CBX1000, road going beauty
Canterbury pit stop. Where are the riders?
at an end. Authorities struggled to boost
starting grids by making machinery in all
classes more accessible to a wider range of
competitors.
New rules and regulations would soon
make exotic multi-cylinder four-strokes
impossible to sustain. It was also the
beginning of a trend that would change
racing for years to come, reducing the
number of cylinders to a maximum
of four, and paving the way for two-
stroke domination. So what of Irimajiri’s
masterpiece, and multi-world championship
winning six? Well the road riding public
waited for a road-going version. Honda
would surely transfer the technology to a
machine that could be bought in the show
room and used on the road. The faithful had
to wait nearly twelve years, and they were
eventually rewarded with the remarkable
CBX1000. Once again it was Soichiro Irimajiri
who was responsible for the six-cylinder
in-line motor, with six carburettors, and
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