The Honda Rebel 1100 (or as we wish they’d called it, the “Super Rebel”) has new versions coming for 2025, say the keen-eyed crew at Motorcycle.com.
MO’s Dennis Chung has spied emissions testing documents from Germany that indicate five versions of the Honda Rebel 1100 cruiser are inbound next year, including the CMX1100A, CMX1100A2, CMX1100D, CMX1100D2, and CMX1100D3. That sounds like a big jump in the lineup, considering we only see two versions of the bike currently listed on Honda Canada’s uber-clunky website—the Rebel 1100, and the Rebel 1100 Touring. But as Chung reminds us, Honda has different letter codes for the twist-and-go DCT models and the standard-shift models, so the lineup probably isn’t growing from two variants to five. It is most likely growing from DCT and standard-shift versions of two bikes, for four variants total, to five variants including a new DCT-shift model.
What could that be? The emissions docs show the engine will see some slight retuning for 2025, at least in the Euro market, but nothing too wild. Perhaps we shall see a bobber model, as the Touring variant appears to be Honda’s attempt to build a bagger (judge for yourself how convincing this is—the paint and trim certainly aren’t up to the made-in-‘Murica competition’s flash, no matter how solid the Honda platform is itself).
Adding more luggage or stripping things down to a bobber configuration would both require work that isn’t covered by the emissions docs, so we really only know the number of bikes, and nothing about the real changes. The full reveal will come on the show circuit this fall, or in the lead up to it, as the OEMs are increasingly harnessing the power of social media to avoid spending big bucks on bike launches in Milan or Cologne at the EICMA or Intermot shows.
Remember that the Rebel 500/300 platform grew over the years, serving as the basis for the SCL500/SCL300 scramblers as well. That seems unlikely in this case, as the new 1100 models are referred to as CMX-series machines. But down the road, it would be no surprise to see Honda selling a big-bore scrambler.
And one last question: If the CMX1100 platform is seeing revisions for 2025, does that mean an updated Africa Twin CRF1100L series as well?
I can’t wait to see what they unveil at the shows! And who knows, maybe we’ll get some surprises that we didn’t expect.
The idea of a bobber model sounds intriguing—Honda has a knack for blending classic styles with modern performance.
Another hideously ugly cruiser with limited capability. Meanwhile, the NT1100 remains unavailable in North America because……?
Surely it would sell more units than the ugly, generic POS described here.