You guys in the UK suck, because you get the good stuff and I am jealous!
I have never really liked the new style of motorcycles. I always admired the old, no fairing, engine showing, upright sitting position, traditional bikes. Well as some of you know, I plan on buying a bike after I graduate from college. So occasionally I take some time and do some drooling over bikes on the internet. My favorite bike has always been the Honda CBX, especially the 1982 Honda CBX with fairing removed.
Here’s the Honda CBX;
Now while doing some internet drooling I came across this guy that had a CBX and a newer Honda with a matching retro paint job.
Matching Paint Themes:
I really liked the new bike with the retro paint, and since it gets harder and harder to find a CBX in excellent condition due to the age, my interest was piqued. Unfortunately the guy did not post any info on the model, just pictures.
The Newer bike with retro paint scheme:
So I thought no problem, I will just go to the Honda website and find the bike. The closest I found was a Honda CB900F (919 Hornet).
Honda 900 Hornet:
I thought that maybe this was the bike in the picture. I went to a local dealer and checked one out. Very awesome bike, bike it looked a little different than the one in the picture. So I recently did some more web searching and then I realized that Honda makes several awesome bikes, but they are not released in the USA. This is why I could not find them on the North American Honda website.
They even make some similar but smaller models, but again not released in the USA. My wife wants a motorcycle too, so it would be cool to have matching styles but a smaller one for her. We plan on getting matching retro paint jobs too.
If only I could figure out how to import two bikes, one for her and one for me!?
Here are the smaller ones that my wife is interested in.
Honda 250 Hornet: (Might be too small)
Honda 400 Hornet: (This would be good or the 600)
There’s lots of Honda 600 Hornets available here because people have brought them in from Canada. This is probably what I will buy my wife, unless I can find a way to import a smaller one.
Honda 600 hornet:
And here is the bigger Hornet that is more of my liking.
This bike really makes me drool; I wish I could import one for myself. This is what was pictured in the matching Hondas with the retro paint scheme. Man, I really want one of these bad boys, but I will probably get stuck with the 900 Hornet since this would have to be imported.
Honda 1300 Hornet:
So that’s why I am jealous of you UK Gits!
Though some bikes try to catch my Zed and fail 
