2025 CB1000 hornet

150 Hp , f1ck me, that would scare the sh1t out of me lol, brave Man !

Absolutely !

Looks a grand yoke for the price, given the stupid cost of most things nowadays. The SP with the Ohlins shock and Stylema calipers should make for a good road bike, it might not have headline grabbing power but if it makes it in a nice torquey fashion it could be a lot more relevant for road use than say the 214bhp Ducati Streetfighter V4. A naked bike that only starts coming alive above 100kmh is pretty cabbage wherever you try to use is as the head is being battered off you with the wind by 200kmh anyway.

Gets a great review on MCN

I don't get how anyone keeps any of these big naked bikes long term or does any serious mileage on them, the power is nice to have, but you're getting blown out of it even at motorway speeds, and in Ireland, absolutely zero weather protection.

Yeah, the twisties on a race track, very few public roads unless you're in Germany have roads anywhere near the quality needed for that type of riding, Irish road surfaces are quite bad and often dangerous VS riding around Baden-Württemberg for example.

Then you got nothing but blind bends on Irish roads, high hedges, wide farm machinery around corners, hidden entrances everywhere.

I get it, Lads like the powerful bikes but in fairness riding them even at legal speed limits is very dangerous in Ireland.

Yeah but who buys a powerful bike to ride slow ? I recently got a Deauville 700 an it's plenty fast, I couldn't find an excuse to need more power, I could make excuses but in fairness it's more than enough to move.

The issue with speed and power is that people get used to it then it becomes boring and the want more, and more. Even my old 45 Hp bike was more than fast enough for Irish roads even to have some fun.

There certainly are pros and cons to different types of bike, but I'm not getting you about big naked bikes. How is it easier on the body if you're getting blasted out of it compared to the same bike with some wind protection? This bike has straight bars and is getting ridden on the road, and would be better and more useable for the majority of owners with some wind protection. Also, the power available on a bike like this can never really be fully utilised making it fairly redundant imho.

Yeah I agree, in fact, smaller CC bikes are becoming more popular in Europe, I believe Triumph's Speed 400 is the smallest capacity bike they've made in many years ? the Honda GB 350s is coming next month, available to order now, looks and sounds amazing, speed 400 looks great and Kawasaki releasing the W230

The W230 is beautiful and check out the gorgeous analogue clocks, wish Honda and Triumph did this on their GB350 s and Speed 400 instead of making it too modern. I love simplicity, not electric shite on bikes.

I'm also a big believer that single person transport like these smaller cc bikes should be heavily promoted in Ireland instead of big heavy SUV with 1 person in the car 99% of the time.

One reason I got into bikes is the fact many , especially the modern classic Bikes look so much better than the boring as hell cars of today and they are much more exciting than sitting in a car with TFT screens in your face and hearing nothing, all refined and boring, they offer an appliance like experience for me now so I have absolutely no interest in modern cars as a result.

Believe it or not what started the desire to get my bike license was watching youtube videos of the Honda Cub 90 !

Here's the W230

Check out those W230 Gorgeous clocks , I'd buy it almost for the look of the bike and those gorgeous clocks !

Here's the GB 350s

Triumph Speed 400

Easier on the wrists and back.

You're not getting blasted out of it because you are moving around on the bike on the Twisties.

Sure on a motorway you will but I'd rather watch paint dry than spending my bike time on a motorway.

I know some people have to but biking for me has gone from a means of travel from when I was 16 to these days a luxury or hobby if you like.

I can spend anything from 2 hours to 8+ hours in the saddle on different types of bikes and if it's 8 hours I'll be less fatigued on a naked than a sportsbike.

Please Dog let this this thread not become a Deauville blog.

We have had waaaay too much of the same about that fupping TMax already. And the fupping clocks thing.

Sorry, but I'm well bored of it all at this stage!

"Just on the power thing…. I'd rather have too much power than not enough when needed to get out of trouble."

Lol, power can get you into a lot more trouble than out of it.

You could move the bikes into the conservatory or build one and sit in there all the time when you're home. 😀

We don't use the conservatory much and I'd like to use it as a home for the Deauville as I don't have a proper garage yet , if I were a single man that's where she'd be lol.

I have bikes of various sizes from this 250 to this 1400.

I have the 1400 coming up on 12 years.

191 bhp at the back wheel on a dyno.

What trouble do you think it has got me in in that time?