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2014 Honda CTX700 – Road Test Review

If you’re an experienced motorcycle enthusiast, you’ve probably pigeonholed these new Honda CTXs as just beginner’s bikes and are about turn the page. Not...

Retrospective: Honda PC800 Pacific Coast: 1989-90, 1994-98

What happens when motorcycle designers share a drawing board with automobile types? The answer may be the Honda Pacific Coast. Rumor had it that after...

Back-to-Back Classics: Honda CBs New and Old

Among the classic Japanese motorcycles that deserve a modern tribute, few come to mind as quickly as Honda’s line of air-cooled, in-line fours, starting...

2013 Honda CB1100 – Road Test Review

Take a look around your garage. Is there an old radio that’s been tuned to a classic rock station for as long as you...

2013 Middleweight Metric Cruiser Comparison Review

My favorite comfort foods, heart-warming and artery-clogging classics like mac-and-cheese, buttermilk biscuits and pulled-pork barbecue, are straightforward and uncomplicated, each prepared with a short...

2013 Honda Shadow Aero – Review

Like Kawasaki’s Vulcan line, Honda has had Shadow cruisers in its lineup since the early 1980s. Over the past three decades, engine displacements have...

Grom, Forza and CRF250L Join Honda’s 2014 Lineup

American Honda has introduced a selection of machines that will be in its 2014 powersports lineup, including the 125cc Grom street bike, 279cc Forza...

2013 Honda F6B | Road Test Review

Last year, more new touring motorcycles were sold than bikes in any other individual street bike category, even cruisers. Touring includes luxury performers such...

Comparison Test: 2013 BMW C 650 GT vs. 2013 Honda NC700X

We aren’t normally a shiftless bunch except for an hour or two after lunch, but we recently spent the last two weeks swapping between...

2013 Honda CBR600RR | First Ride Review

Ten years. More than 100,000 units sold. Multiple AMA Supersport and Formula Xtreme championships. Seven FIM World Supersport titles. Genesis for the official spec...

Video Review | 2013 Honda Gold Wing F6B

Rider Magazine gives you a close look at the new 2013 Honda Gold Wing F6B motorcycle. One ride on the Honda F6B and you'll...

2014 Honda CTX700 and CTX700N – First Look Review

At the Chicago round of the International Motorcycle Show, Honda announced updated colors and pricing for the recently released NC700X and the introduction of...

Retrospective: Honda NC/NA50 Express: 1977-1983

When the price of gasoline rose to 60 cents a gallon back in 1976, Honda figured it had a whole new market. Americans were...

Rider Comparo: 2013 Honda CRF250L vs. 2013 Kawasaki KLX250S vs. 2013 Yamaha WR250R

The last time Rider corralled a herd of 250 dual-sports (April 2008), we chose the thriftiest models available in the face of rising gas...

2013 Honda CRF250L: Ridden & Rated

Conventional wisdom says you can’t please everyone, but that’s not stopping Honda from trying. Its new 2013 CRF250L dual-sport has a liquid-cooled, fuel-injected, single-cylinder...

2013 Honda CB1100 | First Ride Review

When I was a young boy, my father introduced me to the joys of motorcycling. Dad would take my brother and me on leisurely...

2013 Honda PCX150 | First Ride Review

Good things may come in small packages, but Honda’s pint-sized PCX just got bigger…and better. Honda has upped the PCX125’s liquid-cooled, 125cc single-cylinder engine...

Honda Adds Six 2013 Models that will Surprise You

American Honda clearly feels bullish about 2013. It has already introduced three new models for the upcoming year (NC700X, CRF250L and PCX150), and it...

2012 Honda NC700X DCT ABS Road Test

Motorcycles are not appliances. Even if your main goal in buying one is to accomplish a daily task like commuting with the lowest possible...

Rider Comparo: Honda NC700X vs. Kawasaki Versys vs. Suzuki V-Strom 650 ABS

Mid-size bikes make a lot of sense. Not only because they tend to be less expensive and lighter, but also because they have become...

Six Degrees of Temptation: Ridden and Rated Special

When Victory fired off the invite for its 2013 Boardwalk model launch, we looked up from our meatball subs, wiped the marinara sauce from...

2012 Honda VFR1200F DCT – Road Test Review

Honda held nothing back when it overhauled the esteemed VFR sport tourer for 2010. Engine technology and architecture was adapted from Honda’s MotoGP race...

Hannigan Motorsports 2012 Honda GL1800 Trike | First Ride Review

Due to its touring prowess, the Honda GL1800 Gold Wing has long been a popular platform for trike conversions. The GL1800’s engine and drivetrain...

2013 Honda Motorcycle Models

The list of 2013 Honda models is growing as a dozen new additions were recently released. This latest release includes four different variations of...

Retrospective: Honda XL350 Dual-Sport: 1974 – 1978

(This Retrospective article was printed in the June 2012 issue of Rider Magazine.) This four-stroke woodser was an immediate hit with the casual rider, and...

2012 BMW K 1600 GTL vs. Honda Gold Wing GL1800 ABS | Comparison Test Review

When BMW unveiled the all-new 2012 K 1600 GTL, a high-tech, high-performance replacement for the long-running K 1200 LT, the company declared that it...

2003 Honda VFR800 Project Bike

I guess I was pretty busy in my forties, because I forgot to have my midlife crisis. Now, 20 years later, I’m finally getting...

Honda Announces New Scooters for 2013

Honda enters the 2013 model-year season with two fun scooters that contain significant upgrades: the thoroughly revised Metropolitan and a new PCX scooter with...

2012 Honda CBR1000RR – First Ride Review

Liter-bike horsepower wars aren't over, but they're past the shock-and-awe phase of the campaign. With peak rear-wheel figures exceeding 150, sometimes by a considerable...

2012 Honda NC700X | First Look Review

At the New York stop on the International Motorcycle Shows tour, American Honda is unveiling an all-new model, the 2012 Honda NC700X. First seen...

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