As expected, CMX1100 Rebel arrives...

[Easy-X]

https://www.honda.co.uk/motorcycles/range/street/cmx1100-rebel/overview.html
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[wr6133]

Sorry Easy but it makes me want to either claw my eyes out or bomb the factory. I don't get how anyone signed it off aesthetically.

[pepperami]

Hmm? Yer? Err? I dunno?
It’s definitely not my forever bike and the styling is not really my cup of tea.
However I’ll bet it’ll be comfortable and easy to ride over a considerable distance.
I bet Honda will sell shed loads of them.
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[Polarbear]

Horrible. Not much else to say about it.

Honda have made some lovely bikes but in the aesthetics department they have as many failures as successes.
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[Weisse Schlange]

Now that is an ugly bike.

It'll never break down I suppose, but it looks like a chopped Bandit.
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Hing Oan

[arry]

Minging. Bit of a shame really; it could have been a decent machine for when I get to mid 50's.

[stinkwheel]

I concluded long ago that Honda occasionally make decent bikes by accident, then spend the next 20 years rectifying that by slowly designing them into the ground by making them steadily worse and more bland with each iteration.
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[doggone]

I wonder if their new CB350 might be a surprise hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU6-l41MDL4

Will go down well in India where it is placed as competition for Enfields

[Bhud]

[Easy-X]

Funny thing is I tend to agree. The 500 Rebel is a fairly unique proposition in that there aren't many A2 cruisers so a lot of the design choices might be forgiven.

1100? Hmm, now you're in the range of the Yamaha XV950R (Bolt) Speedmaster and Harleys. Compared to any of those it fails on looks utterly They should have gone a bit "T120 into Speedmaster" starting with the CB1100RS or EX instead of upscaling the CMX500.

It's about the same price as the Yamaha but with a better* engine. Oh! and apparently you can get better lean angles out of it; always atop the list of potential cruiser owners concerns Nobody in this marketing bracket forgoes looks for spec sheet Top Trumps, ffs.

I still rate the 500 as a cheeky little urban hooligan but I'd take the designers and marketing guys on the 1100 team out behind the chemical sheds

*better performing engine, impractical as an air-cooled V-twin is at least it looks nice.
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[grr666]

That silencer was modelled on a sliced loaf wasn't it? I know most people will remove it immediately anyway but
there was no need for that! The audio of what it sounds like was bloody awful too.
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[spottedtango]

Another 270 degree parallel twin. Bring back the 360 and 180.