this is the honda cb650r it's a naked middleweight neo sports cafe racer and in this video we're
going to do a complete and thorough review this bike is aimed at the young urban rider but it'd
be equally at home on the windy country roads or indeed the motorway now this honda has 93.4 brake
horsepower and that comes in at a peak of 12 000 rpm which is absolutely phenomenal and the torque
is 64 newton meters and that's 8500 rpm but this will pull very very nicely from as low as 2000 rpm
very smoothly so you can ride this around the town and the city very easily and if you change gear at
say four five six thousand rpm it's still a very swift motorcycle but if you open it up
and get those revs to build it absolutely flies and this is a very very fast motorcycle indeed
the incredible thing about this bike is that you can get it restricted
on your a2 license with a map that you could get done at your local dealer
and this will bring it down to the 35 kilowatts which is 47 horsepower
and what that means is that you can ride that at 19 years old for two years and then when
you get to 21 if you wanted to keep the bike you can then de-restrict it and get the full
horsepower and it's completely different animal when you've got that full full amount of power
it has the assist stroke slipper clutch on this which means you get a lighter pull on
the clutch lever but what it also means is it helps you with the gear changes
but on deceleration if you're decelerating hard say coming into a corner it stops that rear wheel
locking up which is a really good safety feature which means you can attack the corners much harder
it's got the 41 millimeter upside down shower forks and they're actually really good on the
bumps and at the rear you've got an adjustable monoshock now the rake on this is 25.5 degrees
and that's the angle of the forks or the headstock and the trail is 101 millimeters which is sort of
that long which basically you can look this up but um that means it's got sharp handling and uh
it's sort of built for the corners and it's a very nimble bike in the corners that you can carve up
the corners and basically it will go round corners as fast as you want and the limitation is you the
ride and not the bike it's got 17-inch wheels um which is exactly the same as the fire blade
and this is basically like a baby fireblade now the front brakes it's got dual discs 310
millimeters and a 240 single disc at the rear and the stopping power on this bike is phenomenal
it's got a four into one exhaust and it's quite short which is kind of in line with
your ear so as a rider you get a nice you get to hear the engine sound pretty well
but um it's not majorly loud from the outside
because obviously it's designed to be an urban bike so you don't want to annoy all your neighbors
um but if it was my bike i'd probably put an akapovic exhaust on there or something like that
now it's got a 15.4 litre fuel tank a nice design actually i like the shape of it that gives you a
range of about 300 kilometers that would be doing 57.7 miles per gallon official figures
but depends how hard you ride it of course which is 12.7 miles per liter which is a pretty good
mileage for such a powerful and swift motorcycle it's got 810 millimeter seat height
and the riding position is actually really nice even for someone of my height i'm six
foot just under six foot two um you're you're just six foot three and it doesn't feel too small
it's quite a nice nice overall riding position and the ideal height for this bike probably
about five foot ten as with most bikes these days um and sort of the further away you get
from that um it's up to you really whether you decide if you're six foot five whether it's too
small for you if you're five foot three whether it's too big for you it's sort of your choice
now the engine on this is silky smooth it's so nice and as i said before as you build up the
revs and it will rev way over a bit over 12 000 rpm um but all the way through it's it's seems
to be fairly much vibration free so it's a very nice feel to the engine and uh the power pulls
like a train from nothing right the way through so excellent engine this bike weighs 202 kilos
and for forcing in the motorcycle that's pretty good and um it's really well balanced and when
you're sitting on it it really doesn't feel heavy at all because it's very very light so they've
done that very well now the handling on this is ever so good it's very nimble it corners very well
in the town and the city in and out of traffic uh it steers very well the turning circle lock
to lock isn't too good to be honest so if you're sort of going the wrong way say down the street or
a country lane you cannot quite make a single turn to turn around you have to do a bit of a shunt
this comes in black red silver and blue i think it looks awesome in black because it
looks really stealthy and it only costs 7 199 pounds which is incredible that's a hell of a
lot of bike for your money um if you compare it to different competitors it's really well priced
uh if you get your key put it in here and turn it you can take the rear seat off and underneath
the seat you've got your manual and there's a little tiny bit of space there to store a few
small things and there's a little tool kit that comes with the bike
so this bike comes with heated grips you've got the button on the grip there
and that's really going to come in handy in the winter if you've ever ridden in the winter
with normal grips it's really um you can't feel your hands after about 10 minutes so that's going
to be a really nice feature they got led lights front and rear and these are really really light
up the road and they sort of give a little bit of a blue tint to them and one of the first things
i noticed when looking at the front of this bike was how good that front light looks so it's nice
so you've got a nice digital display on this bike and it'll tell you what gear in there
your rev counter how much fuel you've got miles per gallon the time miles per hour
how many miles you've done so it tells you a lot and obviously you've got your warning
lights there which will go out when you're riding unless of course you've got a problem
with the bike my father can't see the rev counter because he's too old and he can't see so that's
why it's aimed at younger riders who'd be able to see it um he'd prefer an analog thing but
i quite like i quite like it now the view in the mirrors on this is very good um a lot of
bikes we often complain about the mirrors as you can't always see behind you but on this despite
being tall the rear visibility is very good so you can see most of the road behind you
so as you notice it's got a 650 cc inline four um which is a stressed
member of the chassis like many bikes these days the chassis sort of ends here and then
the engine is part of it and then it goes on to back here
and it's also got a big radius at the front and these these two air intakes either side
now before we got this bike every time you ride a new motorbike or anything in life you you come
with your previous experiences and recently as i've been riding sort of cruises and what have you
and for my age kind of that's the sort of bike i want and i'm not particularly a sports bike
kind of rider so i thought i don't know whether i like this bike but within a few
yards of getting on it and riding because it sounds lovely when you start it up and off i went
last year you thought no actually quite light it's quite a nice ride so going through the town um it
was an enjoyable ride and when i got out onto the open road and could overtake the cars and get up
to the national speed limit and very quickly too um i actually very much enjoyed it so it's a it's
a really nice bike it's not aimed at people of my age but of course you can ride at any age
but on the whole i thought it was a very nice bike and i'd be happy to have it
as i said but i wouldn't i personally wouldn't buy one because i'm not a sports bike rider but
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so our verdict on the cb 650 r is it's a very impressive motorcycle um it's a superb bike
for commuting for around the town very good on the country lanes very good in the corners accelerates
like a rocket it's absolutely fabulous so you can't fault this bike it's a wonderful machine
and at the price it's uh for sale at in the uk and we put put at the end the price in the us as well
so the specifications will be at the end fabulous motorcycle highly recommended big thumbs up
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