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Honda looks like it’s scheduled to reveal some sort of sports bike - at least to its American dealers – before the end of this month. But there’s no word on what it might be.

The news comes via the enlightening blog of Honda of Chattanooga which brought the heads-up on the imminent arrival of the CTX700 models last week. A day before the CTX launch on February 8, it revealed that Honda’s dealer intranet, Redline, was set to reveal a selection of new models the following morning, evidenced by a graphic from Redline that showed “Feb ’13” would feature the launches of three distinct model types. The icons reveal a tourer-style bike – which turned out to be the CTX700 – a naked cruiser-style machine (the CTX700N) and a fully-faired sports bike. That sports bike has yet to emerge.



The speculation that it could be an early release of the much-hyped MotoGP-replica V4 road bike is further fuelled by the fact that Honda president Takanobu Ito announced the V4’s existence last year at the same time as talking about a new development of the firm’s NC700 range that would appear in America in early 2013.