Review: 2022 Honda CBR300R ABS

[Hagerty]

Picture this: You're hanging around the Rock Store at the top of Mulholland Highway with your rental Camry the day before you fly home. The leather-clad crowd around praises the virtues of the GSXR600 chassis and the electronics package on the R1 for what seems like hours before a voice from the ether comes down and declares that, in fact, all of that sucks.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/motorcycles/new-motorcycle-reviews/review-2022-honda-cbr300r-abs/

[Gary_Bechtold]

The CBR has a modern classic look to me. They look like a fast bike sitting still.

[Kyle]

The side fairings are much simpler than most of the larger full-fairing bikes. That and the general size really help it look simple and approachable.

[4RenT]

Brandon takes nice pictures!

[Kyle]

And he does it fast too!

[Eddie1]

Miss my smaller bike. The Suzuki Bandit 400. Beautiful looking motorcyce.Unfortunatly no parts were available for it when it needed them 😞

[brb]

I like the new generation of small displacement bikes. 40hp is the sweet spot, enough punch for the freeway and all grins in the twisties without getting too extra-legal. I spent two weeks on a KTM 390 Adventure and found it a pleasure on pavement and dirt roads. My only gripe on some of the small pocket rockets is they are two short for a 34" inseam.

[CamryDriver]

Sounds like a sweet little machine. I remember riding a friend's 1st gen Ninja 250 years ago on twisty NY Finger Lakes roads and coming away with a real appreciation of the thing. It's a lot of fun to wind out a mini sport bike to 12000RPM while staying at somewhat legal speeds.

I know its a useless comparison to make, but boy for $5k new for a new one of these smallbore sportbikes, for a beginning rider I'd point them right to an clean older Ninja 250/GS500/Ninja 500 for less than half the price (local midwest prices). Not as painful if you drop a cheaper used bike either.