Honda H’Ness CB350 Cafe Racer Reveals Up At A Seller Assembly In India

Ever since its introduction in October, 2020, the Honda H’Ness CB350 has proved to be fairly in style in its house market of India. Nonetheless, one factor that motorbike fans all over the world appear to have in frequent is that, it doesn’t matter what we have already got accessible to us, we at all times hope for extra.  

Maybe that’s why, virtually as quickly because the H’Ness CB350 got here out, there have been already rumors of a café racer model on its manner. Now, as a result of hindsight is 20/20, we in fact know that the subsequent variant of the CB350 to be launched was a scrambler (formally referred to as the RS) in February, 2021. If you happen to’re conserving depend at house, that’s two CB350 variants launched in below six months. 

Quick-forward to February, 2023, and up till now, there’s been not a lot else apart from wishful pondering. That’s, in fact, till a current Honda sellers’ assembly came about in India, and somebody there took some pictures of an upcoming mannequin that’s set to launch in India someday later in 2023. Behold, it’s the long-awaited Honda CB350 Café Racer! 

Indian automobile and motorbike publication Rushlane received their fingers on a number of pictures of this bike on the sellers’ assembly, shot from a number of angles (and you’ll check out all of them on the hyperlink in our Sources). Whereas the powertrain is basically anticipated to stay the identical, full particulars are anticipated to be accessible someday in March, 2023 when the official launch of this machine is predicted to occur. 

Essentially the most readily obvious visible adjustments are a fairly fetching bubble cowl up across the headlight, full with an abbreviated and well-rounded windscreen. The a part of the cowl that surrounds the headlight is color-matched to the bike that it’s on within the picture. There’s additionally a contrasting brown single-seater saddle with what seems to be a little bit of ornamental stitching to set it off. (It could be a diamond sample, but it surely’s tough to inform for positive from these pictures.) There’s additionally a sporty twin white stripe on the tank, which flows down below the Honda badge.  

Instead of the two-up saddle that was discovered on the non-café-racer H’Ness CB350, there’s now a little bit rounded tail piece that’s additionally color-matched with the tank, aspect covers, and cowl to offer it that basic café racer silhouette. The inventory spherical chrome mirrors discovered on all of the CB350s to date work equally as properly for this software, so Honda India seemingly had no want to alter them. 

We sit up for studying extra in regards to the newest member of the CB350 household as soon as it’s formally revealed. Will this one make it exterior of India, maybe at the least to Japan (if not elsewhere on the planet)? Solely time will inform.