Honda CRF1100 Africa Twin

Adventure Rider Issue #41

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Lesson Learned with Karen Ramsay
• Old-time Adventure with Andy Strapz
• Time Is On Your Side with Miles Davis
• Some People with Mike Ferris
• Adventure Survivors
• Macna Impact Pro Jacket And Fulcrum Pants
• The Real Thing
• BMW 1150GS/A
• Research, Reunion And Rebirth
• I Didn’t Mean To Be Mean
• Chains
• Solo Mission: Corona Musings To A Mouse
• Honda CRF1100 Africa Twin
• Beer With No Pub
• Rosie Lalonde
• Go Spend With Them
• The Simpson
• It’s what we do

Honda’s distance-destroying adventure flagship.

The line of ancestry from the first Africa Twin in 1988 to the bike seen here is a little tenuous. Like a few others from the 1980s and 1990s, the current bike is a relaunch of the name on a totally new bike. It’s aimed at largely the same rider and terrain as the original, but there’s a considerable time and technology gap.

The Africa Twin kicked off in 1988 as a 650cc V-twin and, typically of Honda, was just a little in front of the other ‘Dakar-inspired’ soft-roaders on sale at around that time. The name was dropped from Honda’s line-up in the early 2000s as riders’ tastes moved elsewhere, with the final model a 750cc V-twin labelled the XRV750T.