Honda’s 2018 big naked. More details emerge from teaser video

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Honda has released its second video teaser under the ‘Neo Sports Cafe’ banner – and this time there’s a lot more on show of the big retro-styled naked that we’ll see at EICMA in early November.

 

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Whilst Honda hasn’t given all the game away the new video does show that the bike is a four-cylinder motor (so not the supercharged V-twin that we first revealed a while ago thanks to filed patent drawings from Honda’s design office – below).

It also goes on to reveal that the bike has more retro feel to the bodywork and exhaust design than the illustration from top Japanese magazine Young Machine (below) imagined.

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We can also see (below) that the bike does have a single-sided swingarm with a Ducati Diavel-esque floating numberplate holder. The round LED-powered headlight looks on-trend.

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What do you reckon? Is this enough of a retro for you to get you interested or is it not modern enough?


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