I Bought a Thing: Classic 60 mpg 1982 Honda CX500 UJM Motorcycle

Autos I Bought a Thing: 1982 Honda CX500: It’s been a while since I made the trip out to Kankakee, IL to pick

The first answer is largely personal. For years I’d had my eye on Honda’s CX series motorcycles. In their various forms, the longitudinally-mounted V-twins served as the basis for many of today’s modern motorcycling “classes”. To wit, the earliest Honda Interstate touring bikes were based on the CX, and have since evolved into the GoldWing type “road sofas” and their massive cult followings. The CX “C Custom” of the late 1970s evolved into the Shadow cruisers, which took the “weekend biker” fight straight to Harley-Davidson with more speed, better build quality, and superior reliability. It was a turbocharged CX650, also, that was one of the industry’s first true “superbikes”, setting the stage for Honda’s CBR “Hurricane” and all the Honda repli-racers that followed. Honda’s CX is a thing , in other words, and this one – the “regular” CX500 – was Soichiro Honda’s attempt t...

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