After Rebel and NT1100, even a modern classic could adopt the Africa Twin engine: Honda would have a new edition of the Hawk in the barrel, powered by the parallel twin borrowed from the maxi-enduro
The Africa Twin engine may soon have a new customer. According to rumors coming from Japan, in fact, the parallel twin of the Honda maxi-enduro could equip a third bike by 2023 in addition to the Crf1100L itself, the custom Rebel 1100 and the tourer NT1100: it would seem to be in the pipeline. a new modern classic with the same 1.084 cc “heart”, a bike dedicated to the most nostalgic customers who could dust off the historic name Hawk.
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The news, which is based on some patents filed in Japan by the same house of the Golden Wing, was amplified by the magazine Young Machine, a Japanese magazine that has also published a render of the still hypothetical retro nude. The new Hawk, which according to Japanese colleagues should be directly inspired by the CB400 T Hawk II of the seventies, would use a double cradle chassis substantially “borrowed” from the custom Rebel: configured in this way, the Tokyo modern classic would collect the inheritance of the CB 1100, four-cylinder that disappeared from the European price list because it lacks Euro 5 homologation (the Final Edition version is on sale in Japan, to underline how even in its native country the fascinating four-in-line is now at the end of the credits) . If the operation were to be confirmed, it is very likely that the future Hawk will bring – together with the Africa Twin engine – also the option of the Dct, a double clutch gearbox that we greatly appreciated during the test of the new NT1100.
December 26 – 6.15pm
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