VOL. 50 ISSUE 36 SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
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(Left) The Grom gets full digital
instrumentation.
(Below left) The Grom also has room
for a passenger, though the total
rider/passenger weight limit is 300
pounds.
(Below right) Yes it's got a headlight.
Yes you can ride it at night.
parking lot. The track showed
just how versatile the Grom is…
it also showed that 45 riders of
varying ability (from our very own
teammate Justin Barcia to almost
beginners) could rip off laps virtually all day with only two or three
crashes (one of which was our
very own teammate Adam Waheed of our sister website Motorcycle-USA.com – on his very first
lap: "Pablo, I just wanted to be really tight in front of tight McGrath
and both have a nice metal flake and tight everyone else.")
gleam to them.
While our day with Honda
started with a street ride that
took us from the Torrance HQ to
the beach and back, it was back
at the office where the real fun
took place. Honda organized the
Grom Prix (get it? Play on words,
Grand Prix/Grom Prix, get it?),
a three-rider team race that
took place on a tight and twisty
racetrack marked by cones in
a portion of the massive Honda
The competition was sort of
like bracket racing at the drag
strip, so the timed action was intense with the outcome in doubt
until the very end. Jeremy McGrath's team won (a three-man
effort that included Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck
and Dirt Rider's Adam Booth)
with Waheed, myself and Justin
"please not another third place"
Barcia finishing… third.
But back to the bike… it's one
that you'll want in your garage. Or
on the back of your motorhome or
fifth-wheeled trailer. It's a motorcycle that you can jump on and go
ride - without a lot of forethought or
planning – on a cruise to the store
or a flirt with the inner hooligan that
resides somewhere within all of us.
For the want of a better word,
the newest Honda is Gromilicous.
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