Honda Test CB750 Hornet 2025: Introduction
As a millennial born in the nineties, I could say that my story with the motorcycles goes ‘almost’ by the hand of the Honda Hornet. That first model, which was born in 1998 as the naked version of the CBR600F, had 96 hp and 63 nm of torque granted by a tetracylindrical engine.
The years passed and the evolution of this Naked Sports Media refined (and sharpened) with each update, becoming one of the motorcycles that I saw most around me. At that time, I still couldn’t drive them, but I was already beginning to understand that if the river sounds … but like everything in this life: its end came. The success of the CB650R was relegating it to the drawer of the forgetfulness until, years later, its history was rewritten to turn its past into a point and apart.
A break that allows me to close the red thread of my story with the Hornet in the best possible way: testing it for almost a thousand kilometers of curves, curves and more curves. Now he calls Honda CB750 Hornet and arrives in 2025 with some touch -ups that not only focus on the aesthetic section, but also improve their commitment to sportsmanship by adjusting suspension and injection in its engine.
Before entering the test, let’s not forget that it is a slight update, so we continue before the middle displacement naked and 755 cc bicylindrical engine. This segment is passionate about being my gateway to the world of “real motorcycles”, so I can easily empathize with the possible buyer of this Hornet or its rivals, such as the Yamaha MT-07, the KTM Duke 790, the Suzuki GSX-8S or the Kawasaki Z650.
The Honda wasp has the gift of being the midpoint among all of them, with 92 hp of power, 193 kilograms of weight in gear order and a technological endowment only behind the Austrian. The Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki are less powerful and very similar in weight, so the KTM is the most unique of all of them. As usual, a limited version is offered for 47 hp A2.
Honda Test CB750 Hornet 2025: Main changes
At the aesthetic level, the Honda CB750 Hornet 2025 maintains the minimalist, sharp and current line, but without grandiloques. It is a model that was born certainly aged, for not being risky in any aspect, but in return, the passing fashions will not pass over him.
The deposit wears the marked angular forms that remind an insect in guard, even with the change of the lighthouse. It could be said that he loses some personality, but earns integers in modernity and the apollo of the wasp is still well. I speak of your new optical group LED, that reinforces its aggressive look and grants more visual space between the wheel and its gaze.
The rest remains the same, available in silver, blue, black and white tones along with Sport accessories such as those of the proven unit: anti -slip in the tank, hill cover, specific decoration and the fools.
Another novelty in its equipment is the 5 -inch color TFT instrumentation, which significantly improves its reading and that incorporates connectivity through the application of Honda Roadsync. In addition, the controls or switches of the left pineapple are easy to act in motion, something that is appreciated to modify the information granted by the display.
The Quickshifter is optionally available and serves both to go up and to lower marches, since they have refined their handling to make it more effective in both actions. In addition, you can adjust your action between soft and hard (three levels) through the menu, which you can also create custom -driving mode profiles and even remove traction control. It will be activated again when the engine turns off and turned on. The standard driving modes are the standard, Raing, Sport and User 1 and 2 (the customizable ones)
Honda Test CB750 Hornet 2025: Important changes …
They come when talking about what is not seen with the naked eye. The engine remains the 92 hp bicylinder, which delivers its maximum splendor over 9,500 laps and 75 Nm at 7,250 rpm. His best face continues to deliver it in the middle range, but the adjustments in the injection and the presence of two counter -procurement axes makes his behavior in casualties much finer and even seems to have more power. In addition, Honda says that it uses a racing treatment for the cylinder, which reduces friction and allows you to obtain a higher turn regime.
They have also worked on the suspensions signed by Showa, consisting of a 41 mm inverted fork and adjustable rear monoamortiguer in preload. Despite not having regulation, the front suspension arrives with a more sporty tuning than the previous one and has been treated specifically for this model. At the controls, the Honda CB750 Hornet is still an easy and noble motorcycle, but now it allows you to go a little further.
All this without losing sight of the fact that it can be the only motorcycle of your garage, thanks to a noble and controllable urban use. The ergonomics is very successful. He Seat is only 795 mm From the ground, which facilitates that pilots of all sizes arrive well with my feet and I felt very comfortable with my 1.60 m high.
The wide and plane handlebar allows to maneuver in effort without effort, and the general position is comfortable for day to day. It is perfect to move between cars, but also to trace linked curves in mountain ports. An environment in which we can raise the Approved consumption, around 4.3 l/100 km. Its 15.2 -liter deposit gives you autonomy for more than 300 km and even more if you control your desires with the accelerator’s fist.
Honda Test CB750 Hornet 2025: On open road, an ode to humility
The Hornet feels light in progress, with a Ergued but slightly aggressive position thanks to the position of the stirrups. He diamond -type steel chassisdeveloped in Italy as the previous one, seeks to maintain a successful rigidity and lightness on an ideal motorcycle for the neophytes of the routes, but also for the most sensible.
And it is that as the patio is, both at the level of persecution of infractions and the amount of traffic on Spanish roads, a motorcycle like the Hornet is more than enough to have a large time on an open road. His ease of driving will make trust a matter of kilometers and predict a match between pilot and motorcycle almost 100% of cases.
Its 296 mm front disc brake system with Nissin radial anchor and four piston tweezers makes it the best motorcycle for “burns” that want to run over their possibilities. Even being wrong, this Hornet will grant their approval.
Of course, it is possible that your good character and tuning, make a better pilot than you would be with any other motorcycle, so that humility will be something necessary before the following question: Can you fall short?
In very fast curves, of which you should not do by law on open road, the motorcycle can begin to move, more because of the scourge of the air in our body than due to lack of stiffness. And the suspensions, you can end up wanting a little more hardness, but it would go against the versatility with which it stands out.
Only in those cases, which arrive over time and a lot of experience, you could miss something else. But even there, it would value if the safe fun of this wasp is worth more than the fight to tame another motorcycle.
