Honda XR650L is easier to ride than it looks, averages a surprising 5.6 litres per 100km.
Honda XR650L is easier to ride than it looks, averages a surprising 5.6 litres per 100km.
Honda’s big single in pictures
This is a 644cc, air-cooled, carburettor-fed, steel-framed, barely street-legal enduro bike, the kind that used to win the Baja and the Dakar, could be serviced with a shifting-spanner at the side of the road and seemed to go on forever. Pictures: Dave Abrahams
This is a 644cc, air-cooled, carburettor-fed, steel-framed, barely street-legal enduro bike, the kind that used to win the Baja and the Dakar, could be serviced with a shifting-spanner at the side of the road and seemed to go on forever. Pictures: Dave Abrahams
This is a 644cc, air-cooled, carburettor-fed, steel-framed, barely street-legal enduro bike, the kind that used to win the Baja and the Dakar, could be serviced with a shifting-spanner at the side of the road and seemed to go on forever. Pictures: Dave Abrahams
This is a 644cc, air-cooled, carburettor-fed, steel-framed, barely street-legal enduro bike, the kind that used to win the Baja and the Dakar, could be serviced with a shifting-spanner at the side of the road and seemed to go on forever. Pictures: Dave Abrahams
This is a 644cc, air-cooled, carburettor-fed, steel-framed, barely street-legal enduro bike, the kind that used to win the Baja and the Dakar, could be serviced with a shifting-spanner at the side of the road and seemed to go on forever. Pictures: Dave Abrahams
This is a 644cc, air-cooled, carburettor-fed, steel-framed, barely street-legal enduro bike, the kind that used to win the Baja and the Dakar, could be serviced with a shifting-spanner at the side of the road and seemed to go on forever. Pictures: Dave Abrahams
This is a 644cc, air-cooled, carburettor-fed, steel-framed, barely street-legal enduro bike, the kind that used to win the Baja and the Dakar, could be serviced with a shifting-spanner at the side of the road and seemed to go on forever. Pictures: Dave Abrahams
This is a 644cc, air-cooled, carburettor-fed, steel-framed, barely street-legal enduro bike, the kind that used to win the Baja and the Dakar, could be serviced with a shifting-spanner at the side of the road and seemed to go on forever. Pictures: Dave Abrahams
This is a 644cc, air-cooled, carburettor-fed, steel-framed, barely street-legal enduro bike, the kind that used to win the Baja and the Dakar, could be serviced with a shifting-spanner at the side of the road and seemed to go on forever. Pictures: Dave Abrahams
This is a 644cc, air-cooled, carburettor-fed, steel-framed, barely street-legal enduro bike, the kind that used to win the Baja and the Dakar, could be serviced with a shifting-spanner at the side of the road and seemed to go on forever. Pictures: Dave Abrahams
This is a 644cc, air-cooled, carburettor-fed, steel-framed, barely street-legal enduro bike, the kind that used to win the Baja and the Dakar, could be serviced with a shifting-spanner at the side of the road and seemed to go on forever. Pictures: Dave Abrahams
Published Apr 24, 2012