does mimc the W2, but when the W650 was sold in the USA, most magazine articles referred to the W650 as a better copy of the Bonneville, then the retro Bonneville itself.