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Honda CB 1300 Super Four 2003- Found in Honda |
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Make: Honda Model: CB 1300 Super Four Year: 2003- Engine: Liquid cooled, four stroke, Transverse four cylinder, DOHC, 4 valve per cylinder. Capacity: 1284 Bore: 78 x 67.2 mm Compression: 9.6 1 Induction: PGM-FI fuel injection with 4 x 36mm throttle bodies Starter: - Power: 114 hp @ 7500 rpm Torque: 1117 Nm @ 6000 rpm Transmission: 5 Speed Front suspension: 43mm cartridge style forks Rear suspension: Twin shocks with adjustable spring preload Front brake: 2x 310mm discs 4 piston calipers Rear brake: Single 256mm Front tyre: 130/70 ZR17 Rear tyre: 190/60 ZR17 Dry weight: 224 kg Fuel capacity: 21 Litres |
| What has a steel cradle frame, big twin shocks on the rear, no fairing and an enormous four-cylinder powerplant? Correct it's your typical universal Japanese motorcycle (UJM). Asthetically unchanged much in the last 30 years, but everything else has including the ride has improved no end! Honda's big CB1300 is living proof that the UJM is alive and well, and still a complete laugh to ride. So what's this bike all about then? Well having pretty much given the game away, the CB1300 is in reality a combination of all sorts of machinery developed by Honda since they shocked the motorcycle world back in 1968 with the introduction of the CB750 four. The motor is a newly-developed 1,284cc in-line four cylinder engine and has been tuned for grunt rather than top end screaming. Honda claim 114hp @ 7,500rpm from the liquid-cooled engine and 117-Nm of torque @ 6,000rpm. Having ridden it for some time I would imagine that at least 100-Nm of torque is available from barely above the 1,000rpm idl | |
