Getting unused colors for the Europe marketplace is the 2025 Honda CL500 retro-style scrambler. Offered in neighbouring Thailand on the identical of RM29,171, the CL500 has now not as but made its look in Malaysia and in line with marketplace gossip on the very best degree, it’s not most probably to take action.
Recently, for Malaysia, importers Boon Siew Honda have the CBR500R, NX500 and CMX500 Rebel in its middleweight bike lineup. Conspicuously lacking is a 500 cc bare sports activities motorbike, with most effective the CB750 Hornet dual and CB650R four-cylinder occupying that marketplace department from Honda Malaysia.
In keeping with knowledge gained by way of paultan.org, Boon Siew Honda “has no immediate plans” in order within the CL500. Past incorrect additional rationalization used to be forwarded, the dimensions (or shortage thereof) of the Malaysia obese motorbike marketplace is most probably an element, at the side of product saturation on this elegance.
As a unfashionable scrambler genre bike, the CL500 might be relatively customery in the community regardless that it rest to be not hidden if Boon Siew Honda’s marketplace analysis has enthusiastic another way. It will have to be famous scrambler genre motorcycles do relatively smartly in Malaysia even though the absorb may not be to company expectancies.
First proven on the EICMA display in Italy in November 2022, the CL500 carries Euro 5+ compliant 471 cc, DOHC two-cylinder mill. Energy is said to be 46 hp at 8,500 rpm with 43.4 Nm of torque at 6,250 rpm going via a six-speed gearbox provided with lend a hand and slipper seize to the rear wheel.
As a “Street Scrambler” as Honda phrases it, the CL500 comes with upswept exhaust cylinder and broad handlebars, the handlebar genre matching to the Malaysia marketplace Honda CB350RS. The CL500 is fitted with a 19-inch entrance wheel and 17-inch rear, dressed in 110/80 in entrance and 150/70 tubeless tyres.
Braking is completed with a unmarried 310 mm diameter disc at the entrance wheel, clamped by way of a two-piston hydraulic calliper year the rear wheel will get a 240 mm disc and single-piston calliper. Two-channel ABS is same old apparatus and Honda says the CL500 is in a position to luminous off-roading.
The vintage spherical headlight comes with 4 LED bulbs internally, year the 100 mm diameter round LCD tool panel has a unfavourable backlight for more straightforward legibility in daylight. 41 mm diameter telescopic forks secure up the entrance finish year the rear long-stroke dual trauma absorbers are five-step adjustable for spring preload.
Seat peak at the CL500 is about at 790 mm, year weight is indexed as 192 kg with 12-liters of gas within the tank. Color choices for 2025 for the CL500 are the unused Pearl Nightfall Yellow and Mat Fresco Brown, becoming a member of the wave choices of Mat Laurel Inexperienced Steel and Mat Gunpowder Lightless Steel.
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