Feast your eyes on what is, in my opinion, the most beautiful mass-market motorcycle ever sold in America: the 1989-90 Honda GB500 Tourist Trophy. The GB500, introduced to the Japanese market in 1985, didn’t arrive on U.S. shores until 1989, and represented an idea in motorcycling that was sort of ahead of its time, despiteContinue reading “Honda GB500: The Perfect Motorcycle at the Most Inopportune Time”
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Air, Water, and the Re-Imagined Legacy of Honda Motorcycles
Honda revolutionized motorcycling as we know it with the introduction of the the Universal Japanese Motorcycle, or “UJM” for short. The premise is simple–consumers should be able to buy one motorcycle that can do everything, and it should do everything well. A UJM needs to be nimble enough to navigate city centers in traffic, butContinue reading “Air, Water, and the Re-Imagined Legacy of Honda Motorcycles”
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