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Offline jakec

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what is the MOST 80s-90 Honda made?
« on: March 26, 2020, 09:47:17 PM »
If you're familiar with something called vapor wave, synthwave, outrun, etc, aesthetics, it's something that became popular again in the last couple years. Basically the crazy designs and colors from the late 80s and early 90s. One of the things that started this off with young people 3 or so years ago was the revival of that design you would see on cups. This one



Anyways, I'm not that familiar with any Honda bikes outside the 1965-1981 range, so I was wondering what bikes might there be that really embody this kinda of aesthetic. I know Prince rode a nighthawk in his movie but I don't think that's quite what I mean, I'm thinking of the color scheme like on the NS50 or the CBR600





The coloring of the gradient on the CBR is almost straight out of an outrun aesthetic image like this



I'm by no means an expert on this stuff and outrun and vaporwave are considered very different, just google and you'll see. However I just think it's pretty cool and I was wondering if there are any bikes out there that are really on trend for this type /era of design.
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Offline Drewery

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Re: what is the MOST 80s-90 Honda made?
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2020, 05:48:16 AM »
My cousin insists on still wearing his 80’s one piece ski-suit in those exact colours of that cup. Ballsy!
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