US-based riders are painfully familiar with this routine by now: Europe gets a really cool bike, everybody online starts obsessing over it, and then US riders spend the next year asking dealers, forums, and random sales reps if the bike’s finally coming stateside. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn’t.
Either way, the waiting game has become part of the sport touring experience itself, and Honda’s new CB1000GT is the latest machine dangling just out of reach.