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Honda Motor Corporation of Japan has registered the right to trademark V4X. Experts believe that this may be hidden under the intention to create a bike that will compete with the Italian Ducati Multistrada.

It is assumed that this would be called bike dual-created based on staff Honda VFR1200.

According to analysts, this is not the ideal machine for that on this basis to create a motorcycle-class dual-sport - so that you can talk about it, the motorcycle must be at least "lose weight" - from the current 267 kg.

However, if Honda will realize its ambitious intentions, then the light can break a bike that will compete not only with the Italian 150-horsepower Ducati Multistrada, but with the German BMW R1200GS.

Rumors that the Japanese company plans to release a motorcycle, appeared before the final version was submitted to the actual bike Honda VFR1200F.

Initially, according to unofficial sources, the new unit planned to baptize Honda VFR1200X, but then this option was dropped.

Despite the fact that for a base for dual-sport does not suit the weight machines series VFR1200, they have a lot of mechanical components, which, by contrast, are ideally suited to this role, experts say.

More than a year ago, insider sources at Honda have confirmed that the project is being developed to replace the motorcycle Varadero, and apparently, V4X and will this bike.

However, development is very slow, despite the fact that the market for motorcycle-class adventure-sport is now booming.

Simultaneously with the registration of the trademark V4X Honda also filed an application for registration of another name - Crossrunner - and it is expected to register around the same set of goods, as well as for the first grade. Despite the fact that this may be due to a completely different project, it is possible that Honda somehow uses this name when you create versions of the same V4X.

At the same time, Japanese sources say that it is highly unlikely that V4X appears already in the lineup in 2011. More likely, it will be the model year 2012. And it is possible that this bike was originally presented as a concept bike - to assess the potential interest of buyers, before moving to mass production. Roughly following the same scenario, which was implemented when the concept of Honda Concept V4 into a Honda VFR1200F.