With wide bars, an upright riding position and a 29.7-inch seat, the Grom is surprisingly spacious. I have to admit, on first inspection I’d assumed that the little Honda would be cramped to ride and seriously uncomfortable over long distances, but as it turned out, I couldn’t have been more wrong. With CT’s office based in central London, most of my time on the bike was spent navigating city traffic a task the MSX is well proportioned for. But that didn’t stop rider after rider from coming over to take a closer look at it. With its funky Japanese styling, miniaturised proportions and low-powered 125cc engine, it’s certainly not cool in a ‘hipster biker’ sense. As I parked the MSX underneath one of the bar’s iconic railway arches, it quickly dawned on me that this modern day monkey bike looked rather out of place amongst the eclectic mix of scramblers and café racers. ![]() You see, what makes something ‘cool’ is notoriously hard to quantify, a thought that entered my head as I rolled into The Bike Shed - arguably London’s hippest biker bar - on Honda’s latest MSX125 (or ‘Grom’ if you’re Stateside). In fact, we might go so far to say that it’s the non-conformist nature of riding that makes two wheels cool in the first place. ![]() ![]() ![]() We might not be proud of it, but one of the major attractions of riding a motorcycle is the fact that it’s long been viewed by society as a rebellious act an image forever immortalised by James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause.
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