Honda SLR 650

The Honda SLR 650 is a motorcycle from the Japanese maker Honda with the look of an enduro. It was built from 1996 to 2000 at the Montesa plant near Barcelona in Spain and was meant to widen the range as an inexpensive city bike. The SLR designation points to the visual closeness to earlier scrambler-style motorcycles, the forerunners of the enduros. Despite its moderate off-road looks it is a pure road machine whose off-road use should not go beyond gravel and field tracks, since the firm suspension and the overdamped, awkwardly adjustable rear shock work against rough terrain. In exchange the set-up gives good handling in city traffic and on winding country roads.