LUCKY FOR SOME

Thirteen wasn’t quite the lucky number it should have been for Honda in the noughties, but Bertie Simmonds makes a case for the big, brash CB1300.

BERTIE SIMMONDS

Believe me when I say this, but big CAN be beautiful. Chunky can be cool, rotund can be rambunctious, and hefty can be heaven. A man of my size will obviously say this, but it’s true, well, sometimes. My final school PE report noted: ‘For a lad of his size Robert is to be commended, for while the mind is willing, the body often is not.’ I like that, because, actually, we can often overcome certain physical difficulties thanks to the strength of the mind, or strength of character. And I think some bikes are like that and I’m riding one: Honda’s CB1300. This is a bike which ‘should’ just be a bit of a pose-mobile, because it harks back to an earlier era and leans on the shoulders of…

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Classic Motorcycle Mechanics (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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