I’m back on a 400cc Japanese Domestic Market machine this issue and one which may look very familiar to many of us.
Yes, we’re back in Surrey with JDM lover Dave Jupp. He is an arch proponent of these machines, bikes that, sadly, we were often denied, unless imported by the container load by grey importers, such as BAT Motorcycles, Pocket Rockets and the like.
This month it’s the turn of the Honda CBR400R Aero which many would claim was the top 400 offering from Honda at the time. Whereas the CB-1 and CB400 SuperFour we’ve covered previously were, arguably, multi-purpose machines aimed at covering more than one base, the Aero is a totally different tureen of aquatic fauna. The CBR400R is all about speed, or at least the allusion thereof, and is dressed in