Fully fuelled, the 20.4-litre tank is said to provide around 250 miles of range - in real-world riding, I’d expect lower. The standard seat height for the NT1100 is 820mm, with a 51 front / 49 rear weight distribution. Standard fit: cruise control, 65 L panniers (33 L on the left, 32 L on the right), 5-step heated grips, a 6.5” touchscreen TFT display with secondary LCD, USB and ACC sockets as standard in the dash, LED lights all round, and a wide pillion seat (60mm thick) with grab rails, low pegs and 175mm ground clearance. Last, and perhaps most important for most riders looking at this, are the touring features. And in truth, I can’t think of a single reason why you shouldn’t make the jump. Overall though, I think Honda has smashed it with this one and fans of the bikes I mentioned above will likely be looking at this as a worthy replacement for their VFR, Crosstourer, or pan European. That’s not to say I don’t have some gripes with the bike though, narrow panniers being one, another being the way the positional lights (in the indicator) reflect off the wind deflectors making me think I’ve left my indicators on, and the screen is a ball ache to adjust - and cannot be done on the fly. And don’t even get me started on the switchgear… That’s kind of how I feel about the Honda NT1100. Bikes like the VFR1200F, Crosstourer, and Pan European, none of them really had one thing about them that made them such big hitters with riders, they just did every really rather well. Some of the best bikes from Honda’s back catalogue have also been a little bit bland. The 2022 Honda NT1100 for me is an example of Honda doing what Honda absolutely does best, taking a very specific design brief and executing it perfectly. Does any of that detract from how good it is on two-up trips and tours? Again, no. Does it make you go ‘ohhh, I’m gonna ride the wheels off you’ every time you open the garage? Not really. Does it have massive headline-grabbing specs and numbers? No. Is it the most inspiring motorcycle Honda has ever made? No. What is the Honda NT1100 like to live with? The squished pannier design means you are going to have to pack cleverly on longer trips, and if you are the kind of rider that ditches the helmets when you reach your destination, go for the optional 38 or cavernous 50-litre top cases. Now, that is a decent amount of space, but the packaging of the bike is overall very slim – likely to make filtering a little easier. You get 33 litres on one side and 32 on the exhaust side. If there was one slight grip of the trip, it was when we wanted to dump the bulky textiles before heading for lunch, we really struggled to her jacket and mine into the cases, and you have no chance of fitting in a full-faced lid. We both ended the day ache-free and feeling fresh. The grab rails are in easy reach, and the overall riding position was described as perfect. From a comfort and security point of view, she really couldn’t fault it. Sure, some self-levelling kit on a bike like this would be the dream, but the Show Separate Function Big Piston forks are well set up for UK roads.Īfter the ride, I checked in with the good lady to dig a little bit deeper into the way the bike performed from her perspective. It’s shod with traditional Showa suspension at both ends, not the electronically adjusted kit found on the Africa Twin Adventure Sports and Gold Wing. The ride to the track was pleasant enough and was impressed by the ride quality of the bike. It might not be exciting in any way shape or form, but it is efficient, helping me to achieve close to 60mpg on the ride over to the track - under normal riding conditions I was getting around 55mpg average. If needs must, the shift switches on the left handlebar will override the system, so long as you aren’t asking it to do something outside of its comfort zone. It’s the most relaxing of all the shifting schedules on the bike, changing up extremely early until at around 35mph you land in top gear. Pulling away from home on the morning of my track day, I left in plenty of time and kept the bike in its most conservative DCT mode, D.
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