Honda CB1300 Family Tree

If you want a liquid-cooled, large capacity four-cylinder four-stroke Honda with ‘classic’ looks you could check out the Honda CB1000. Known as ‘Project Big-1’, the daft name was thankfully soon dropped (it was an American brand of toilet cleaner) and rebadged the CB1000 Super Four. This 1993 machine used the CBR1000F motor and was a pleasant-enough bike which lasted until 1997 in the UK range. We will be testing one soon! The original CB1300 came along in Japan in 1998, using the motor from the Honda X4, which was sort of a VMAX competitor. Original CB1300 colours harked back to a golden era, aping schemes worn by bikes like the CBX1000 and CB900F. For 2003, the bike would get an update and finally be imported into the UK following its…

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