Honda DN-01: Hybrid Motorcycle, Sport Bike, Cruiser, and Scooter Crossover

To drivers, we motorcyclists seem like a unified group.

We’re death-wishing two-wheelers, splitting lanes, cutting to the fronts of lines and otherwise conspiring to make their daily commutes miserable. But those of us who are actually on those two wheels know differently. We’re one of the most segregated communities around.

Cruiser. Sport bike. Scooter. The bikes we choose to ride are often shorthand for the sorts of people we actually are (or at least believe we are), which is why the Honda DN-01 is such an interesting machine. Billed as a "crossover," it blurs the lines between the biggest categories in two wheels, and it does so in a way that doesn’t feel like an abomination or identity crisis.

New to the U.S. for 2009, the automatic transmission DN-01 may look like a blenderized version of Honda’s entire motorcycle catalog, but it is, truly, its own thing.


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