The year is 1993, and your brand new Honda XR650 is just about the most capable thing on two wheels. Twist the waffle grip and you’ve got nearly 40 hp on tap from the carbureted 644 cc thumper, and the speedometer needle will tickle 100 mph if you’re brave enough. Weaving through the masses of Pontiac Bonnevilles and Chrysler Lebarons, you make your way to the gravel, where the XR will take you further than anything else with a license plate.
Blink for a second, and it’s 2023. The world has changed, and the Bonnevilles and Lebarons are gone. But the XR650 is still here, and isn’t going anywhere. Celebrating 30 years of nearly unchanged production, here’s to Honda’s unkillable XR650.…