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WORLD<br />
LAUNCH<br />
HONDA AFRICA TWIN<br />
By Clive Strugnell pics supplied by Honda.<br />
RESURRECTION!<br />
The all new Honda Africa Twin<br />
“The underlying geometry, the choice<br />
of suspension, the riding position and<br />
even the texture of the handgrips has<br />
been honed by a team of people who<br />
really know what they are doing. There<br />
are no compromises on this bike. The<br />
initial goal was to make the successor<br />
of the original Africa Twin the best<br />
Adventure bike on the road.”<br />
Every now and then a particular motorcycle becomes<br />
an icon, often highly sought after long after production<br />
has stopped. So many factors contribute to this, and it’s<br />
very seldom that the iconic status was planned by the<br />
manufacturer in any way. In fact most times the exact<br />
opposite happens, the manufacturer introduces a bike<br />
planned right from the beginning to be something special,<br />
and in the end it turns out to be nothing of the sort.<br />
The number of really iconic Japanese bikes is<br />
actually pretty small considering the hundreds of<br />
different models they have produced since the early<br />
sixties. Honda in particular have some very impressive<br />
milestones, most notably the mighty four cylinder<br />
CB750, introduced in 1969. It was the bike that<br />
changed the face of motorcycling forever. Who knows<br />
what expectations the men at Honda had at the time….<br />
DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016 43<br />
<strong>1601</strong> <strong>DT</strong> Africa Twin.indd 43 2015/12/16 9:41 AM
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