Assume again, if you’ll, to March 2020. It was an unsure time, as the primary waves of a worldwide pandemic stored a decent lid on massive gatherings. That is why Honda, amongst different bike OEMs, selected to harness the worldwide energy of the Web and go digital with its bike reveals that 12 months.
One which grabbed lots of consideration on the time was the CB-F. And really, it wasn’t solely Honda’s option to share photographs in black and white that made it clear the model was going full retro right here. That slab-sided tank, significantly when taken with the fastidiously sculpted define supplied by the four-into-two exhaust wrapping across the stomach and the blocky, angular tailpiece had been clear callbacks to Honda’s Nineteen Eighties design language.
The headlight is spherical, not sq.; however each it and the wheels are the three roundest issues on show right here. All the things else? Blocky, slabby, and adorned in these beautiful retro stripes that Honda’s performed properly because the starting. Quick ahead simply 5 years, and Honda’s taken that idea seemingly a number of steps additional with the introduction of a brand new iteration: the CB1000F Idea.
Photograph by: Honda
Photograph by: Honda
Photograph by: Honda
Honda CB1000F Idea Artwork by Nakaki Pantz
Honda kicked off its 2025 bike present season on the Osaka Motorbike Present on March 21, 2025, the place it will run by way of the twenty third. From there, it is on to Tokyo and Nagoya over the following couple of months. The CB1000F Idea is a design from Moto Honda da Amazonia Ltda (Brazil) designer Yuha Suzuki, who beforehand additionally designed two different latest hits for Honda: the CRF1100L Africa Twin, and the X-ADV 750.
In response to Suzuki, the driving theme behind this idea was “CB for a brand new period.” In any case, Honda has been making CB-designated bikes for longer than many people have been alive, so it is necessary to strike a steadiness between honoring the previous whereas nonetheless dealing with the longer term.
One other variation of this idea can even be on show in any respect three Japanese bike reveals in 2025: the CB1000F Idea Moriwaki Engineering, which shall be a extra racing-focused imaginative and prescient of this mannequin.
What do you suppose, are you hoping that the CB1000F turns into greater than only a idea? Would you journey one when you might? If not, what would you modify about it? Let me know within the feedback!
