All Tests – Honda CBF1000 FA Test: la sainte-nitouche! – Change in continuity …

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Honda CBF1000 FA test: the holy nitouche !

All Tests - Honda CBF1000 FA Test: the holy nitouche! - Change in continuity ...

Effective in devil, the CBF1000 seemed so far timid and decked out in a sad dress. Thanks to a gentle redesign, she now intends to play the card of seduction, even daring, without questioning its astonishing homogeneity.. Test.

Change in continuity…

By extrapolating slightly, the new Honda CBF1000 model 2010 represents much more than the culmination of the philosophy "good in all respects" claimed by Honda: this big road roadster appeared in 2006 (read our) could illustrate on its own this insatiable thirst for efficiency commonly attributed to Japanese culture !

Polite, diligent and faithful, the CBF 1000 has nothing of the noisy sensationalism of Italian production, the panache of an Englishwoman or the chrome exuberance of an American custom. Her credo is to achieve a pragmatic large gap between road cars sometimes accused of elitism and flashy and efficient roadsters, but whose exclusivity and lack of practicality end up boring on a daily basis..

Choice of reason par excellence, the Honda compiles (almost) all the advantages of a GT with the simplicity and the price of a big roadster. Result: despite a versatile physique and a driving behavior whose excess of good manners would become almost annoying, the CBF1000 achieved an exemplary career – especially in Germany – and seduced a significant propensity of bikers attracted by its multiple talents..

As much to say it bluntly: the 2010 vintage of the CBF1000F plays – with a few notes close – exactly the same score! Seen from the side, the novelty has very few aesthetic differences with the old one and it is hardly if we notice the passage from a double exhaust to a 4-in-1, the pretty color black engine (gray previously) and the more incisive profile of the semi-fairing.

Much more visible, however, the redesign of the front and rear parts did not go unnoticed: by taking the forms of the front headlights of the CBR600RR and those of the diode light of the CB1000R, the CF1000 model 2010 has significantly sharpened its lines to increase a capital seduction so far little developed.

Aesthetically more sporty, the large road roadster of the winged brand also trades the steel of its old chassis against aluminum. It also adopts a half-fairing now covering the sides of the radiator and accommodating larger indicators where the position lights migrate..

Versatile and ergonomic, the CBF1000F retains its various possible adjustments to the position of the handlebars, a central stand, a trunk large enough to accommodate a U-lock, a pair of winter gloves and rain pants, numerous hooks for lashing, an adjustable screen (without tools) in four positions on 120 mm of travel (40 mm previously) and an accessible seat (795 mm) adjustable in three positions (more or less 15 mm).

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