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Part #                Model                                                                                    Year                        Type of windshield

 11002           RS 125                                                                                 1988                                  Original / Stock
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11001            RS 125                                                                             1989-1990                            Original / Stock
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11000           RS 125                                                                             1995-1996                                          Racing
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11000            RS 125                                                                             1995-1996                            Original / Stock
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11100           RS 125 B-Kit                                                                        1997                                  Original / Stock
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11100           RS 125 B-Kit                                                                        1997                                               Racing
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11101           RS 125 A-Kit                                                                        1998                                  Original / Stock
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11101            RS 125 A-kit                                                                        1998                                               Racing
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11102           RS 125 A-Kit                                                                        1999                                               Racing
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11200           RS 125                                                                             1998-1999                                          Racing
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11300           RS 125 Special                                                                     1999                                              Racing
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11400           RS 125                                                                             2000-2001                                          Racing
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11400            RS 125                                                                            2000-2001                             Original / Stock
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11500           RS 125 Wanner                                                                   2002                                               Racing
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11501           RS 125 Wanner                                                                   2003                                               Racing
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11502           RS 125 Wanner (long / + 4cm)                                        2003-2004                                          Racing
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11503               RS 125                                                                              2004-2006                                          Racing
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11503           RS 125                                                                              2004-2006                            Original / Stock
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11504          RS 125                                                                                  2008                                  Original / Stock
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11504          RS 125                                                                                  2008                                               Racing
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11600          NSR 125R-R                                                                     1993-1994                                          Racing
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11600           NSR 125R                                                                         1995-2002                                         Racing
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11700          CBR 250RR                                                                       1990-1994                                         Racing
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11706          RS 250                                                                                   1986                                 Original / Stock
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11801          RS 250                                                                                   1987                                 Original / Stock
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11701          RS 250                                                                                   1989                                 Original / Stock
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11707               RS 250R                                                                                1990                                 Original / Stock
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11702           RS 250 Honda Team Track-Bike                                           1990                                 Original /Stock
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11708          RS 250 SPL                                                                           1992                                 Original / Stock
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11703          RS 250                                                                                   1993                                 Original / Stock
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11709          RS 250                                                                                   1994                                 Original / Stock
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11704           RS 250 Rauchenecker                                                           1994                                Original / Stock
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11705          RS 250                                                                               1996-1997                                         Racing
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11800          RS 250                                                                               1998-1999                                         Racing
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11800           RS 250                                                                               1998-1999                           Original / Stock
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11900               RS 250 Special                                                                  1998-1999                                         Racing
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12000          RS 250                                                                                2000-2001                                        Racing
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12100               TSR 250                                                                                  1999                                             Racing
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12100           TSR 250                                                                                  1999                               Original / Stock
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12200               TSR 250 AC28H                                                                 2000-2001                                        Racing
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12200          TSR 250 AC28H                                                                 2000-2001                           Original / Stock
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12300           NSR 250R-SP                                                                    1994-1996                                        Racing
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12300          NSR 250R-SP Rothmans Replica                                          1994                                             Racing
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12300           NSR 250R-SP Repsol Replica                                               1996                                             Racing
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12300           NSR 250R                                                                              1994                                             Racing
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12300          NSR 250SE                                                                       1995-1996                                         Racing
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12301          NSR 250 Racebike                                                               no year                              Original / Stock
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12310               NSR 250R MC21                                                               1990-1993                                         Racing
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12310               NSR 250SE MC21                                                             1991-1993                                         Racing
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12310               NSR 250R-SP                                                                    1990-1992                                        Racing
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12310               NSR 250R-SP Rothmans Replica                                          1992                                             Racing
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12400               CBR 400RR NC17/29                                                         1987-1993                                        Racing
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12400           CBR 400RR NC17/29                                                         1987-1993                          Original / Stock
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12500               RVF 400 NC35                                                                   1994-2000                                        Racing
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12510               NS 400R NC30                                                                       1985                                             Racing
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12510          NS 400R NC30                                                                       1985                                Original / Stock
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12510               NS 400R NC30 Rothmans Replica                                         1986                                             Racing
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12510           NS 400R NC30 Rothmans Replica                                         1986                               Original / Stock
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12401               CBR 400RR NC23                                                             1987-1993                                        Racing
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12401               CBR 400RR NC23                                                             1987-1993                           Original / Stock
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12599           VFR 400R NC24                                                                1987-1989                                        Racing
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12599               VFR 400R NC24                                                                1987-1989                           Original / Stock
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12600          VFR 400R NC30                                                                1988-1992                                         Racing
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12600           VFR 400R NC30                                                                1988-1992                           Original / Stock
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12750                RS 500                                                                                 no year                                           Racing
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12750                RS 500                                                                                 no year                              Original / Stock
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12800           NSR 500 V2                                                                         no year                                           Racing
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12700           CBR 600F PC19                                                                1989-1990                           Original / Stock
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12900           CBR 600F2 PC25                                                              1991-1994                                        Racing
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12900           CBR 600F2 PC25                                                              1991-1994                           Original / Stock
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13000           CBR 600F3 PC31                                                              1995-1998                                        Racing
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13000           CBR 600F3 PC31                                                              1995-1998                           Original / Stock
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13000            CBR 600F3 PC31 (only Race-fairing)                                1995-1998                                       Racing
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13000           CBR 600F3 PC31 (only Race-fairing)                                1995-1998                         Original / Stock
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13200                CBR 600F4 PC35                                                               1999-2000                                       Racing
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13200           CBR 600F4 PC35                                                               1999-2000                          Original / Stock
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13400            CBR 600F4i PC35                                                             2001-2006                                       Racing
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13400            CBR 600F4i PC35                                                             2001-2006                          Original / Stock
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13400             CBR 600F4i Sport PC35                                                   2001-2003                                       Racing
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13400            CBR 600F4i Sport PC35                                                   2001-2003                          Original / Stock
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13400            CBR 600F4i Rossi Replica                                                    2002                                            Racing
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13400            CBR 600F4i Rossi Replica                                                    2002                               Original / Stock
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13500            CBR 600RR PC37                                                            2003-2004                                        Racing
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13500             CBR 600RR PC37 (only Race-fairing)                             2003-2004                                        Racing
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13500            CBR 600RR PC37 (only Race-fairing)                             2003-2004                           Original / Stock
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13610            CBR 600RR PC37                                                           2005-2006                                         Racing
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13610            CBR 600RR Movistar Special                                               2006                                             Racing
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13610            CBR 600RR Lüthi Replica                                                     2006                                            Racing
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13610            CBR 600RR Track Special                                                    2006                                            Racing
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13510            CBR 600RR PC40                                                             2007-2012                                       Racing
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13510            CBR 600RR Special Edition                                                  2008                                            Racing
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13510            CBR 600RR Hannspree Ten Kate Replica                            2008                                            Racing
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13510            CBR 600RR Track Special                                                    2008                                            Racing
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13510            CBR 600RR Konica Minolta Limited Edition                          2008                                            Racing
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13510            CBR 600RR ABS                                                               2008-2009                                       Racing
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13510            CBR 600RR ABS Special Edition                                           2009                                           Racing
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13510            CBR 600RR Hutchinson TT Replica                                      2009                                            Racing
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13510            CBR 600RR Tricolour HRC                                               2010-2011                                       Racing
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13700                 VFR 750R RC30                                                                1987-1990                                       Racing
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13700             VFR 750R RC30                                                                1987-1990                         Original / Stock
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13850                 VFR 700F-G (US)                                                                   1986                                           Racing
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13850            VFR 700F-G (US)                                                                   1986                              Original / Stock
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13850                 VFR 700F2-H (US)                                                                  1987                                          Racing
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13850            VFR 700F2-H (US)                                                                  1987                             Original / Stock
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13860                  VFR 750F RC36                                                                 1986-1989                                     Racing
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13860             VFR 750F RC36                                                                 1986-1989                        Original / Stock
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13800                  VFR 750F RC36                                                                 1990-1993                                     Racing
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13800                  VFR 750F RC36                                                                 1990-1993                        Original / Stock
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13900             VFR 750F RC36                                                                 1994-1997                                     Racing
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14000                  RVF 750R RC45                                                                     1994                                          Racing
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14000             RVF 750R RC45                                                                     1994                             Original / Stock
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14100             CBR 900RR SC28                                                              1992-1993                                     Racing
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14100             CBR 900RR SC28                                                              1992-1993                        Original / Stock
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14100             CBR 900RR SC28 (race-fairing)                                        1992-1993                        Original / Stock
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14200             CBR 900RR SC33                                                              1994-1997                                     Racing
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14200             CBR 900RR SC33                                                              1994-1997                        Original / Stock
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14300             CBR 900RR SC33                                                              1998-1999                                     Racing
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14300             CBR 900RR SC33                                                              1998-1999                        Original / Stock
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14301             CBR 900RR SC44                                                               2000-2001                                    Racing
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14301             CBR 900RR SC44                                                               2000-2001                       Original / Stock
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14400             CBR 900RR SC50                                                               2002-2004                                    Racing
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14500             CBR 1000F                                                                          1993-2000                                    Racing
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14660             CBR 1000RR SC57 (Becker-Carbon GP-fairing)                2004-2007                                    Racing
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14600             CBR 1000RR SC57                                                             2004-2007                                    Racing
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14600             CBR 1000RR Repsol                                                           2005-2007                                    Racing
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14600             CBR 1000RR Isle of Man TT Special                                       2007                                        Racing
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14750             CBR 1000RR SC59                                                              2008-2011                                   Racing
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14750             CBR 1000RR Track Special                                                      2008                                       Racing
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14750             CBR 1000RR Tricolour HRC                                                2008-2010                                   Racing
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14750             CBR 1000RR Repsol                                                            2009-2011                                   Racing
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14750              CBR 1000RR TT Tribute                                                           2010                                       Racing
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14750             CBR 1000RR Casey Stoner Replica                                         2011                                       Racing
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14700                  CBR 1000RR SC57 (only Race-fairing)                                2004-2007                                  Racing
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14750                  CBR 1000RR SC59 (only Race-fairing)                                2008-2011                                  Racing
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14755                  CBR 1000RR                                                                             2012                                       Racing
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14800             VTR 1000F SC36                                                                  1997-2005                                  Racing
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14800             VTR 1000F SC36                                                                  1997-2005                     Original / Stock
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14900             VTR 1000F SC36 (only Race-fairing)                                    1997-2005                                  Racing
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15000              VTR 1000 SP1 RC51                                                             2000-2001                                 Racing
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15000             VTR 1000 SP1 RC51                                                             2000-2001                    Original / Stock
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15200              VTR 1000 SP2 RC51                                                             2002-2006                                 Racing
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15200             VTR 1000 SP2 RC51                                                             2002-2006                    Original / Stock
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15100             CB 1100R BB                                                                             1981                         Original / Stock
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15100             CB 1100R BC                                                                             1982                         Original / Stock
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15100             CB 1100R BD                                                                             1983                         Original / Stock
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15300             CBR 1100XX                                                                          1996-2007                                 Racing
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Honda Motorcycle History

Honda was founded in the late 1940s as Japan struggled to rebuild following the second World War. Company founder Soichiro Honda first began manufacturing piston rings before turning his attention to inexpensive motorcycles. Mr. Honda always had a passion for engineering, and this became evident by the wild sales success of his motorcycles in the 1960s and by competing head-to-head against the world’s best on racetracks. Today, Honda is a juggernaut, offering class-leading machines in most every category.

  • 1906 Soichiro Honda is born in Hamamatsu, Japan. His father owns a blacksmith shop that also repairs bicycles. As a young man, Honda is an apprentice in an automotive garage in Tokyo.
  • 1928 Honda returns to Hamamatsu to open his own auto repair shop. Enamored with speed, he builds his own race car.
  • 1936 Honda is injured in an auto racing accident.
  • 1937 He forms a company to manufacture piston rings. After a shaky start (owing mostly to his complete lack of formal training in metallurgy) his company becomes successful. He is a key supplier to Toyota, which starts manufacturing cars at about the same time.
  • 1946 Soichiro Honda sells his piston-ring business. Japan is struggling to regain some semblance of normalcy, after having been bombed flat at the end of WWII. Honda realizes the need for affordable transportation and begins grafting war-surplus two-stroke motors onto bicycles. (The motors had originally been intended for use on portable generators for military radios.)
  • 1948 Honda Motor Co. Ltd is incorporated. Soichiro Honda focuses on the engineering side of the business, while financial operations are controlled by Takeo Fujisawa.
  • 1949 The company produces its first real motorcycle, powered by a 98cc a two-stroke motor. When an employee sees the first one assembled and it is ridden outside the factory, he says, “It’s like a dream.” The name “Dream” was adopted for the bike, officially known as Model D.
  • 1951 Mr. Honda is infuriated by the noise, smell and fumes from the two-stroke motorbikes (including his own) that crowd Japanese city streets. In response, the company creates its first four-stroke motorcycle, the Dream E (146cc).
  • 1952 Despite the fact that he despises such “primitive” powerplants, Honda flirts with his original notion of auxiliary motors for bicycles. The Cub F (two-stroke, 50cc) clip-on motor is sold through thousands of independent bicycle shops across Japan. It is only manufactured for two years, but it introduces the “Cub” trademark, which will be popular for decades in various guises.
  • 1953 The Benly J (4-stroke, 90cc) is released. At least some of these were sold with “Benly” tank-badges, and carried the Honda name on engine cases only. The Benly series also lasted a long time, and ushered in an era of improved performance. They were immediately popular with Japan’s amateur racers.
  • 1954 Soichiro Honda shares his own dream, of success in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. He writes, “My childhood dream was to be a champion of motor racing with a machine built by myself. However, before becoming world champion, it is strongly required to establish a stable corporate structure, provided with precise production facilities and superior product design. From this point of view we have been concentrating on providing high quality products to meet Japanese domestic consumer demand and we have not had enough time to pour our efforts in motor cycle racing until now… I here avow my intention that I will participate in the TT race and I proclaim with my fellow employees that I will pour all my energy and creative powers into winning.”

Mr. Honda attended the Isle of Man races as an observer that year, paying particular attention to the German-made NSU motorcycles that dominated the 125 and 250 classes. Although it is widely believed Honda “copied” these machines, it is not true; the NSU racers were singles with bevel-drive cams–nothing like the early Honda racers.

  • 1957 The leading Italian manufacturers, including MV Agusta, Gilera, and Mondial announce that they will withdraw from World Championship racing, citing increasing costs. MV Agusta will renege on this agreement and continue racing. Honda buys one of the last Mondial race bikes. The Japanese company doesn’t copy the Italian bike, but it does use it as a source of inspiration and an example of the standard they need to reach.
  • 1958 The Super Cub (aka C100, aka CA100, aka simply “the Honda 50”) hits the market. It features a pressed-steel frame, leading-link fork, step-through design and a 50cc four-stroke motor. It is destined to be sold under various names, and will later grow to 70cc, and finally 90cc. It will become the most popular motorcycle–indeed, the most popular motor vehicle of any kind.
  • 1959 Honda enters the famed Isle of Man TT races for the first time. The company fields five machines in the 125cc “Ultra-lightweight” class. The bikes are 125cc twins, of the type raced the previous year in Japanese national competition. Naomi Tanaguchi achieves the team’s the best TT result, finishing sixth. Honda wins the manufacturer’s trophy in the class.

    • Honda opens American Honda Motor Co. in Los Angeles.

  • 1961 Honda dominates both the 125cc and 250cc classes at the TT. Mike Hailwood wins both races, with Hondas finishing 1st through 5th positions in each case. The Isle of Man Examiner newspaper says simply, “It was a devastating win for the Orient.”
  • 1963 This year, Honda focuses on F-1 car racing, and the motorcycle racing program suffers. Sales of street bikes remain strong, however: the Super Cub is awarded the French Mode Cup; Honda opens its first overseas plant in Belgium; Grey Advertising unveils the famous “You meet the nicest people on a Honda” campaign. Early the following year, Honda buys commercial time in the Academy Awards for a “nicest people” television ad featuring the Super Cub.
  • 1964 Two-stroke motors begin to dominate the smaller-displacement racing classes. In order to remain competitive in the 250cc classes, while still relying on four-stroke motors, Honda produces a six-cylinder 250, the 3RC164. This engineering marvel dazzles the racing world, but it is not enough to prevent Phil Read from winning the championship on his Yamaha ’stroker. In ’66 and ’67, however, Mike Hailwood will use the six to win the 250cc World Championship.
  • 1968 19 years after the company’s first two-wheeler rolled out of the factory, Honda produces its 10 millionth motorcycle.
  • 1969 Honda unveiled the CB750 at the Tokyo Motor Show in late ’68, but it didn’t hit the market until early ’69. It is impossible to overstate the impact this bike made, as the first modern mass-market four, and the first mass-market bike to come with a disc brake. Until well into 1970, CB750s were made with sand-cast, not die-cast engine cases. In truth, die-cast cases were lighter, stronger, and more oil tight. But it’s the sand-cast models that are prized by collectors.
  • 1970 Honda entered four riders in the Daytona 200, but only one–Dick Mann–finished. The three DNFs were completely overshadowed by Mann’s victory. It was a huge win for Honda in America. That year, the 200 grid also included all-new triples from Triumph and BSA, and the first XR750 Harley-Davidsons. Although the factory bikes are often referred to as CR750 models, the CR750 was never sold as a complete motorcycle; it was only a kit of parts to be assembled on a CB750 donor bike. The factory racers were built by Honda’s Racing Services Center (the predecessor of today’s HRC) and officially designated “CB750 Racing Type.”
  • 1972 Honda finally admits that in order to build a competitive 250cc motocrosser, the company has to make another two-stroke motor. CR250 “Elsinore” reaches the U.S. in early ’73. It is immediately the most effective production race bike in its class, and Gary Jones wins the AMA motocross championship on it in its first year.
  • 1973 Soichiro Honda retires as the company President. He remains on the Board of Directors, which grant him the honorific title ‘Supreme Advisor’ in 1983.
  • 1974 The first Gold Wing, the GL1000, is introduced at Cologne. It reaches the U.S. market in early ’75. The ’wing is the first Japanese production four-stroke to be water-cooled. It also features shaft drive and is one of the first production bikes to be fitted with a fuel pump. The pump is required because the “tank” in the normal position is actually an electronics bay and conceals the radiator overflow, while the real fuel tank is under the seat, to help keep the center of gravity low.
  • 1978 In an effort to build a competitive four-stroke motorcycle for the 500GP World Championship, Honda produces the oval-piston NR500. It was effectively a “four-cylinder V-8, with 8 connecting rods and 32 valves. It is a technological tour-de-force, but manufacturing challenges prevent it from racing until late in the ’79 season. Honda persists with the machine through the ’81 season, but even Freddie Spencer can’t manage to win on it.
  • 1981 Honda Gold Wing production moves from Japan to a new factory in Ohio.
  • 1983 Freddie Spencer wins the 500cc World Championship. For the first time, Honda wins the “blue riband” championship. (The company first won the Manufacturer’s Championship in the 500cc class in 1966.)
  • 1986 After a shaky start, the V-four “VF” series of road bikes is redeemed with the redesigned VFR750F “Interceptor”. Its gear-drive overhead cams once and for all banish cam drive and wear problems, and the model is generally acknowledged as being the “best all-’round road bike” for most of the next ten years.
  • 1987 The CBR600F “Hurricane” is Honda’s first fully-faired, four-cylinder street bike.
  • 1990 The VFR750R (aka RC30) finally arrives in the U.S., three years after it is first sold in Japan. It’s a true homologation special, and a genuine race bike for the street, selling for twice the price of a stock Interceptor.
  • 1991 The company mourns the death of Soichiro Honda.
  • 1992 200 units of the legendary NR (aka NR 750) are produced. This is a street-legal version of the ill-fated NR500 Grand Prix racer, which sells for a breathtaking $60,000. It’s loaded with ahead-of-its-time features including carbon-fiber bodywork, a digital dash, underseat exhaust, a single-sided swingarm, and fuel injection. In spite of lavish use of carbon and light alloy, it weighs nearly 500 pounds, and most of the people who have ridden it (still a small statistical sample!) are underwhelmed.
  • 1993 The CBR900RR stuns the sportbike world. Designed by Tadao Baba, the “Fireblade” combines the power of an open-class motorcycle with the weight and handling of a 600.
  • 1995 The radical EXP-2 (two-stroke 400cc) wins its class in the Granada-Dakar rally. The bike is the proof-of-concept for a cleaner burning and more powerful two-stroke engine concept that uses a pivoting “valve” to close the exhaust port.
  • 2001 Valentino Rossi wins the last ever 500cc World Championship on the NSR500 two-stroke.
  • 2002 All change. Or not. Rossi wins the first World Championship in the 990cc MotoGP era, on the five-cylinder four-stroke RC211V. Valentino Rossi wins the last ever 500cc World Championship on the NSR500 two-stroke.
  • 2004 Honda prototypes a motorcycle powered by a fuel cell.
  • 2006 The 50,000,000th Super Cub is sold.
  • 2007 Honda is the first manufacturer to offer a motorcycle with air bag crash protection.
  • 2010 The VFR1200F is introduced. While it isn’t a sportbike like anticipated, it’s significant in that it’s the first production motorcycle with an optional dual clutch transmission, allowing true push-button shifting.

    • Introduced in early 2009 as a 2010 model, Honda breaks the mold with the chopper-inspired Fury. Powered by a 1300cc V-Twin, it’s something of a departure for the traditionally conservative company.

    Due to the turmoil surrounding the new AMA regime following its purchase by the Daytona Motorsports Group, Honda decides to withdraw from the series, stating the “current AMA/DMG racing environment does not align with the company goals.”

  • 2011 In an effort to tap into the burgeoning beginner-bike segment, the CBR250R is introduced. Powered by a 249cc single-cylinder engine, the mini CBR is manufactured in Honda’s Thailand plant and sold worldwide.
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