Happy Birthday CBX!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics|June 2018

You’ll read elsewhere in this issue that this month effectively marks the stunning debut of the six-cylinder Honda CBX1000.

Happy Birthday CBX!

To this end, the CBX Riders Club (UK) will be celebrating 40 years of the CBX at the National Motorcycle Museum Birmingham from 10am on Saturday, June 16.

The CBX Riders Club (UK) was founded in 1992 by Pete and Rusty Broad and has members throughout the UK, Ireland, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, USA, Canada and Japan.

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