Honda Has New Babies: The CRF Family Grows To Seven
Honda has introduced the 2019 Model Year CRF “Collective”. It is a kind of building block approach to a complete line of off-road racing and off-Road trail bikes that build off the base CRF450R and CRF250R. Honda made a good point of the companies long history of involvement with off-road motorcycling going back to the 1962 Baja run by Bud Ekins and Bill Robertson Jr. on a Honda CL72 (250cc) scrambler. In an ironic circle this early Honda off-road motorcycle featured electric starting only. Other examples of Honda’s off-road racing was their first U.S. motocross championship in 1973 with the ground braking CR250 Elsinore with Gary Jones doing the riding. Jones, still actively riding, was in attendance at this event. Also mentioned was the first Honda motorcycle produced at Honda’s U.S motorcycle plant in Ohio, the 1980 CR250R. Clearly Honda has a long history of dirt bikes in America.
The new bikes fall into two groups, Racing “R” & “RX” and Trail Bikes “X” and “L”
CRF250R and CRF250RX are Motocross and GNCC-style/closed course off-road competition bikes.
CRF450R, CRF450RWE (Works Edition) and CRF450RX are Motocross and GNCC-style/closed course off-road competition bikes
2019 CRF450R
CRF450L & CRF450X are dual sport On / Off-Road trail bikes and off-road only trail bikes
We have the full details and more specifics on these bikes in the following posts or click on any of the images above to go to the stories.
https://dirtbiketest.com/fresh-dirt/hondas-2019-crf450l-crf450x-trail-trail-legal
https://dirtbiketest.com/fresh-dirt/2019-honda-race-crfs-works-edition-ken-roczen-replica
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5 Responses to “2019 Honda CRF Family Revealed–With A Dual-Purpose Addition CRF450L”
Jimmy Lewis
Not really, go on some forms with a nice photo-shopped image and keep them going. Everyone is doing it.
Jimmy Lewis
Where do you see this bike?
BVaughn
Thou gets them WAY in advance of us little guys! I’d love to see a Rally comparison…
Jimmy Lewis
We are 70% sure you are 100% wrong but we are still looking for Chuck Sun.
Scott Evers
So much for starting errant rumors.. i’m never going to see a WR500 at this rate.