Honda NT 650 Hawk

The Honda NT 650 Hawk GT, model code RC 31, is an unfaired motorcycle with an aluminium frame, a single-sided swingarm and a V-twin engine making roughly 50 to 60 PS. Honda introduced it in 1988 but did not sell it officially in continental Europe. In Britain Honda dealers offered it as the sister model of the NTV 650 Revere, and its main markets were Britain, the United States, Canada and Japan. From 1990 a concept-identical series with improved details, called Bros, was sold mainly in Japan and Britain, including a 400 cubic centimetre version to suit Japanese licence rules that kept every part of the 650 apart from the engine. German and Austrian examples arrived as grey imports, and the motorcycle gained a lasting following from the late 1990s.