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Honda Six50 Concept

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The Honda Six50 concept continues where the Honda CB4 concept left-off in exploring what other machines could be created from the Honda CBR650F platform. Instead of a café racer though, the Honda Six50 is more of a modern-take on the popular scrambler genre.
To that vein, it works well with the Honda CB4 concept, as both machines attempt to tackle popular hipster tropes currently in the two-wheeled space, but with decisively modern and unique approaches.

Fitted with a bashplate, barkbusters and rudimentary crash bars as well as serious offroad tires, the Six50 makes a fairly clear promise of dirt squirting capability. To that end, the swingarm is double-sided for extra strength, the tires are spoked and the headlight has a touch of "rally" about it. But the 4-cylinder engine won't be ideal on the trails, plus the bike looks quite heavy and expensive details like the GP-style pipe, billet brake reservoir, machined triple clamps and road-spec upside down forks give it away for what it is: more of a fashion statement, not unlike Ducati's Scrambler bikes.  

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