Looks like they are bringing out a 500cc Scrambler-
2023 Honda CL500 | Honda Scrambles the 500 | MCNews
It's being touted as "The Enfield Killer".
And the TransAlp seems to be on it's way-
From MCN- https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-...transalp/2023/
Should be interesting.
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Folks keep looking for smaller lighter bikes… these look fun!
I had actually read the news earlier today and thought cool!
There was another story about the CL77 , 305 Scrambler, I actually got to ride a few times but with open snuffer-notsstill a blast at 16 until I got a ticket
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Most I saw had the muffler removed fairly quickly
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In my view Honda would have been better off keeping the look more like the 70s CL scramblers, e.g.,
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Not sure they are marketing to OG’sOriginally Posted by robsryder
that remember those classic bikes.
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These were cooler, had a blue one for a very short time, no blinkers or mombo mid seventies taillight
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I like the new modern take, street fighter meets scrambler
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I had an SL 350 back in the day. Fun and simple although maybe the beginning of a motorcycle getting too heavy for a “dirt” bike.
One of a number of bikes I wish I still had.
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Even James Bond has switched to a scrambler, albeit one from Triumph rather than BMW.
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Interestingly back in the day... Steve McQueen, in the movie The Great Escape, chose to ride a Triumph (sort of made up to look like a BMW [didn't really fool anyone]). The famous scene where a jump was attempted across some barbed wired fences to gain freedom in Switzerland was something most folks can recall.
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A former Isle of Mann (and other venues) racer, Guy Martin, recreated that jump using one of the Triumph Scramblers. Interesting...
Elsinore!
At the beginning of "On Any Sunday", Bruce Brown states that the McQueen jump scene was what got him interested in motorcycles.
Man I'd buy something like an SL 350 in a heartbeat! What's the closest thing to one now? I guess a DR650 is about the same size and weight, with actually a little more power. If Kawasaki would make one around their Ninja 400 and do what Honda did, keep it light and widen the transmission ratios.......
21 V85TT, 93 R100R, 20 XT250, 22 Goldwing. No car is as fun to drive as any motorcycle is to ride.
More on the Steve McQueen motorcycle jump in the linked article (interesting comment about BMW bikes).
https://www.vintag.es/2018/11/steve-...cape-jump.html
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I had one of these. I rode it from Biloxy, MS to Des Moines, IA in 1967.Folks keep looking for smaller lighter bikes… these look fun!
I had actually read the news earlier today and thought cool!
There was another story about the CL77 , 305 Scrambler, I actually got to ride a few times but with open snuffer-nots
IMG_6652.jpeg
Most I saw had the muffler removed fairly quickly
Bill
How many gas stops
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