Honda xl 600

Here’s a “very clean, all original” XL with less than 4,000 miles.

There's little we love more than a dual-purpose, unkillable thumper of 80s vintage. Here where we live, there's a small group of riders who spend their Sunday afternoons finding trails, fire roads, and urban jumps on their Honda XR/XL dual-sports. Yours truly, whose first-ever bike was an XR200, has

ZZ Moto restores a limited-edition Honda thumper... By the mid-1980s, the Paris Dakar Rally had become an immensely popular event on the world stage, and the big factories were competing hard to develop the next two-wheeled Trans-Saharan victory machine. At the same time, the

Honda Xl600LM off-road finder

Our weekly roundup is back with a bang for 2018. We've got a cafe'd R nineT from Italy, a Dakar-worthy Honda XL600R scrambler from England, and a Yamaha XS650 bobber from Bulgaria. Choose your poison. Moto Guzzi V9 by Craig Rodsmith There’s just something about turbo Guzzis and Craig Rodsmith. We saw the last one up close and personal at the Handbuilt Show in Austin and featured its dustbin-faired perfection on these pages. Now Rodsmith’s gone and done it again. But this time around, the…

Following an inspiring road trip in California to Joshua Tree, our designer is updating a 1987 Honda 600 Transalp in a resto-mod spirit.

In 1983, Honda introduced the XL600R (aka 600 XLR), a big-bore dual-purpose machine with nearly 11 inches of ground clearance, 8+ inches of suspension travel, and 45 horsepower on tap. Like other open-class dual-sports of the era -- the Yamaha XT600 and Suzuki DR600, for instance -- the bike was des

We have been watching the builds of Andrew Greenland ever since his red Honda Dominator custom was featured on Bike EXIF years ago. Since then, Andrew has turned out a stable's worth of froth-worthy Honda customs -- many of which we plan to share in the coming weeks.First up is his newest bu

The Honda XL600LM was a tribute to the HRC Paris-Dakar Rally machines of the 1980s. In 1982, Cyril Neveu won the legendary trans-Saharan race on an XR550, and Honda was intent on repeating that victory, assembling ever more potent factory teams to tackle the world's most challenging off-road race.