What is it?
Built from 1988 until 1992, this Honda was a fabulous answer for anyone wanting a small, lightweight, yet punchy naked bike with modern looks. A Honda what? Well, if you were in Japan, this model was called the Honda Bros: the Product One was the 650 (NT650) and Product Two applied to the 400 (NT400) model. However, if you were in the United States of America, it was the Honda Hawk GT 650 – there was no 400. And in the UK, well, we weren’t deemed worthy enough to have either. The all-important Honda code was RC31 for the 650 and NC25 for the 400. And no one knows where the Bros name came from. Got all that?
Behind the confusing names and codes was rather an interesting bike that was not very – Honda. It wore a modern, aluminium beam frame that was of the time – look at the two-stroke Honda
