Honda Neo Sport Café 650
Moniker sound familiar? It appears that Honda is replicating last year’s exercise with its eventual CB1000R production bike, but this time around in 650cc mode…While most of the world’s motorcycling attention was focussed on the Intermot show in Cologne this week, up the road in Paris Honda was making waves of its own in the French capital by showcasing a ‘Neo Sports Café’ concept model.
Name sound familiar? Well, it certainly is, as that’s exactly the same name Honda used in 2017 when it unveiled a Neo Sports Café at the Tokyo Motor Show that morphed into the CB1000R a matter of weeks later at the EICMA motorcycle show in Milan.
Only this time he Neo Sports Café is taking a 650cc route, in what is likely to be a replacement for Honda’s CB650F – the engine looks the same – to join similar styling exercises in not only the CB1000R but also the CB125R and CB300R nakeds.
The New Sports Café naked has an ultra-short tail and vertically stacked dual muffler, but there’s no single-sided swingarm like the CB1000R.
What’s next? If the rapid-fire evolution of the CB1000R is a precedent, we may even see the production version of the CB650F unveiled at EICMA next month.
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