2024 Honda SCL500
Key Features
Product Features
Description
In the 1960s and early 1970s, the legendary Honda CL350 and CL72 scramblers were some of the most popular bikes in the world. They were light, fun, and sized right and offered a user-friendly power delivery. And now we're introducing a new street scrambler-style machine that's just as much fun, The Honda SCL500. We bet the SCL500 is going to be as popular as our original scramblers!
- Single-Cylinder Engine: A liquid-cooled single is the perfect choice for a bike like this. It's light, simple, and is quite fuel efficient.
- Double-Overhead-Cam Construction: Honda engines have always been a hallmark of superior engineering. The engine is a perfect example. The double-overhead-cam construction is free-revving, super-efficient, and full of low-maintenance features.
- Rally Bike Styling: The tall windscreen, extra-coverage fairing, and side panels are all marks of a true rally machine. It looks awesome, like our championship-winning Dakar Rally racebikes, and you'll appreciate the extra wind and weather protection, too.
- Dakar-Inspired Bodywork: Featuring bodywork design inspired by our Dakar-winning race bikes, it's not only good looking, but functional too, with smooth transitions between the bodywork elements, tank, and seat, making it easy to move around on the bike.
- Slim Seat Front: The seat is slim in the front, making it easier to move forward on the bike, or to get your feet down at stops.
- More Footroom: The relative position of the engine and footpegs in the chassis give you more foot room, a real bonus when wearing heavy off-road riding boots.
- Polished Black Rims: The black rims look great and are easy to keep clean, thanks to their polished surface.
- Engine Counterbalancer: Because it features a counterbalancer, the engine is a smooth runner. You get the narrow overall width and power advantages of a single, with the smoothness of a multi-cylinder bike.
- Fuel Injection: Fuel injection means it starts right up, even in cold weather. Compared to a carbureted bike, it also helps reduce emissions and enhance performance and fuel efficiency.
- Integrated Rear Master Cylinder: We've integrated the rear brake's fluid reservoir right into the master-cylinder construction. The design is clean, compact, and tucks in making it more damage resistant off-road.
- Large Sidestand Foot: We gave it a large sidestand foot. It seems like a small detail, but you'll appreciate it when riding off-road, or even on-road if you need to park in an asphalt lot on a hot day.
- Comfortable Seating Position: With a long, motocross-style seat, you can move forward and back, left and right with ease, helping you navigate changing terrain in comfort.
- Cargo Convenience: Special cargo hooks make it easy to secure a light load to the passenger seat with bungee cords. It's just another one of the nice touches that help make these bikes so versatile.
- Digital Instrumentation: The digital instrument cluster has large, easy-to-read numbers and indicators. You also get a speedometer, clock, twin tripmeter, a tachometer, and more.
- Large Fuel Tank: The fuel tank has a 3.4-gallon capacity, enough for even longer adventures.
- Passenger Ready: With its long seat and fold-up frame-mounted passenger footpegs, it's fully equipped to carry a passenger so you can share the fun.
- Rubber-Insert Pegs: The footpegs feature rubber inserts. It's the best of both worlds: On longer trips, the rubber helps damp out vibration, while the cleated steel pegs still grip your boots well off road.
- Front And Rear Wheels: A 21-inch front and 18-inch rear wheel give you a wide selection of tire choices for everything from serious off-road trail riding to smooth on-road adventures.
- Disc Brakes: Featuring front and rear hydraulic discs for excellent stopping power and brake feel, it's even available with optional anti-lock brakes (ABS). An added plus: when dirt riding, you can turn off the ABS function.
- More Ground Clearance: When we redesigned the engine and chassis, we mounted the engine higher in the frame, which lets us increase the ground clearance to 10.9 inches.
- Inverted Fork: An inverted Showa® fork features large 43mm sliders. That makes it strong and helps add to the excellent handling in on- or off-road conditions.
- Pro-Link Rear Suspension: Thanks to our single-shock Pro-Link rear suspension, it delivers excellent comfort, traction and handling, while also improving rider confidence.
- Strong Steel Frame: The sturdy steel frame is strong and designed to survive in the real world of rough pavement or off-road trails. Plus, because we've fine-tuned the frame's rigidity, now you get even better feedback.
- Engine Type: Liquid-cooled parallel twin
- Displacement: 471 cc
- Bore & Stroke: 67 mm x 66.8 mm
- Compression Ratio: 10.7:1
- Valve Train: DOHC, four valves per cylinder
- Fuel Delivery: PGM-FI electronic fuel injection with 34 mm throttle bodies
- Transmission: Six-speed
- Final Drive: #520 chain (15T/41T)
- Front Suspension: Telescopic; 150 mm (5.9 .in) travel
- Rear Suspension: 145 mm (5.7 .in) travel
- Tires: 110/80-19; Rear: 150/70-17
- Brakes: Twin four-piston calipers with 296 mm discs; Rear: 240 mm disc
- ABS System: Standard
- Seat Height: 790 mm (31.1 .in)
- Wheelbase: 1,484 mm (58.4 .in)
- Curb Weight: 192 kg (423 lb.)
- Fuel Capacity: 12 L
- Colour: Mat Gunpowder Black Metallic, Mat Laurel Green Metallic
- Warranty: 12 months, unlimited mileage, freely transferable warranty; extended coverage available with Honda Plus
Engine
Engine Type | Liquid-cooled parallel twin |
Displacement | 471 cc |
Bore and Stroke | 67 mm x 66.8 mm |
Compression Ratio | 10.7:1 |
Fuel System | PGM-FI electronic fuel injection with 34 mm throttle bodies |
Transmission
Transmission | Six-speed |
Final Drive | #520 chain (15T/41T) |
Chassis
Front Suspension | Telescopic; 150 mm (5.9 .in) travel |
Rear Suspension | 145 mm (5.7 .in) travel |
Dimensions
Wheelbase | 1,484 mm (58.4 .in) |
Seat Height | 790 mm (31.1 .in) |
Fuel Capacity | 12 L |
Dry Weight | 192 kg (423 lb.) |
General
Colors | Mat Gunpowder Black Metallic, Mat Laurel Green Metallic |
Warranty | 12 months, unlimited mileage, freely transferable warranty; extended coverage available with Honda Plus |