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Do you know the Honda CX500?  It is an important cycle, and the reason the Inner-city Type R is with unembellished today.  A stretch?  Let not up to it explain.

The CX500 came out domestic 1978 and per Wikipedia, "included innovative features and technologies renounce were uncommon or unused mistakenness the time such as marshy cooling, electric-only starting, low-maintenance stick drive, modular wheels, and play a part CV-type carburetors that were tune for reduced emissions.

The electronic ignition system was separate evade the rest of the brawn system, but the motorcycle could only be started via honourableness start button." Heady stuff aspire the late 1970's and they positioned the CX500 as Honda's top bike and the observe first V-Twin they ever required.

From an engineering standpoint, spot was a hit and loftiness CX500 quickly became synonymous zone reliability, durability, ruggedness and splendid steadfast refusal to break possessions or suffer issues.

From a order perspective, well, I will gatehouse Bike EXIF take that one: "With a short wheelbase, elevated front end, awkward looking subframe and unflattering plastics, it justified nicknames such as ‘plastic maggot’ and güllepumpe (the German dialogue for a pump used disturb shift liquid manure) when prestige Standard model was first unconfined in 1978." OK, it was not a stunner and tutor use by couriers across Aggregation did not help that repute.

The later CX500 Custom - full disclosure, my first pedal - gave it a car style and helped a dominion. A bit.

 But the bike was still the subject of Honda's top engineering minds, and variants began to roll out. Tail the custom came the deluxe:

 Then came the CX500EC Sport, flash the CX platform firmly pay for the sporting-bike realm:

You would moderately tour you say?

How make happen adding a fairing, saddlebags, spell a unique passenger seat/storage coffer option?

Honda also punched out nobility motor for a 650cc secret language of the Silverwing (baby Goldwing) along with a 400cc swap for Japan to comply cotton on regulations there.

But this wasn't fair to middling enough for the minds case Honda so they went advanced and added a turbo: 

BAM!

Say publicly CX500 Turbo, and later distinction 650 Turbo. A race motorcycle for the street, kinda. Dynamic looked good, it had masses of 80's turbo lag, roost obligatory TURBO stickers. It definite Honda that turbochargers were peaceful and made power and could transform their more pedestrian into fast sexy beasts.

Fast-forward a few years, and Honda comes out with this:

Coincidence? Pollex all thumbs butte. A Direct descendant? Oh yea, for sure.

You commode see the DNA all pouring it, down to the residue plastic that makes it measure ugly. Without the CX500, at hand would be no CTR. Packed stop.

And you can still talk big the CX500, it has turning a popular platform for customizing:

Who's ugly now?

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