Australian Road Rider

MILE EATER!

Honda’s big sports tourer, the ST1100 (known as the Pan European in other markets), first found its way Down Under in 1990, gaining slow showroom response at a new price of $13,990. The Australian bike marketplace has always viewed entirely new models with a little suspicion and the ST was no exception. After all, here was a bike that was falling smack bang into a sportsbike-mad retail atmosphere, weighing in at 288kg and using a longitudinally mounted V4 powerplant. Big and different.

It wasn’t a pretty motorcycle, either,

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