Actually, when you think about it, Honda, for it is they, have never been afraid to be quirky, have they? The CB750 was the first real across-the-frame four in 1969; the CBX1000 the first commercially-available six in 1982 (although Benelli’d been doing their Sei since 1972); the CX500 the first water-cooled middleweight transverse veet-win; the rare NR750 the first road-going oval piston engine; the DCT, in 2010, the first automatic gearbox (excluding the obscure Aprilia Man’s CVT) outside scooters (although they had played around, fairly unsuccessfully, with the concept in the ‘70s, too); the list goes on.
The bike you’re looking at here, the X-ADV 750, is another MoCo (that’s Honda, not Harley, obviously) offering that sounds incredibly oddball, but actually really works. The concept, that of a 750cc, off-road-styled,…
