Sitting alongside the firm’s ‘CB4’ concept the Six50 is another machine from the imagination of Honda R&D Europe and shows that the firm is aware of the scrambler trend even if it hasn’t got a production model to throw into the ring at the moment.
Because this certainly isn’t a production bike, and it stands little chance of ever becoming one.
Like the CB4 concept, the Six50 is based on the frame and engine of the CB650F, but with retro-modern scrambler styling and a set of knobbly tyres on wire wheels with the thickest spokes imaginable. Is a four-cylinder scrambler viable? Unlikely, but it’s not really any less useable off-road than any of the new crop of large-capacity twin-cylinder bikes in the same vein.
The blotchy paintwork gives the impression that the whole bike is a pixelated image, and the blocky tyres reinforce that idea, but despite its unusual look a large number of the parts are simply off-the-shelf components from the CB650F and other Honda production models.
While we doubt that Honda will make anything quite like the Six50 available to buy, there’s a hint here that the firm might have ideas about entering the scrambler scene with its own production model sometime in the future.
