2013 – 2018 Honda CB500X

Along with the CB500F and CBR500R announced at the EICMA Motorcycle Show in 2012, the Japanese motorcycle manufacturer also announced the CB500X, an adventure-style machine with a fun-to-ride factor and an extra dose of versatility.In 2013, Honda launched the CB500X, a motorcycle that featured a compact height-adjustable windscreen and a larger-capacity fuel tank that was carefully shaped to offer riders an unrestricted riding position.Also, the 2013 CB500X model offered plenty of performance that suited the adventure sport touring riders, with a modern and torquey parallel-twin engine, an upright handlebar that accommodated a vast variety of riders, and the shape and height of the seat that gave the riders more space to move.The adventure machine came with a diamond-shaped 35 mm steel tube frame in a lightweight and rigid package that offered responsive sport handling and housed a 41 mm telescopic fork with 12 cm (4.9 inches) of wheel travel and a sophisticated Pro-Link single-shock absorber on the rear that provided nine-stage spring preload adjustability and almost 12 cm (4.7 inches) of wheel travel.The bike came from the factory with a set of lightweight cast aluminum wheels fitted with a 320 mm wave-style disc with a two-piston caliper on the front and a 240 mm disc squeezed by a single-piston caliper on the rear that provided strong braking performance.As for power, the 2013 Honda CB500X had its heartbeat set by a 471cc parallel-twin four-stroke liquid-cooled engine fed by an electronically controlled fuel injection system that helped deliver an output power of 47 hp with maximum strength at 8,500 rpm and 43 Nm (32 lb-ft) of torque available at 7,000 rpm.