Chiswick Honda Way Bikes Newsletter - September 2016

CHISWICK HONDA BIKES • ISSUE 23 • SEPT 2016

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Coolest Bike Jobs in the World New CBR250RR

AUTOTRADER AWARDS Africa Twin Victorious

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COOLEST BIKE JOBS IN THE 3

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Explore Wales

Wales is now home of the Honda Adventure Centre. Dave Thorpe (Four-time Motocross champion) and Stephen Sword (Multiple British Champion) host off-road tours to improve customers Adventure riding. Dave and Stephen get to combine natural beauty, fresh air and bike power in the ultimate day job.

Access all areas

Motorcycle marshals are the unsung heroes at races across the world. Paul Kermode overseas the Isle of Mann TT, and is the first point of call at the scene of a crash.

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motorbike photographer

Jon Jessop, gets up close and personal with professional riders on the track, this must be one of the next best things to riding a RC213V like Marc Marquez.

bond stuntrider

In 2012, Robbie Maddison played James Bond in Skyfall. His job was to be the stunt rider for Daniel Craig on a Honda CRF-250R.

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with lions and zebras

Follow in the footsteps of Fredlink Adventure Safaris’ motorcycle guide Frederic Poincon, and hang out with the animals of Africa on a Honda XR Baja 250. No traffic. No queues. No pollution. Just you, a bike and the ‘Big Five’.

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WORLD

Honda have recently reviewed their 9 favourite bike jobs in the world and we had to share due to how impressive some of these are:

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blood Bike hero

SERV blood bikes such as John Millard, are responsible for transporting blood and other emergency medical items all over the UK. Their efforts save the NHS millions of pounds.

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Race the world

Being a Honda World Superbike rider is a pretty decent job! Not only do riders such as Nicky Hayden get to ride a state-of-the-art 1000cc Fireblade, they also get to travel the world.

create one-of-a-kind masterpieces

Celebrity customiser, Jesse James creates custom motorcycles at West Coast Customers for a variety of high-profile customers. His achievements include a Honda VTX Café Racer.

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Pizza all day long

Many people would be very happy being around Pizza all day, that’s as long as one of the perks of being a delivery driver is free Pizza.

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Honda launches new CBR250RR he CBR250RR has been launched in Indonesia, confirming the bike is going into the full production. Honda’s latest super sport model was previewed as a concept model last year being presented as a track-only bike, but it is now certain the bike will go on sale in 2016 to selected markets.

Currently those markets do not include any of Europe, so the UK is currently missing out. As it stands, Honda has announced no plans to get the bike certified for UK sale and there is nothing scheduled either.

Don’t let this disappoint you too much, the images of the CBR250RR has given us a glimpse of what the new 2017 Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade may look like. The angular and rakish styling are sure to be very similar and the Fireblade is also expected to have a quad-LED headlight.

The lightweight sportsbike is powered by an all-new water-cooled four-stroke, four-valve, parallel-twin 250cc motor which Honda is aiming to have class-leading power. The engine has rideby-wire, three riding modes.

The link to the larger models in the CBR range can be seen in the styling which features dual-LED front headlights along with the low-front, high-back end.

Other key features include a newly designed steel pipe truss frame improves both strength and flexibility. The bike is able to be slimmer thanks to swingarm being an aluminium gullarm, and the right side swing arm shaped to reduce exhaust pipe extrusion.

Watch out in store & online for more updates on this impressive bike!

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AFRICA TWIN VICTORIOUS AT THE AUTOTRADER AWARDS Africa Twin has taken top Auto Trader honours, sweeping the board with five category wins. Alongside the overall title, the breadth and depth of the Honda range was evident, with wins in the Best A1, Best A2, Best Commuter and Best Adventure categories.

Since the all-new CRF1000L Africa Twin arrived in showrooms at the start of the year, 30 years since its predecessor took the first in a run of four consecutive Paris-Dakar victories, it has remained the UK’s best-selling bike of 2016.

Auto Trader’s editor-inchief and head judge, Jon Quirk, praised Africa Twin’s true adventure capabilities: “The Africa Twin is a genuine, dual-purpose adventure bike that puts Honda back at the very top of its game. In a market brimming with credible competitors, the Honda stands out with its clever combination of slim shape, superb engine and gearbox and excellent ergonomics. It’s a phenomenal all-rounder.”

Honda UK’s head of bikes, Nick Campolucci, was ecstatic with the awards haul and commented: “What’s special about Africa Twin picking up the Auto Trader Bike of the Year prize is that everything the judges said about the bike matches precisely with what the design team wanted to achieve.

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also incredible off-road. It had to be a true, all-round adventure motorcycle.

“The new Africa Twin has surpassed all expectation and, when you look at the price-point, it’s no surprise to see it top the UK sales chart like it has.”

As well as the Bike of the Year accolade, Honda’s CB125F took the prize for Best A1 bike for the second year running, while the CB500F was named best A2 machine, thanks to a host of updates for 2015, including a larger fuel tank, LED lighting, adjustable front forks and new lightweight exhaust.

Finally, aside from Africa Twin being named Best Adventure Bike, alongside its overall win, possibly the most notable mention for Honda was in the Best Commuter category.

For Nick Campolucci, the NC range has been a game changer for Honda: “The introduction of the NC was ground-breaking. It appeals to a totally new type of customer; to new riders and lapsed riders, to people who want the commuting ease of a scooter but the look of a ‘proper’ bike. It truly is pulling people out of crowded train carriages and onto two wheels.”

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