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.