Honda TRANSALP XL600-650V (1987-2002) [7/291] Introduction
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Honda TRANSALP XL600-650V (1987-2002) [7/291] Introduction

Honda TRANSALP XL600-650V (1987-2002) [7/291] Introduction

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0 6 Introduction Carl Fogarty in action at the Suzuka 8 Hour on the RC45 An early CB750 Four point of going to the Isle of Man TT then the most important race in the GP calendar He realised that no matter how advanced his products were only racing success would convince overseas markets for whom Made in Japan still meant cheap and nasty It took five years from Soichiro Honda s first visit to the Island before his bikes were ready for the TT In 1959 the factory entered five riders in the 125 class They did not have a massive impact on the event being benevolently regarded as a curiosity but sixth seventh and eighth were good enough for the team prize The bikes were off the pace but they were well engineered and very reliable The TT was the only time the West saw the Hondas in 59 but they came back for more the following year with the first of a generation of bikes which shaped the future of motorcycling the double overhead cam four cylinder 250 It was fast and reliable it revved to 14 000 rpm but didn t handle anywhere near as well as the opposition However Honda had now signed up non Japanese riders to lead their challenge The first win didn t come until 1962 Aussie Tom Phillis in the Spanish 125 GP and was followed up with a world shaking perfor mance at the TT Twenty one year old Mike Hailwood won both 125 and 250 cc TTs and Hondas filled the top five positions in both races Soichiro Honda s master plan was starting to come to fruition Hailwood and Honda won the 1961 250 cc World Championship Next year Honda won three titles The other Japanese factories fought back and inspired Honda to produce some of the most fascinating racers ever seen the awesome six cylinder 250 the five cylinder 125 and the 500 four with which the immortal Hailwood battled Agostini and the MV Agusta When Honda pulled out of racing in 67 they had won sixteen rider s titles eighteen manufacturer s titles and 137 GPs including 18 TTs and introduced the concept of the modern works team to motorcycle racing Sales success followed racing victory as Soichiro Honda had predicted but only because the products advanced as rapidly as the racing machinery The Hondas that came to Britain in the early 60s were incredibly sophisticated They had overhead cams where the British bikes had pushrods they had electric starters when the Brits relied on the kickstart they had 12V electrics when even the biggest British bike used a 6V system There seemed no end to the technical wizardry It wasn t that the technology itself was so amazing but just like that first E type it was the fact that Honda could mass produce it more reliably than the lower tech competition that was so astonishing When in 1968 the first four cylinder CB750 road bike arrived the world of motorcycling changed for ever they even had to invent a new word for it Superbike Honda raced again with the CB750 at Daytona and won the

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