Honda specialises in making bikes that go significantly better than their spec sheet suggests. And that’s true for the 100bhp/238kg NT1100 sport tourer. Primarily based on the Africa Twin engine and body, it’s been an enormous hit in Europe and the UK since launch in 2022, promoting greater than 12,000 items to date. For 2025 it’s getting a reasonably complete replace, with new extra protecting bodywork, further midrange torque and elective semi-active suspension.
The engine will get a basic top-end tweak for extra grunt: altered consumption and injector geometry, a bit extra compression, completely different gasoline mapping and greater consumption trumpets, all of which give an additional 7Nm, with peak torque coming in 750rpm sooner – 112Nm @ 5500rpm. Peak energy stays as you have been: 100bhp @ 7500rpm.
The elective semi-active suspension comes from Japanese agency Showa, dubbed Showa Electronically Outfitted Trip Adjustment (Showa-EERA). Specifically developed for the NT1100, the EERA claims to robotically present optimum damping relative to stroke velocity, adjusting damping based mostly on bike velocity (from the ECU), bike stance and perspective (from the IMU), and fork behaviour (from the stroke sensor). And all of it occurs in 15 milliseconds. There are three pre-defined suspension modes: City, Tour and Rain, plus a customisable Consumer set-up that’s totally tweakable.
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No phrase on worth or availability but: anticipate full particulars on the NEC bike present in November.
