Test: Honda CBR 125 R
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Test: Honda CBR 125 R

26.05.2022 /

Previously, it was the NSR ...

Again, as with the 250cc CBR benchmark, I'll start with a historical comparison: the NSR 125, as you'd expect from a Honda. Not that there is anything wrong with endurance in general, but energetic zweitakters require neat helmet contents as well as good athletic prowess that most 16-year-olds don't know enough about yet.

In 2004, the four-stroke CBR 125 was re-released to the market after the one-eighth-liter "athlete". Why is the athlete in quotation marks? This bike had a rear wheel just 100 millimeters wide, and the handlebars were pushed so close to the rider that they could be fitted with rear-view mirrors. Please show me the "road" with mirrors on the steering wheel. But the engine sold perfectly!

It just has a little more character than the previous model.

This year's model has taken it one step further. The fact that the rear tire is 130 millimeters wide and the front tire is the same as the rear tire in the older model excludes it from the range of mopeds. It's the same with the design, which flirts with the current big sports Honda. Performance remains below legal limits, as in sixth gear the engine reaches speeds of up to 130 kilometers per hour under the driver, leaning against the windshield, while consuming only two and a half liters per hundred kilometers. Well, we didn't drive economically. Since the body does not hang by hand, the small Honda CBR is comfortable and extremely manoeuvrable in town (or between cones).

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text: Matevž Gribar, photo: Saša Kapetanovič

In the video below you can see the difference in acceleration from about 40 km / h. The 125cc CBR reached 102 km / h and the 250cc reached 127 km / h at the same time. However, on Slovenian roads, we still must not be faster ...

Honda CBR 125 R in CBR 250 RA acceleration from approx. 40 km / h

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