2022 Honda Grom First Ride
Jun. 16 2021 Review By Zach Bowman
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The 2022 Honda Grom adds a gear and remains America’s unlikely sweetheart.
This is the land of $100,000 pickup trucks with bed rails that come to your eyebrows. … But Honda has sold around 10,000 Groms per year in the US since the tiny bike bowed in 2014.
A higher 10.0:1 compression ratio and longer stroke help add power down low while maintaining the Grom’s excellent fuel economy.
That makes it one of the best-selling motorcycles in America. … without dinging the bike’s baffling 155-mpg estimated fuel economy…
All right, but none of that explains the draw, how a machine with a cylinder smaller than a coffee cup could woo us all… This thing is a riding gateway drug.
SP trim nets you gold fork legs, wheels, and calipers, plus the red, white, and blue livery.
We spent a few hours ripping around the hills near Barber Motorsport Park in Leeds, Alabama…
When was the last time you blitzed past a cop at wide-open throttle and he didn’t even bother to look up?
At a claimed 227 pounds for the non-ABS model, it weighs next to nothing…
Handsome? Sure. In a sentient vacuum kind of way.
Riding with a group of Groms feels like Mario Kart made real…
An adorable 31mm inverted fork keeps the front end up while a single shock serves the rear…
Depressed? Bored? Take two and call us in the morning.
That’s shockingly little money for the amount of joy the Grom brings to the world…
