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With Its Great Heritage, Why Doesn’t Honda Produce More Retro Models?

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With several major manufacturers now enjoying success with retro-styled bikes (BMW, Ducati, Yamaha and Moto Guzzi come to mind), why hasn’t Honda developed smaller displacement siblings for its excellent CB1100?

Pictured here are just two U.S. models that were popular and are still remembered fondly — the 1969 CB-450 K-1 and the 1969 CL-350.

Honda is known for being very conservative, often entering a new market segment late. This doesn’t explain, however, why the CB1100 debuted several years ago, but Honda has not followed that model with other bikes that play on its excellent heritage. The current CB500 range, of course, has a nice 471cc parallel twin that could easily drop into a new heritage-styled model. Perhaps, Honda has something planned that we don’t know about, but when will we see it?

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