Many mediocre riders (like myself) find it easier to practice “awesome” things (not necessarily “good riding” things) like getting a knee down or little wheelies on small motorcycles than large ones. I know, that pic just puts you to sleep, right? And it’s just one… you can find tons of similar videos and photos online. Nothing bores me to tears like getting my knee down on 9hp of 125cc that everyone who rides describes as “ludicrously fun”. Honda MSX125 Grom Honda Grom against a brick wall Also, when that turbo kicked in, riders tend to fall asleep. It had substantial power lag, it was expensive, and it was heavy at over 250kg. Riding the CX500 Turbo was apparently a challenge, though. They also added an ECU to control the turbo, fuel injection and electronic ignition… in 1982. But Honda upped the 497 cc engine’s power by a good 30hp up to 82hp at 8,000 rpm by adding a tiny turbocharger.
The CX500 was already cool, with his horizontal 80-degree V-twin. Honda - and shortly thereafter, other Japanese motorcycle manufacturers - all did briefly think a turbo was a good idea in the early 1980s. The CX500 Turbo: Because we really need a turbocharger on motorcycles to make them even duller. I’d still pick a Valkyrie though… especially that Valkyrie Rune. They’re big, comfortable, refined cruisers. There are a couple of other bikes that the DN-01 inspired, like the CTX700 and CTX1300.
It makes around 50kW (66 hp), drives the sport tyres via a shaft drive, has combined ABS, can actually lean and… did I mention it’s a cruiser? It has floorboards! And they’re quite high up, and not too easy to scrape. The DN-01 has a 680cc V-twin that you also found on the Deauville (a name I do un-sarcastically find boring). But it still has push-button-selectable gears if you want, so you can boringly rip through the box on the way to the shops. That makes some people call it a “scooter”. The DN-01 is many things: it’s a cruiser, it’s avant-garde in design, and it… has an automatic (CVT) transmission. Whatever it is, that futuristic design that looks like it just arrived here at light speed from another dimension to help you commute to buy the groceries is very, very… boring? They were so edgy.” - Wayne Gardner Honda DN-01 Honda DN-01įollowing on, let’s go around 1,000 years into the future, into a time when motorcycles own people. “There was nothing like riding a racing two-stroke… The NSR was light, agile, had 200bhp and was so responsive to the throttle. “Viewed from any angle, Honda’s almighty NSR500 is intimidating, but looking at it from behind the bars makes my mouth go dry and my pulse pound into the red zone.” - Lance Holst, Cycle World People who won championships on them included names you may have heard of like Valentino Rossi, Mick Doohan, and Wayne Gardner.
The torque came on just like that, slapping you in the face with an oversized hand that would send you to the other side of the track before you could say “argh”. What made them insanely boring was that they went from 50hp to 150hp in just 100rpm, at the 9,700 rpm point. It was a two-stroke 499cc V-4 with 200hp output at the time it was sunsetted in 2002. Let’s start this onslaught of boredom with the NSR500, a V-4 2-stroke with 200hp that would probably decapitate you just for looking at the throttle at the wrong part of the rev range.
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