Honda VTR250 Competitors of Kawasaki Ninja ZX250R

Honda VTR250

Kawasaki Ninja ZX250R

At first, manufacturers have been producing Honda VTR 250 in 1997 when the market is increasingly targeted at the domestic production for the Japanese market. And after all these years, the Honda VTR 250 eventually exported overseas, especially to Europe with the course design tailored to the desires of local consumers.

So Honda VTR 250 was made of this. With the aim to make it look sexy and powerful tight, this new motor using V-Twin engine 90 degrees, and 4 valve liquid-cooled. Here there is no difference between the bore and stroke it with previous versions, VTR 250 Interceptor 1989-1990 sold in America.

And it seems the two motors are increasingly using the same machine. It was perceived as sufficient capital to compete with the motor manufacturer, Kawasaki, Ninja 250 R. As is well known that the VTR 250 Honda engine has a power equivalent engine Kawasaki Ninja 250 R, which is about 30 hp at maximum torque 10,500 rpm.

Yet there has been no official confirmation of the price for Honda VTR 250 in Europe. If the manufacturer Honda really intend this to menarungkan motorcycle Kawasaki Ninja ZX 250 R, it's likely there will be a price range around USD 5900 or USD 64 million or more (excluding taxes)

2011 Honda CBR1000RR Sport Bike

With the CBR1000RR, Honda literally rewrote the rules for the sporting literbike class. Rated best by one magazine after another, the revolutionary Honda CBR1000RR has established new standards for light weight, superlative handling, remarkably compact dimensions and exceptional performance. Also available with our high-tech electronically controlled Combined ABS for the ultimate in sophisticated sportbike braking performance, the CBR1000RR remains the yardstick to which all others are compared.

You want performance? You want style? Then you want a Honda CBR1000RR. Designed to be the ultimate streetbike, it’s been refined to perfection on World Superbike tracks across the globe. In addition to its powerful engine and refined chassis the CBR1000RR showcases state-of-the-art features no other sportbike can match, like our electronically controlled Combined ABS and the revolutionary Honda Electronic Steering Damper (HESD). The result is one of the most awesome literbikes on the planet, but also one that’s so refined it’s a joy to ride. And after all, isn’t that exactly what you’d expect from a Honda?

Honda Super Monkey Bike!

Damm... there's some serious bank in this little bike.

One of my all time favorite small bikes. The Honda Cb400F.

One of the nicest pipes ever put on a factory bike.

Reader Ride. A Portland Oregon Custom Cafe.

Phil Writes in:

Hi,
  My name is Phil G. and i live in Portland Or. I would like to share some pics of my 71 cb750. This has been my project for the last 2 1/2 years. I would like to sit here and tell you that i did it all myself but i have to give credit were credit is due. While the over all concept and design of the bike was all me there are a few very important elements to it that would not have been possible without help from some very talented friends of mine so i have to say thanks to Sam Hill for welding the custom oil tank and the 5" stretch into the fuel tank, and to Sean Smith for laying down the beautiful black paint, Paul Burdette for the stage 3 port job and general engine building help, Ginger Mccabe of New Church Customs for the seat pad, and to Deon Staffelbach for the awesome photography,other than that i pretty much did everything myself.
  here is a list of mods and custom parts
     engine bored out to 850
     stage three ported head
     super flow valves
     webcam 63a grind
     cyclex super rods
     balanced and lightened crank and rotor
     under cut tranny
     all new bearings and chains inside
     cr 29 carbs
     custom aluminum oil tank
     stock fuel tank stretched 5" with knee dents
     custom rear sets (modeled after dunstall rear sets from the 70's)
     custom s.s. muffler
          Anyway, thanks for looking
                  Phil

 My pleasure Phil.  Thanks for sharing!

http://newsportmotorcycle.blogspot.com/

Reader Ride. Sweet Honda Hawk GT.

Jack Michaud Writes in:

Hi,
My dad turned me on to your blog. Nice stuff! Here's a pic of my 1989 Honda Hawk 650GT. Why Honda gifts this market segment to Suzuki I'll never know!

I couldn't agree more. This bike was years ahead of the SV and they gave just up on it too soon. Damm shame.

Reader Ride From Spain! A Honda CM400T Street Tracker.

This may be the nicest CM400T on the planet. Damm that is cool.

I've said it here many many times. You do NOT need big money or big engines to build fantastic bikes. And here we have another excellent example of that. This beauty was built by Mario Trigo Salorino wo writes in:


Hello, my name is Mario and I write from Spain. I'm a fan of your blog for a long time. Always show the style of bikes that I like. It is a daily appointment required.


I want to show a personal project I recently completed. It is a Honda CM400T, base uncommon, has been done by me and some friends. I do not define his style, bobber, track, brat ... is a modest project but I'm very happy with the result. Major changes are, handlebars, handlebar switch, repositioning of the electrical components and battery box, exhaust, rear set, clocks, modified original seat and paint job. Appear on your blog would be a reward for my work. I hope you like.


A greeting and continued with this great blog. Muchas gracias.


PS. Sorry for my English.

Your English is fine Mario It's an excellent build. I am labeling at a Street Tracker but you're right it has elements of other styles in it as well.  ! Thank you very much for sending in these great picture!

Reader Ride. Morocco Wanderlust.

Francesco Veneziani writes in:

Hello

Thanks a lot for the countless moments of deep inspiration or simple daydreaming thank to your blog

 Here a couple of shots of the morocco trip in 2008

Pippi looking at road ahead down from Imilchil to the Todra Gorges

The plateu going up toward the Djebel Sangro

Just south of the Plage Blanche, desert's ships, animal and mechanical

Congratulation for your job.
Thank you for the excellent Pictures!

Update: (missed a good pic) Very Nice Low Budget Chop From the Netherlands.

More proof that you don't need big money or big horsepower to build a cool ride.

Bjorn Writes in:

He hello my name is Bjorn I'm 20 years old and I'm from the Netherlands. I'm a regular visitor of your site. And i love it especially the frequent updates i digg. I have a picture of my motorcycle as well, hopefully you like it.

I bought it as a stock Honda shadow vt600 but right from the start i knew I was going to chop it. Because i dont like stock stuff in general. I bought this Honda because i wanted a vtwin but because of legislation here in the Netherlands you cannot ride a bike with more than 25 kW (34 hp) if you are under 21 years old. since i was 19 at the moment i had to buy a bike with this power restriction and this bike has 34 hp stock.
I tried to make as much of the components myself from the handlebars to the stainless steel exhaust, sidecovers and everything in between, because i didn't want to buy shit out of catalogs because everybody can do that. I could use the lathe and mill at my school to machine parts. And my little brother is a welder so he helped me out with that. Lots of time went into making a foot clutch and a tank shift. It worked in the end but after some test riding i found it to dangerous to drive here in Holland with the million roundabouts, so i changed it back to stock controls. I also had an open exhaust but i found it to loud so i tried making a muffler with a design like i had never seen on a other bike. It works very well actually. Also made my version of a sissybar.

I use it as my daily driver to school, work, friends you name it. i now you didn't ask for this whole story haha, but me personally, I'm always interested in the story behind a bike. At the moment the bike is nearly done, the riding season here is at its end so i can put the finishing touches on it like a muffler decoration and new pegs. I cant wait to start a new project.

greetings from the Netherlands!

Bjorn

Not Sold in the U.S..... So where the heck IS the new CB1100?

It's been off the radar for so long that I forgot about it.  Come on Honda!

Mike Skelton RIP. Stellar Reader Ride. Honda CBRXX.

I recieved notice from Mikes wife today that he had passed on August 5'th.  Mike contributed the CBXX in this post below.  I didn't know him personally.  I think his wife was just being thorough by notifying everyone in his e-mail list as to not miss anyone.  From his obituary it sounds like he lived a life filled with motorcycling and good friends.  Godspeed to you Mike and sincerest condolences to his family and those who knew him.

His obituary reads as follows:

Michael Roy Skelton, 53, passed away at his home in Conyers, on Thursday, August 5th, 2010. Funeral services will be held at Rockdale Baptist Church in Conyers at 11:00 AM on Monday, August 9, 2010 with Rev. Mark Walker and Rev. Dane Skelton officiating. Interment will follow at Lawnwood Memorial Park. An elegant motorcycle rider, having a great passion for sport touring, Mike acquired a broad network of riding partners, planning and executing intricate routes from the Smokies and Blue Ridge all the way to Canada, making Tail of the Dragon seem like Sesame Street. Mike is survived by his wife Laura Woodyard Skelton, his step-daughter Angela Chambers and granddaughter Alaura Kilgore; mother, Stella Brown Skelton of Decatur, GA, brothers Rev. Dane Skelton, of S. Boston, VA and Warren Skelton of Panama City Beach, and their families. He was preceded in death by his father, Schafer J. Skelton, Jr. The family will receive friends on Sunday, 2-4 and 6 to 8PM at Horis A. Ward's Rockdale Chapel. The family request that in lieu of flowers, please honor Mike's memory by making a donation to The Salvation Army, Rockdale Baptist's Ministry to Lakeview Estates, 1295 Smyrna Rd SW, Conyers 30013 or any charity of choice benefiting children in need. Horis A. Ward's Rockdale Chapel 770-918-8851.

 Sounds like a life well lived.




The original post below.  He certainly had the right tools for his craft.

I got these pics of this outstanding CBRXX from reader Mike Skelton and it got me to thinking about how this bike was one of those victims of bad timing. Honda Developed this bike in it's usual way. Look at a bike segment and attack it with cutting edge quality. In this case they were essentially responding to the Kawasaki ZX11 that was the hyperbike king at that time. The problem was that while this bike was an outstanding leap forward it was a temporary victor. Kawasaki and Suzuki leapfrogged this machine (and each other) with 2 versions of the Hyabusa and ZX12 and ZX14 leaving this bike a distant memory in the stat sheet wars. And what a shame that was because this bike could have really defined it's own niche had it been given just a bit more time take old.

Anyway this all leads me to what I'm getting at. I think I'm going to start a regular feature about unsung, overlooked and under appreciated bikes ffrom all eras, sizes and brands. It won't be every day but I'll try and get one in every other week or so.

Aaaaannnnnyway... Mike writes about his beauty of a ride:


I purchased this bike new on 4/2/2002 from the dealer where I worked. Nothing like getting a new bike off the truck and out of the crate!


It is a CBR1100XX that I sport tour on, purchased for my 45th birthday. I have upgraded the suspension with Race Tech fork mods, a custom built Penske shock, Braking Wave Rotors and DP HH pads. Other mods for long distance are VTEC VFR handle bars, Grip Puppies, and the rare (in the US) factory panniers available in Europe and Australia. The bike also has Speigler braided SS brake lines and GPS. I also installed Canadian market Super Blackbird decals.


I usually ride between 100-500 miles a day and the 139db air horn hidden under the fairing has saved me from getting hit several times! The bike currently has 62461 miles on it and my favorite place to ride is the Cherohala Skyway (www.cherohala.org) that runs between TN and NC.


Really enjoy the site!


Thanks again,
Mike Skelton

The Little Honda CB Classic Cafe

You see the Honda Classic small cc builds. Makes me wish I as 25 years younger and 100 lbs lighted. This Honda CB looks like cafe racer style

MV Augusta and Honda Classic Racers

MV Augusta and Honda Classic Racers - Cafe Racer Motorcycles

Honda PCX 125cc Cruiser Scooter

Honda PCX 125cc Cruiser Scooter

Honda will be introducing a new scooter archetypal for the ASEAN and all-around bazaar soon, alpha with Thailand area it will be produced. The new Honda PCX is powered by a 4-stroke water-cooled 125cc distinct butt agent that can do 50km per liter on the ECE 40 MODE cycle. It’s not activity to be cheap, as the PCX will be positioned as a high-end but high-value model. The Honda PCX appearance an “idling stop system” area the agent can shut off automatically back the scooter comes to a complete stop. This can advice save ammunition burning while you delay for a cartage ablaze or for whatever acumen you’re chock-full – cartage jams don’t assume to affectation that abundant of a botheration for these bikes.

New Honda CBR 250RR Launched

New Honda CBR 250 RR

Madrid - If PT Astra Honda Motor (AHM) is still a lot of thinking to get a full fairing sport bike for throwing ninja 250 the domination of this class, is not the case with Honda in Spain.

For Honda plans to spend CBR 250RR to compete with the might of Ninja 250 and Hyosung GT 250 R at the scene of the matador's country.

As quoted from the site detikOto Spain Solomoto, Saturday (31/10/2009), Honda reportedly is preparing the birth of motor sport anyarnya platform built over the CRF 250R to hit the Ninja and hooks young children Spain.

Honda CBR 250 RR that it was also carrying 249.4 cc engine belongs to the CRF 250 R 32kw/11000min belching power with 29.3Nm/8500min torque.

There's more fun that their principals in Japan in the coming 2011 will also bring CBR 250 RR is the 'mother country' that is in Thailand and India country where Honda has factories with a large capacity with a plan to modernize all of their product models for later exported to various countries

2010 - Honda PCX Scooter Picture

Honda PCX Scooter 2010 Picture

2010 Honda PCX scooter is able with high-tech 4-stroke 125-qm agent with aqueous cooling - a absolutely new architecture company. Especially engineers are appreciative of the minimum ammunition burning - 2 l. 100 km. This was accomplished mainly through the arrangement automatically stops the agent during abandoned time.

Thanks to cyberbanking ammunition bang arrangement PGM-FI, Honda PCX will accumulate the best accurate to date ecology standards of Europe and the USA. The amount of a scooter is not reported, but it should be absolutely affordable - to abate assembly costs, the assembly of the scooter will be acclimated for accepted Honda technology and components.

The actualization of markets in Japan, the United States and Europe scooter Honda PCX accepted already in 2010.

Honda CBR1000RR and CB1000R Sportbike

The leading two-wheeler manufacturer, Honda to launch CBR1000RR and CB1000R in India, its two new superbikes on 27th February 27. These superbikes Honda CBR1000RR and CB1000R will be initially sold in the four metros Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata. Honda exclusive stores will cater these superbikes exclusively to demands for these bikes.

Honda is set to expand these superbikes stores to other cities in Stage 2 and will also account for the servicing and other issues related to the bike. The expected price of Honda CBR 000RR is around Rs. 12 lakh and Honda CB1000R might be priced at Rs. 10 lakh. Initially Honda had announced its plans to launch superbikes in India before the end of the current fiscal.

Reader Submittal - Great CBX Streetfighter Motorcycle

Reader Chris Max sent the following along with a bunch of great Streetfighter. Looked through your Motorcycle Pic a Day Blog and came to the conclusion that you need more streetfighters in your life.

And you're right Chris I love the streetfighter style! Here's one of the bikes he sent. I'll get more of them up over the next week or so.

You are looking for streetfighter motorcycle, classic motorcycle, classic modification, honda classic motorcycle, or honda modifications?

This is a Great CBX Streetfighter Motorcycle

Are you like to look another Streetfighter motorcycles??? please click here - streetfighter motorcycles, and classics motorcycles here - classic motorcycles

Honda CB1000R - The Naked Super Sports Bike

Honda CB1000R is a naked super sports bike from Honda Stable with a refined engine of Fire Blade re-tuned for mid-range performance and dropped into a naked frame. Specs include fully-adjustable forks and radial front brakes taken from the Fireblade, all-new single backbone frame, single sided swingarm, a superb looking 4-swept-spoke ninja-star rear wheel, an all-digital dash and and H.I.S.S. security system.

No horsepower figures as yet but expectations are for around 120hp from the re-tuned 1000cc engine.

Honda Classic Modified with Super Wide Tyre

Extreme Honda Modification - Honda Classic Modified with Super Extreme Wide Tyre