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BNJ Powersports
BNJ Powersports is a family-owned business located in upstate Vermont and Connecticut, dedicated to the great Honda CR500 dirt bike.
It was started by three people with a passion for riding motor bikes in April of 2022. You won’t meet more passionate dirt bike enthusiasts anywhere. We love riding them, fixing them, building them, and buying them. Maybe we like buying them a bit too much. 😉
Those are the important facts about us, but why talk about us when we can tell you why we love the Honda CR500 and what we’re doing to preserve its legacy?
The Honda CR500
We’re giving fellow enthusiasts the ability to buy a new CR500.
No, we haven’t twisted Honda’s arm to start producing it again.
We’re taking that responsibility on ourselves.
You see, BNJ Powersports is working on mass-producing new CR500s.
You can buy a CR500 with no work needed and no cobwebs to blow off, either!
We can also take other bikes and convert them into CR500s, which is an objectively awesome thing to do with an otherwise mundane bike.
What’s So Great About CR500s?
If you weren’t around in the early 80s, you might not believe a 50+ horsepower dirt bike is that big of a deal. That being said, though, you have to remember what other dirt bikes were like at the time. Anything over 50 horsepower was considered monstrous back then, only for Honda to come in and drop a 491-cc hammer on the dirt bike community.
The CR500 wasn’t some kind of bike that was pushed to its limits and practically on the verge of exploding — it had all the reliability and durability you’d expect out of a Honda — but it was a demanding bike to ride. It had a top speed of 93 mph and required some immense bravery to hit that. Thankfully, from ‘87 onward, it came equipped with dual disk brakes.
Altogether, the CR500 was a beast compared to any other bike out there, and it retailed for under $2,600. Wouldn’t you like to go back in time and be able to plunk down that cash for such a machine?
Resurrecting the Legend
As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end, and Honda discontinued the CR500 model following the 2001 model year, replacing it with the CRF450. If you’re anything like us, you know it just wasn’t the same experience, which meant we were left pining for the bike we loved.
Though it’s true that the technology of these bikes started shifting in favor of four-stroke, smaller-bore engines by the early 90s, there just wasn’t anything like the explosively powered, unbelievably agile CR500. Sure, there were other great large displacement bikes like Kawasaki’s KX500, but there can only be one king, and we know who we think deserves the crown.
With more than 20 years behind us since the last CR500 rolled off the assembly line, it’s about to get a new lease on life. You see, BNJ Powersports doesn’t believe that legends have to die. A whole new generation is about to find out why the CR500 truly is the Greatest of All Time.