Honda CB500 twin

I've went that look before.

I've had a CB500, had that look.

Yep.

Yes, it did.

We've got pre-injection 600s, which is for slightly older 600s, typically from the 90s.

We've got the CB500s, which is usually a cracking race.

It's pretty successful all over the place nowadays because it's such an entry-level class.

You can get a bike and run it without spending a fortune.

yeah you know

like i can remember testing zx9s that were reliable you had a fuel tap you know you'd be like oh yeah what's going wrong? And then you'd be fiddling for a fuel tap, turn the fuel tap, you know, and plug, you know, like KR1S and RGV250s, RS Aprilia, you know, all that two-stroke era, you had to pre-mix and, you know, they weren't the most reliable, but where now you can go buy a KTM 390 single or a CB500, whatever, and just nail the thing.

Yeah.

All day, every day.

Like on some models, you don't have a clutch.

But I think sometimes it also depends on the market.

If you take Honda's new e-clutch CB500, if it's still called the CB.

I think so, yeah, yeah.

I think at the time it was also just an easy way to customize your bike.

I mean, yeah, the relative, like, a, you get a CB500.

We spoke about this in the last one.

Yeah.

it a close level field or playing field for everybody

because it's like that CB500 Cup there that's the same thing yeah that's brilliant it's really close racing I suppose and it's cheap

and is that a championship that goes The whole year round or just a couple of

rounds? I think there's six tracks to race at, but they do 12 rounds.

Honda has a CBR500R4.

That's a four-cylinder 500, as well as a naked CB500 Super 4.

Sounds exciting.

Sounds super.