this is the honda rebel and in this video we're going to do a full review
this is a 471 cc two-cylinder motorcycle which you can ride on your a2 license
one of the first things i noticed about this bike was how cool it looks um it's similar
in styling to a harley davidson iron obviously it's quite different but it's that sort of bike
and if you're looking for an a2 license bike you wouldn't have to restrict this whereas you would
have to restrict the iron so that's one less thing that you'd have to do so there you go i really
like the look of this bike it's got big fat tyres it's all blacked out it comes in red as well but
it looks every bit the part and i tell you what if you turned up on this it would be pretty cool
so we're going to get on to how the bike rides and feels in a minute but just to give you some
facts and figures it's got an 11.2 liter fuel tank which it does 27 miles no kilometers per liter and
76 miles per gallon which is really really good and to compare that to the harley-davidson iron
that does about 49 miles per gallon so this is quite a bit more than that and you'll get a range
of about 187 miles obviously it depends on how hard you ride it which also is 302.4 kilometers
now it has 45.5 brake horsepower at eight and a half thousand rpm and that's 34 kilowatts
and the torque is 43.3 newton meters at 6000 rpm so you need to rev this bike to get the
best out of it but saying that it's a brilliant engine it's so good because even at very low rpm
if you just open up the throttle so you're in sixth gear and you're going really slowly
it doesn't complain or judder or anything it just pulls until it's ready
so it's a very good engine um if you do compare like we say to the harley iron that's got more
torque at lower rpm so that's sort of a bite where you can get more out of it at a lower rpm
and change gear early and it still goes this you need to rev it more to get the best of it
so this bike's got a two into one exhaust which sounds pretty decent for a standard
exhaust it's got nice um pops on the overrun but of course it has to comply with the
regulations so it's not going to be loud if you want a loud exhaust i'm sure there's some
out there and i think this engine would sound pretty good with something a bit louder on it
it's also got a assist slipper clutch which of course assists you in the changing of gears
and also when you're downshifting it stops that back wheel locking up
so that's good now it's got a wheelbase of uh 1490 millimeters so it's not a big bike um the
rake that's the angle of the fork is actually the headstock but it's basically the angle the
forks come out at is 28 degrees and the trail you need to look at that it's complicated but
basically that's the steering geometry the trail is 110 degrees so the two measurements combined
with a shortish wheelbase mean it's a very agile and nimble bike and it wants to turn quite easily
this bike's got a seat height of 690 millimeters and the old man is definitely too big for this
it looks okay on me but ideally it's for someone who's about five foot six to five for eight i'm
six foot one i'm sure it probably looks too small for me it is quite a small bike but either way
it's still easy to ride and it's perfectly capable of if you are taller getting on it but it is um
quite a small bike this bike only weighs 191 kilos and it does feel really light um compared to that
to an iron we could compare it to that because they're quite similar um that weighs 256 kilos
so you do notice that this is quite a bit lighter and with this it's got slightly less horsepower
than the iron but i'd say it's probably just as quick because of the power to weight ratio
so although you have to rev it a bit more to get the power out of it it's probably just as
quick if not maybe a little bit quicker than the iron now sticking with the iron comparison
this has got less torque so this has got 43.3 newton meters of torque and that comes in at
6000 rpm whereas with the iron it's got 68 newton meters of torque and that comes in at 4750 rpm
so you do notice that on the iron the um torque comes in much lower and you do feel that pulling
um whereas this you do have to keep it on song to keep that to keep the rpms up to keep it going
but i mean this is a perfect bike for someone who's maybe new to bikes and it's just so easy
to ride and it's just brilliant for that now it's got 16 inch rims a single disc brake at the rear
and at the front and the stopping power is good but it's not amazing but it's perfectly adequate
for the sort of bike it is and the speed you'd be going on so no problems with the brakes at all
you've got a six-speed gearbox with this bike and you can't go wrong with honda gearboxes or engines
they're just so good and their manufacturing is is absolutely incredible and that gearbox is
really really smooth it's so so slick to put in gear and up and down the gears it just feels so
smooth
now this rebel is really easy to ride and lovely to ride it's a good fun motorcycle it's very good
in the town and in the traffic because it's narrow and it's very agile so you can get in and out of
cars if you're lane splitting the handlebars are not very wide so you can get down between the cars
without bashing into anybody so it's a very good town bike to be great for commuting but equally
out in the countryside it's nice on the lanes and very good at 70 miles an hour it goes along easily
and effortlessly so it will do everything you need it to do and you've got nothing to worry about
the rebel is ready to have a pillion on it from standard you've got passenger foot pegs and you've
got this nice little pillion pack you can take that off just literally one bolt and you can pick
that off but it doesn't spoil the styling of the bike it's quite subtle but if you did want to ride
it solo you could easily take that off you could probably unbolt this bit here but you wouldn't
want to unbolt the whole thing off because it doubles as the exhaust bracket but on the other
side you could take that completely off if you didn't want to have anyone on the back but it
doesn't really spoil the styling so it's probably not worth the effort now because i'm too tall for
this bite i'm six foot three um because my legs at this angle i'm finally have to really pull up my
toe to not be on the break so i tend to have to ride it with my toes out but the other thing is
this cover here on this side it's not the same on the other side it gets in the way slightly of
my ankle nothing that you need to worry about but it is there but that's just a small thing nothing
serious and this has a keyed ignition i personally prefer keyless but you prefer having a key i think
it's probably an age thing i can't accept the new technology but that's uh that's just the thing
you got really nice looking headlights on this bike um we don't know how good they
are in the dark we haven't tested them but i'm assuming they'll be pretty good but just
styling wise they look really nice now the ally wheels actually really suit this bike they're
definitely going with the styling and it's also chain driven which is quite desirable these days
this bike would be perfect for your a2 license and you don't have to restrict it it's already under
the 47 horsepower requirements for the a2 license and it's easy to ride at low rpm so if you're
a beginner rider and you don't want to rev rev it fully if you ride it at low rpms it will still
put it on nicely but if you do want to rev it up rub it up a bit more and get more out of it
then it's it's perfectly good and you do notice the performance at the higher
rpms
now one thing i noticed about this bike it's all blacked out but this cover down here so
many bikes nowadays have a sort of brown color for some unknown reason no matter what the color the
bike is this bit is brown but on this it's black and it looks right so i don't know why this trend
has come from for these weird brown covers but um pleased that this bike hasn't got it the speedo on
this bike is nice and minimalistic um it's all digital so you've got your miles per hour tells
you the time you can do a trip a trip um counter or whatever they call it um it tells you how much
fuel you've got and what gear you're in but the one thing it doesn't tell you is your rpm um it's
not really a big problem and it doesn't tell you that but it'd be nice to know when they're
nearing the red line so that you don't over rev the engine but it's not the end of the world i
love how simple this bike is you've got a cable clutch cable throttle so there's no fly by wire
which is lovely you know it's how simple how it should be and there's also no modes on this bike
so there's nothing to you know when you've got it in a standard driving mode and then
you put it into a sport mode it scares you because you're not used to it but you don't
have to worry about that with this bike because it's all there whenever you want it
so uh to summarize this honda rebel
for an a2 license bike there's a lot to choose from but there's a lot of really ugly a2 licensed
bikes out there and there's not very many that look as cool as this so to be honest with you
i would say this is something that you really want to get if you want a cool looking bike
whether you're in the town or the countryside it's equally at home and it rides beautifully it's got
an incredible engine an incredible gearbox it's very well engineered so you can't go wrong with a
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