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Honda shows off Dakar history with exhibition of Dakar road and race bikes…

13 Мар 2015 | Author: dima | Комментарии отключены

Honda shows off Dakar heritage

Honda is celebrating its –awaited factory return to the Dakar Rally with an of race and road bikes used at or inspired by the Dakar. And if me you get every so excited about Twins, then wait you see the bikes they’ve got at the exhibition.

It is 24 since Honda entered the officially as HRC (Honda Racing even though they had success between 1981 and with five Dakar when it was the Paris-Dakar.

The exhibition features everything the new CRF450 Rally currently in the Dakar Rally in South and which Honda is calling its Machine’ internally, to early Twins and Honda XR500Rs and the EXP-2 from 1995.

no mention of it in the Japanese that we to sift our way through, but it wouldn’t a genius to work out that a edition’ Crosstourer or similar be on the cards if Honda’s Rally performs as well as they this year.

The exhibition even shows how Honda is to the cause of making a return to Dakar by illustrating a pot of sand from when the was run in Europe and Africa. The display a pot of Sahara sand to Japanese to show what problems the had to face in their thinking!

It also shows how the rules of have changed allowing the to use big lumbering 750cc V-twins in the to the lightweight 450 singles that are now.

Honda’s Collection is one of the world’s finest museums for heads. It features five of everything Honda is proud of road and race bikes to Formula One cars of the past and road cars and race

Incredibly, every vehicle in the Collection Hall is in full condition, including all the factory Grand Prix bikes I’ve been lucky to ride on more than one both in Japan and in the UK at the Goodwood of Speed.

The museum features its own with dedicated engineers and its own test track separate to the Twin Ring Motegi GP where the museum is based. If you get the chance, make sure you go, it stay with you forever.

HONDA’S DAKAR HISTORY ON AT MOTEGI:

1982 Honda racer

1983 Honda road bike

1983 XLV750R road bike

Honda XL125R Paris edition

1987 Honda Transalp road bike