The Honda Africa Twin - from my biased point of view - one of the best consumer bikes of the 20th century. Almost indestructible and with a motor that is known to go for over 300'000 km, without having to open it once. I bow before the brilliant Japanese engineers that created this mechanical wonder (XRV650 and XRV750) in the image of the four times Paris-Dakar winner model NXR-750. During the nineties, an armada of teams competed in the Dakar Rally with Africa Twins, because the machines are very reliable even under extreme conditions.

I bought this machine 2013 in Switzerland with only 36'000 km from a private vendor, who imported it from Germany. It's a RD07B from 1996. Originally the German RD07B models were reduced to 50 PS (37 KW) by reducing the cross section of the intake socket. Fortunately this was the only procedure that had to be undone in order to get the full 60 PS (unlike the Austrian models), and it was the first thing that the original buyer did in 1996.

All further modifications I did on my bike are listed below with the newest on top. At the end of the page you can find further technical details and the difference of my RD07B compared to the earlier RD07.