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1981 — 1984シービーエックス ヨンヒャク エフ
CBX400F
- Code
- NC07
- Engine
- 399 cc air-cooled DOHC 16-valve inline four
- Numbers
- 48 PS at 11,000 rpm
- Market
- Japan
Honda had bet on twins in the 400 class. Then Kawasaki's Z400FX (1979), Yamaha's XJ400 and Suzuki's GSX400F made the four-cylinder 400 the thing to have. The CBX400F, launched on 17 November 1981 in red, red and white, or blue and white, was Honda's answer — and it came loaded.
It was the first motorcycle with TRAC brake-torque anti-dive, the first with inboard ventilated disc brakes, and the first mass-produced bike with a hollow cast-aluminium swingarm on Pro-Link suspension. The four pipes cross in an X on their way into its 4-1-2 exhaust.
Honda replaced it with the CBR400F in late 1983, then brought it back in 1984 because people kept asking. Its sales record for bikes over 125 cc stood until 2003. Today clean examples sell for several times their new price, theft is so common that some insurers refuse to cover it, and Honda still paints CB400 Super Fours in its red-and-white and blue-and-white.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · Honda_CBX400F, ja.wikipedia.org · ホンダ・CBX400F