With the new 750 parallel twin, Honda has a fourth platform after the CB500 twin, CB650 four-cylinder and NC750 twin, which currently consists of the CB750 Hornet and the XL750 Transalp. The colleagues from the Spanish Solomoto have added a third model: the CBR750R.
No, it is not a scoop of a new model that Honda has been working on in the deepest secrecy, but a very nice visualization of what would not be a bad idea at all. The wish may have been father to the thought, but we would not be surprised if the idea of ​​those Spaniards turns out to be true at the end of this year.
As a result of increasingly strict emission requirements, development costs are skyrocketing, as a result of which more and more brands are switching to platform engineering – a platform of models with the same block and bicycle part (whether or not partly) as a starting point.
Indeed, just as Honda has already done with the CB500, CB650 and NC750 platform. With the NC750 this has resulted in an NC750S, NC750X and Forza 750, with the CB650 in the CB650R and CBR650R and with the CB500 in no less than the CB500F, CB500X, CBR500R, CMX500 Rebel and CL500 Scrambler.
Now that supersport seems to be rising from its ashes in the form of lightweight mid-range engines, with power that can still be driven on the street and for price tags that won’t break the bank, it’s not such a bad idea if Honda comes third model of the new 750 platform would launch a CBR750R.
Honda does not have to do much for it. Swap the handlebars of the CB750 Hornet for two clip-ons and mount a nice fairing and Kees is done. With the CBR750R, Honda would immediately deal a sledgehammer blow to the Yamaha YZF-R7, which has to do with a meager 73 hp at 8,750 rpm, where Honda gives up the new Hornet for a top power output of 92 hp at 9,5000 rpm.
Solomoto’s Spanish colleagues may have given free rein to their imagination, but Fanta is quite nice from time to time. And secretly we hope that it turns out to be a reality at the end of this year.
– Thanks for information from Motorfreaks.