Honda CB750

Honda has followed a safe approach while designing the CB750 Hornet, which looks aggressive but a bit old-school too. It looks inspired by the CB roadsters from Honda from the past with angular body panels all around. However, despite having angular-styled panels, the CB750 lacks the boldness bit for a motorcycle belonging to its segment and price. 

At the front, the Honda CB750 Hornet has a rakish front cowl, which gets aggressive-looking creases around the raked all-LED headlamp. This dual-tone cowl has LED turn indicators attached to its upper corners, while missing out on a proper cowl at the top of it, ahead of the instrument console. The upper halves of the front forks and exposed trellis frame on the side are finished in a theme of red in the White and Black colour schemes and silver in the Yellow colour scheme. 

Speaking of the side profile, the Honda CB750 Hornet has a sporty-looking fuel tank with pointy triangular fuel tank extensions on the side that make the side profile look muscular. The engine and alloy wheels of the CB750 Hornet feature a blacked-out theme, while the exhaust pipe, which misses out on underbody protection below the engine, has a satin silver theme for the upper shield and tip.

The tail section of the Honda CB750 Hornet also looks muscular with the dual-tone rear panels below the split seat arrangement that flows towards the compact LED tail lamp. Coming to the rider’s cockpit of the Honda CB750 Hornet, there is a modern-looking 5-inch full-TFT instrument console that sits within a large panel with tapered edges all around. Packing in all essentials like a speedometer, tachometer, fuel gauge, odometer, trip meters, gear indicator, and clock, this instrument console has multiple display modes as per the riding mode selected. 

The Honda CB750 Hornet matches the aggression of its design in the way it handles too, with the suspension setup tuned for a sporty riding experience. This naked roadster gets a 41mm separate functioning upside-down telescopic fork with 130mm travel at the front and a pro-link swingarm with a mono-shock that has 150mm travel at the rear. The motorcycle has 10-spoke black alloy wheels with a 120/70 ZR17 tyre at the front and a 160/60 ZR17 tyre at the rear. For braking, this naked roadster has dual 296mm disc brakes at the front and a single 240mm disc brake at the rear. 

With the CB750 Hornet, Honda has followed its European rivals by equipping it with state-of-the-art riding aids and electronics. Apart from having essentials like dual-channel ABS, traction control and an assist and slipper clutch, the Honda CB750 Hornet also has four riding modes – Standard, Sport, Rain and Custom, wheelie control and adjustable engine braking.

While Honda might have followed a safe approach with the design of the CB750 Hornet, which looks a bit conventional, it still has some aggression in the way it looks. And that sense of aggression amplifies in the way it performs and handles, without much intimidation.