CAM-CHAIN
Perennial Honda bogey – they need to be correctly adjusted but can still wear due to tensioner issues – the tensioners were never the best.
RUNNING GEAR
Hard to find, so check if anything is missing.
ANTI-DIVE SYSTEM
Arguably more trouble than it’s worth, many owners get shot of it.
ALTERNATOR
Poor charging may be due to serious brush wear.
You might very well consider this month’s offering as another forgotten inline four – it was designed, built and sold alongside its equally overlooked CBX750 stablemate.
Both machines were very much Honda’s ‘insurance policies’ in case their various radical V4s of the period bombed. The two machines were also there to reassure the Honda faithful that the firm hadn’t totally walked away from the engine
