CB650R

One of the most rider-friendly aspects of the whole Neo-Sports Café design is how you sit on the CB650R. You’re ready for aggressive riding, but you’re still comfortable. You can see what’s going on around you and enjoy longer rides with little fatigue.

The front suspension showcases some leading-edge technology. The 41mm fork is equipped with Showa’s Separate Function Fork (SFF) which offers reduced weight, superior rigidity, and excellent overall performance. The aluminium lower triple clamp completes the picture.

A bike’s handlebar makes a huge difference in how you relate to your machine. We moved the CB650R’s bar forward and changed the bend in the bar too. Plus, using a premium, tapered-section swaged bar gives you better front-end feedback.

The twin-spar frame incorporates pivot plates, engine hangers, seat rails, and other components that all reduce weight. It’s light, strong, and provides the basis for the CB650R’s stellar handling.

Featuring huge 310mm discs, the CB650R also comes with radial-mounted four-piston callipers. The result is premium sportbike stopping power that’s linear and easy to modulate. A 240mm hydraulic disc at the rear complements the twin front discs for plenty of stopping power. Two-channel ABS is standard.

The assist slipper clutch lightens clutch operation and that reduces rear-wheel hop during rapid downshifts.

It sounds like a mouthful, but it just means that the CB650R has some awesome lines, and that it just flat out looks right.

The CB650R uses LED headlight, tail light and indicators. The bezel around the headlight is finished in black, emphasizing a sharper image. This LED headlight is both brighter and smaller than a conventional design and contributes in a big way to the CB650R’s sense of style.

The CB650R’s dual-layer candy paint is applied with a Nano pigment clear coat on top of a base coat. Aluminium flakes in the base coat give this paint a shimmering look—check it out for yourself and you’ll be hooked.

This bike looks unique, because it is. The Neo Sports Café design combines elements from pure sportbikes and sport naked bikes. Sometimes less is more and the CB650R makes a bold styling statement wherever you ride it.

Based off our CB1000R, the CB650R’s LCD screen features a digital speedometer and tachometer, plus a clock, odometer, trip meter, real-time and average fuel consumption meters, and illuminated engine diagnostic indicators.

The aluminium wheels feature “Y”-shaped spokes that help reduce unsprung weight. The light hoops have a greater influence on handling than the numbers alone suggest.

A bike as versatile as the CB650R needs plenty of range, and the 15.4 Litre fuel tank provides just that.

Engines like this are what Honda does best. The 649cc, DOHC 16-valve engine offers a smooth, linear torque delivery that builds strongly as revs rise and sounds great in the process. You’ll get ample low- to midrange torque, plus plenty of power through the entire rev range. The CB650R is also learner approved, making it an ideal choice for a first time rider.

With Honda Selectable Torque Control System (HSTC) the CB650R offers you peace of mind during aggressive riding conditions. The system adjusts engine power to optimize torque at the rear wheel, reducing rear-wheel slip. You can also turn it on or turn it off with a handlebar-mounted switch.

Power, style and an unmistakable growl—you get all three with the four-into-one exhaust system on the CB650R. The CB650R features a twin-duct intake design, engineered to ram cool, dense air into the airbox, increasing horsepower. Mufflers need to accomplish four things: They need to quiet the engine without robbing power, they need to help tune engine output, they need to sound great, and they’re a huge style element on any bike. The CB650R’s exhaust knocks it out of the park on all counts, and sounds like only an inline four can.

Smooth, nearly seamless shifts and gear ratios matched to the way you want to ride: those are two of the characteristics that make this Honda so much fun to ride.