HONDA | TRANSALP 750 | First impression | REVIEW | XL750 

I went for a test ride on one today, what a pleasure. typical Transalp does everything well, I currently ride a Transalp 605 and I am seriously considering bankrupting myself to upgrade

Had my first test ride today and a few things struck me. First it’s pretty revvy but a very flexible engine, it can handle being in almost any gear. Not loads of low down grunt and it does have a fair bit of vibration through the grips and pegs. Wind protection is amazing for a 6 foot person, I was too warm with every vent open on jacket and helmet as I was dressed for my naked bike, minimal buffeting too. Seat and pegs etc. very comfortable for an hour. Quick shifter is excellent better than my KTM was and that was good. Finally it’s a fast road bike, proper fast on the road.

Excellent review! Enjoyed your humour. Cruise control, tubeless tyres and a few extras would make this bike perfect for my needs. Heard last night that my Honda dealer in South Africa received their first Transalp. Can't wait to check it out.

The only thing that puts me off this bike is the fact that it has tubed tyres. Two punctures on my africa twin, vowed never again a bike with out tubeless tyres. Interesting to see if they bring out this option like Honda did with the current AT. Until then will stay with my CB500X (22 model) which i think is great all-rounder.

Yes, you can turn the traction control off completely, you put it in user mode and hold the joy stick to the left for a couple of seconds. Annoyingly, as soon as you turn the bike off, it puts it back on again. However it’s not much of a flaff to do. 😅

Mate, great review. Best real world one by far, so far. Think you've talked me in to test ride 👍 Looking for something that can rough country lane and some gravel/dirt tracks, but good on normal roads too. This appears to tick those boxes. Cheers 😀👍

just a thing mate, you can turn off traction control, is the same as X-adv, just hold UP! and enjoy!! in user mode ofcorse i run my xadv 1 year until discover that hahaha

They (Honda) may have slung the exhaust lower so a full sized pannier can be on the left side. Have a look at a KTM Dakar Rally 450 it's exhaust system is slung low as well and that bike is definitely for off road.

Well that review didn't stop me wanting one...excellent rundown, mate, appreciate it!

When you’re in user mode, highlight traction and hold the joystick in the down position and it’ll turn off

I'm looking for the right mid-size ADV, unfortunately, I'm not feeling it for this new TransAlp. It leans far too much toward road riding for the type of ADVing I'm planning to do. Just by looking at it I can tell there are areas that will need serious reworking and attention before its ready for the back country here in the states.

Great bike except I found bit buzzy around 70mph . But yeh very planted ,loads of fun . Great round town . Great on the gravel . Brilliant suspension . Just that vibration at 70mph ,not sure I could handle that .

Things I didn't like are tubed tires, lack of cruise control and i would prefer a larger touch screen like AT. Tank size is OK for me. I need it narrow to penetrate stationary traffic.

On your recommendation I bought an NC750DCT two years ago from Dobles. OMG you've done it again. Trouble is I've loaded up the NC for touring making it a £10,750 bike! After fettling the ECU I'm sold on the DCT, just a pity the XL motor is not slotted into the NC, now that would be an ideal tourer. 😉

I think it's a good looking bike. I might like the look of the gray one better ,though. You would need a good bash plate to protect the pipes and the oil filter. Great review Mr. Fish!

Like all new bikes,wait a year,see what accessories become available...early pictures, the V-Strom 800 is the one, with Hessler and Trail de Couvert are already developing those!

We only got the 600 for a couple years in the US. I hope we get the new transalp this year.

“ you don’t want to get your run over badge “ 😂😂😂 great vid …..really enjoyed it 👏👏

Honda just announced the release for the US market, black model only, which they state should be a few weeks. I had a deposit on a BMW 750 GS and got hit by the Stop Sale issued by BMW and no known future sale date. So if the Transalp comes in soon will definitely take a look at it.

I’m thinking Honda tried to cover too many bases here, if the bike was designed as an adv styled tourer then it should have had tubliss tyres and cruise control, on the other hand if it was designed as a true adv bike then the exhaust is too low it doesn’t have adjustable suspension and the suspension travel and ground clearance is not good enough. It’s neither one thing or the other to my mind, I’ll be putting my money else where

The next version will have cruise!

in the absence of cruise control and tubeless rims, you'd think honda could have at least specced a bike that's likely to see a few slow speeds drops with a folding gear lever and rear brake pedal. Guess they're trying to pare the retail cost down to the max, given the bike's rivals. Should make for a really nice back lane explorer, rather than anything more gnarly. It's still a 200kg+ porker compared to a trail bike, but then again, who wants to load up a 350 enduro with luggage and tour europe? Hope the aftermarket get behind it with a few choice bits (higher level exhaust, decent drop protection, sump guard etc.) Would be great if one of the UK based suspension specialists develop adjustable cartridges and a quality rear shock, although the stock set-up may well be more than adequate for the type of riding the bike will be mostly subjected to. Test ride for me, next week hopefully :) I reckon someone, somewhere, will eventually figure out a hack for turning TC off, if it can't be done already

If you lift the exhaust, you’ll struggle with panniers. This is an adventure tourer, so will likely often feature panniers. I wish it had cruise control, but they needed to draw the line somewhere. I’m keen.

I'd disagree on the muffler ,having it low makes ,for space for decent panniers . Bike looks good .

Really nice review, I'd like to see a comparison between the transalp and cfmoto 800mt. Cheers

Good down to earth video, saw this at the mcn festival & surprised myself by liking it, the lines from the side are great, but I think honda were a bit lazy with a very nc750? nose/headlamp. Just my opinion. As you own an AT interesting question for me, would you say the AT is £k's more of a bike than the Transalp for it's starting price? If that makes sense 😉 but i guess the gap gets narrower by the time there's a bash plate/ hand gaurds on it, which you're going to want if you do some big bike trails.

The bike has spring preload, the adjuster has 15 turns using 19 mm Box end wrench. PS adjust both left and right forks to the same spring preload.

looking forward to chucking this around the ABR track

Awesome vid/review as usual mate! I don't like the look of the front (never liked the 500 version either) but I'm sure it's as honda as honda gets.

What an awesome review still carnt make my my mind up between Africa twin or this translap for my second bike all best mr fish

I had a feeling you would enjoy that one , i tried the hornet and wow what a bike .. Its almost a shame we have the AT 🤓😁😁

Had the 600 and the 700 rode many miles to and from work... could this get me back on a bike... We'll see. Nice review, thanks.

It's an 80% on-road machine, why tubes? no cruise, a small screen, no air temperature gauge, and no option for a kickstand 21-inch front wheel should be 19. It will sell but what a missed opportunity to sell many more.

Barnaby country. Looks so lovely and hyggeligt in the summer.

Really good video, subscribed! What an absolute beauty of a bike. I am currently waiting for my Hornet to be delivered, and part of me is wondering if I should swap it for this. I actually prefer the looks of the TransAlp to the Hornet, but obv its a very different bike, for a different purpose. I think the white/red/blue livery is swooning me, and I must not be swooned :D

Great video Mr Fish. I think that's an awesome looking bike and I love that paint scheme

Great looking bike, exhaust does need to be higher

From a review on Bennetts "five levels of traction control (plus off)".

It would be good to see you on this with hippo on his 660 for a comparison. Like the hornet I love the sound of it ✊🐟

Well done Honda, you've hit for six, thanks for the review.

Amazed that the old Transalps had a high exhaust and the new ones don’t.

hey I have to choose between 750 honda and 700 yamaha...must be used for light offroad so mostly gravel..I weigh 120kg so I have to have a section made and it's probably expensive...Thomas Denmark

Oh yes that a good looking bike ! And what an engine ! But as far it will be delivered with tube tires I will not pull the trigger

Love the bike,good video,hate those narrow gutted English roads,the national road toll figures must be thru the roof,good luck to all that use them!

It is going to take a lot of sales from the Africa Twin.

I am sorry, how is traction control kicking in on a dry road at 60?

What do we think of the bike? We think it needs tubeless wheels(19/17), cruise control and a square-ish or round headlight.

I really,really want one,sounds great it’s got the XL/transalp looks and it’s somewhere between a big adventure touring and a middleweight? Maybe a super middleweight or lightheavy 10k? Very tempted

Is a pitta to become a stand measurement for underseat storage capacity? Really hope so!

Think this would be my next bike in black. If they made it tubless and added dct then i would be in the dealers

Great review. Bearing in mind you ride the Africa Twin I was wondering if you could share your opinion on what you think might be the better bike for me? I’ve never had an “ Adventure” bike before ( currently ride a Triumph Thruxton 1200r) recently had 4 hrs on a TransAlp and loved it. I’d predominantly use the bike for road use , Sunday rides out with mates, occasional commutes, may possibly do some gravel but nothing more. I prefer the look of the Africa Twin and like the idea of the bigger engine but don’t want to go big just for the sake of it. So the standard Africa twin ( the Adventure Sport is a step too far at the moment) or the Trans alp?

Elle est tellement belle que je viens de la commander et je n'ai pas encore mon permis... You understand my French?

Hey Honda. Tubes? Again? What is the point?

This was such a disappointment to me (the bike not the video) when they announced it. I love the looks of the africa twin, but a slightly lighter bike like the tenere 700 makes more sense for offroad, i was so hoping on a mini africa twin when i heard honda was making a middleweight adv bike. This one though has looks only a mother could love, if she was drunk. So when i get me an ADV bike, for now the T7 is still on top.

I suspect that's going to be more useable than the big brother.... not that I'd know with my dwarf legs 🤣

Nice machine but 12.5k in Ireland means you wont see too many over here. Shame.

Nicely done. I wish they'd announce the US release date - at this rate, the Marshall Islands will get them before we do. I know it's fun hearing Americans whine about "not getting stuff", but man, this waiting hurts, it bloody well 'urtz.

Brilliant review I’ve just got one 👍

Been looking on the Honda website, no option for a center stand? The packs are a rip off aswell... I don't think it's gonna sell, to compromised off road compared to Tenere and compromised on road with 21/18 instead of 19/17 wheels. If they had just done a CB500x with an 80-90hp engine it would have been better. +1 for the vid.

Nice looking machine and sounds pretty sexy! I'd be a bit worried about a rock or log taking the bottom of the sump off where the drain plug is, at 13:38 it looks like it has an extension that's hanging down in the breeze. Horrible design for an ADV bike. Great for draining, not so good for instantly draining! Hopefully a bash plate will cover that up, definitely needed as on pretty much all ADV's. At least the rear peg/exhaust mount is bolted on so could be modded for a different can if needed. Looks pretty comfortable...

So, just like my 2021 Triumph Tiger 850s, Honda has decided to add a service needed notification that pops up on your display when it needs service. On the Triumph, I had to purchase Dealertool to reset the light myself without taking it in for them to clear it. I do my own service so don't want to take it in to clear that. I am interested in the Honda but was pretty disturbed about the same issue being included on this bike. It's like the Dealers have worked it out with the manufacturer to ensure you take the bike in to them for service. Someone please tell me Honda has made it easy to clear that without some device I have to purchase or take it in.

Exhaust is the lowest thing under the engine and that sump looks very vulnerable, hopefully Honda will be making a skid / belly pan, Should be standard on an ADV !

Great stuff, subbed, like to see your opinion on the the vstrom 800.

Great Vid per usual… How does it feel performance wise compared to your AT…. Being 9BHP Down and 30KG lighter? No DCT or cruise control is a bit of a bummer mind..

Ultimately, it's unacceptable that Honda's Translap, Aprilia's Tuareg, BMW's GS1250, and the Tiger models all suffer from the same lack of an overdrive gear, and are geared too short at highway speeds. Why people are ok with not having an overdrive is one of life's great mysteries. We need to start speaking up about this, and stop putting up with 1970's gear ratios on a 2023 computerized motorcycle. COMPLAIN about the engine buzzing at 70mph. 6th gear should be an OVERDRIVE GEAR! NO EXCEPTIONS.

It's a cracking bike ,but I am a short arse so I will be ordering a hornet as soon as I am able.

I heard the gearing is a little longer on the Hornet, maybe that's the reason it feels different.

Front light should have been a dual round light setup, this pointy stuff looks like the crappy KTM praying mantis with a hang over thing we all despise...The other major design brain fart is the exposed exhaust routing, OK for a road bike, NFW (No F$%ing way) for an ADV. For the rest, it has potential. Couple of tweaks and some aftermarket stuff and I would accept being seen with her in public. A little disappointed with Honda for a bland release with not much excitement, reliability will not be an issue, it's a Honda but it lacks that little spark we all wanted to see.

Those one lane roads look suicidal. Bike looks great, just needs some upgrades.

But very nice bike 😊

What gloves are you wearing? 🤔 Edit: Found 'em, Richa Street Touring Gortex found at 21:10. They look better on than in the SBS site.

That sump! What's going on there? Knock that on a rock. Other than that I love it 😍

The Transalp is an amazing machine. One major red flag stands out to me, after reading the comments here, and on other videos. It's the short gearing. People say it's "buzzy" at 70mph through the bars and foot pegs. Now, this could be people who don't understand giant parallel twins, and their inherent vibration compared to an inline 4 cylinder 600cc sportbike. From what I've learned, a parallel twin can never be as smooth as a 90 degree V-Twin or an inline 4 cylinder of the similar displacement. There are a few reasons for this. But the main reason is that parallel twins don't have a shared crankpin, the crankshaft is much wider than a 90 degree V-Twin engine with it's single crankpin. A 90 degree V-twin is really a completely different engine, it has it's pistons nearly inline with each other, on the same longitudinal axis, because the connecting rods are sharing the same crankpin. A V-twin won't have the rocking vibration to the same degree if at all, because the single crankpin is applying the firing pulses near to the absolute center of the engine.

Can you please send me the location of the dirt road you were on.. I appreciate it thank you.

The rims are also a big problem beside the exhaust- they aren’t tubeless. I’d add a topbox and a Center stand. Last Honda XLV750 adventure bike I owned had shaft drive which I thought was brilliant. No messy chains.

Would you be concerned driving the Transalp with a tubed tyre?

Cool brilliant review thank 🙇

Great review. thanks!!

The old faithfull vstrom 650 has higher exhaust

Low muffler and no engine cover is a rather bad idea for off-road driving

Hey fish, I know you used to have a 500x. Is this a good upgrade from the 500 and do you think it serves the Transalp name well?

Exhaust down low, why ?......

pretty much everyone i know calls these Translap, without realising they do it

tank you for your review:)

Just one question….. is it right that the dash doesn’t have a temperature display? ( as in the weather temp, not the engine temp)

Enjoyable video just subscribed but not keen on looks definitely agree on positioning of exhaust bike looks bland to me as you say, safe

@30:16 rear tyre's tubed

Does it have a power outlet?

Mi piacerebbe sapere se il motore scalda, grazie.

Will DCT be available?

so is it a bigger CB500X or a different version of the NC750X ?? 🤔🤔🤔

The Price £8200 well that the price in America and Canada < come on Honda UK pull your socks up

Not sure what game Honda is playing, nowhere to be found on the US or Canadian websites, it does not exist apparently....

Great review, I would by this bike in a twink, but with tubed tyres it is absolutely a NO NO. !!! Should also come with a centre stand, cruise control and a 20 litre tank as standard. Honda get your finger out.

Tubed tyres and no cruise kill it for me.

I wonder what the new 800cc Suzuki will be like.

And again, Honda gives the US the middle finger - not available here. Yet anyway.

Don't like the look of her. Think the Africa is better and the Triumph looks great. I'd say the handling etc is comparable, they all know how to do that.

Did you ever figure out how to turn off the tc off . Lol 😂

Tail pipe 👎🏻