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Honda's About To Call It A Day On This Cool Naked Bike the US Never Got

Modern motorcycle technology is undeniably impressive. And yet, there will always be riders who long for a more analog aesthetic. Sometimes instead of everyone's increasingly large TFT displays; sometimes alongside of (and even adapted to) those same displays.

But what if you just want an old-school, no-frills kind of naked bike? And what if you like 'em big, both in terms of physical size and in terms of displacement?

As I write this in February of 2025, Honda's got you, provided you live in one of the many markets where it sells the CB1300 Super Four and/or Bol d'Or. Throughout the 33 years since Project Big 1 was first introduced, it's never officially been sold in the US (although some gray markets imports have made it through on occasion). 

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