Honda Puts Stop To Production Of U.S. Motorcycles
Honda is closing down their manufacturing plant in Marysville, Ohio and will be relocating it and the Hamamatsu plant in Japan to the brand new motorcycle plant in Kumamoto. This will cease all production of Honda motorcycles in the U.S. – which will begin next year.
The Marysville plant produced 44,000 Gold Wing and VTX models. Usually with a change like this we would expect to see hundreds of layoffs. However, Honda is providing for their employees and will be relocating them to the different Honda businesses located around the entire state of Ohio.
Honda Plans To ‘Revolutionize’ With New Retro Bike
Honda has decided that the best way to create a unique and attractive motorcycle is to make it ‘retro’ Honda has designed the new CB1100F is based on the CB motorcycle from the 1970’s. They are hoping that this new design will ‘revolutionize the sporting bike game’ and take people by storm.
The CB1100F’s air-cooled engine, skinny “right-side-up” fork and dual shocks are carry-over pieces from the original design. Of course, that’s why it looks retro and why many people would likely run to their nearest Honda dealership to place their orders.
2000 Honda Shadow Sabre
The 2000 Honda Shadow Sabre is a V-twin hot rod cruiser that every motorcycle enthusiast loves to drive. Which is why Honda dubbed it as “a bold new street rod”. Honda had created the concept for the bike years before it was put into production. They finally decided in 1998 that it was time to puch it into full devolpment. They chose to do it at this time because of the demand for cruisers at that time.
2006 Honda CBR1000RR
Honda’s CBR1000RR has been the most user-friendly literbike since it was first introduced in 2004, but changes, that are being made, for ‘06 should result in a sharper tool without changing it into a twitch monster, even if its changes aren’t as extensive as some of us would like. One of the biggest changes that they will be doing is giving it a revised motor.