Why different bikes for different countries?

[flynrider]

Can someone give me the reason why Honda doesn't sell all versions of the CB1100 in all markets? I could understand not selling a bike in a country where it just doesn't sell well but why only this color or that variant etc etc?

There's a lot that goes into it. Part of it is what the marketing department thinks will sell best (i.e. colors, style), part is pricing and part is manufacturing efficiencies.

Price-wise, the U.S. market has traditionally been more price sensitive than the Euro/Asia market. The last series of CB750 in the U.S. was a downgraded version of the Euro/Asia version specifically because of price concerns. I suspect that's also why they deleted the spoked wheels on the '14 DLX.

In manufacturing, bikes built to a specific country's standard are usually built in one batch. Depending on what differences there are, that could limit the number of options they're willing to introduce into the production line. An example would be both the U.S. and Canada each having one color choice in '13, while Europe which also shares emission and other standards with Japan had more.