02-06-2021, 10:48 PM
(02-06-2021, 08:47 PM)Tev62_imp Wrote:(02-06-2021, 04:25 AM)PowerDubs_imp Wrote: They are just re-hashing stuff they read from other old articles.
The only changes were the intake snorkel on the airbox, and the exhaust.
Unless all the part # lookup software is wrong..
You seem to be right PowerDubs, Marketeers, their imagination know no bounds. The Honda guys have emphasised this "always there" feature on journalists and they have completely got the wrong end of the stick. The journalists are getting this mixed up with cam timing. Here is another making the same assertion that the "cam timing" is altered.
Meanwhile, the 88bhp motor in both CBs has an enhanced, offbeat gruff feel and a grumbling exhaust note. It comes from alternate cam timing; cylinders one and two have different timing to three and four (they fire in 1-3-4-2 order) – for no reason than to lend charisma to an otherwise smooth and featureless in-line four power delivery. It certainly works – it’s a bit like the engine’s got a misfire (or as if its carbs need balancing... if it had carbs). The original CB11 in 2013 featured the idea, but the effect is amplified in the EX and RS with tuning to the single intake manifold and exhaust silencers.
The review is at least a little different than the normal stuff and does go into some interesting history of the engine.
https://www.visordown.com/reviews/first-...-ex-review
(*sigh*) " ... featureless in-line four ... " - That attribute never came to mind every time I mounted the wonderful machine.