Honda CB 400 Twin series

The Honda CB 400 Twin series is a series of middle-class motorcycles that Honda produced from 1977 to 1981. The series covers the touring motorcycles Honda CB 400 T (Dream, Hawk) and Honda CB 400 A Hondamatic, the sport model Honda CB 400 N (Super Dream) and the customs Honda CM 400 T, Honda CM 400 E and Honda CM 400 A Hondamatic. The Dutch article notes that Honda had put the CB 250 on the market in 1968 and replaced the CB 350 with the CB 360 in 1974, all of them twins and sister models. In 1975 Honda entered the 400 cc class by boring out the four-cylinder CB 350 Four into the CB 400 Four, but that machine did not catch on in the United States, where buyers favoured twins. Honda therefore decided to build a more modern version of the CB 250, the CB 250 T, and to enlarge the CB 360 to 400 cc with the same lines, sold as the CB 400 T Hawk in the United States and the CB 400 T Dream in the United Kingdom.