Honda NM4

March 20, 2014 -- Honda displays an amazing "Neo-futuristic" concept bike at the Osaka Motorcycle Show. The thing looked like a production Akira feet-forward motorcycle. I thought they'd never make it. They called it the NM4

April 1, 2014 -- Honda announces the NM4 will be available mid-2014 as a 2015 model. The USA market gets the NC700X/CTX700 670cc DCT platform while the rest of world gets the revised NC750X/NC750S/Integra 745cc DCT version. US EPA bureaucracy is probably responsible for the discrepancy. Oh, well. Time will tell.

I've waited my whole life for a bike like this. It's only a matter of when, not if, I will be getting one.

Asphalt & Rubber blog concept announcement

Honda Worldwide site concept announcement

Asphalt & Rubber blog production announcement

American Honda production News Release

Honda USA site -- NM4