EICMA 2024: Here's What's New on the 2025 Honda Transalp

The Honda Transalp 750 made it to our shores earlier this year, shutting our pretty babbling mouths that Honda isn’t serious about the Indian market. As it turns out, the Transalp impressed the Indian motorcyclists with the package that it is offering and the character as well. However, there’s a new Transalp in town which recently showed its updated face to the world for the first time at the ongoing EICMA 2024. Since we recently received the Transalp, it is safe to say that the 2025 Transalp will make it to our shores sometime next year.

What’s New?

To start with, the face of the Transalp. The outgoing iteration was a little bland in terms of outright appearance. Especially if you see it head-on, it looks a bit plain. A bit like the now discontinued CB500X. While family resemblance is a cool thing but if it comes at the cost of looking a bit old-school in these modern times, it is essential to change things a little. That’s exactly what Honda has done with the new 2025 Transalp. They have changed things. A little.

The new Transalp’s updated face and headlamp cluster now resemble more closely to the Africa Twin. Not the now discontinued CB500X and that is a major takeaway, if you ask us. The new headlamp cluster might be slimmer than before but at the same time, it looks sportier and modern too. Honda has been very diligent in becoming more and more sustainable as the time is progressing and the new Transalp is a testimony to that. The updated windshield is claimed to be not only more efficient than before but more eco-friendly as well. Like other motorcycles in its lineup which have been upgraded recently, the new Transalp also utilizes a material called Durabio for its windshield. It’s a bioengineered plastic created using plant-derived raw material instead of petroleum to reduce its carbon footprint.

It continues to be powered by the same 755cc parallel twin motor which is rated at 90.5hp. Even the equipment levels remain the same as it continues to get ride-by-wire, five riding modes, traction control, and wheelie control. The only tweak worth noting in the powertrain department is the new catalytic converter with an additional oxygen sensor to comply with the latest Euro 5+ emissions rules. While Honda has retained the same frame and suspension components, the bikemaker claims that they have revised damping settings for the 43mm Showa inverted fork and Pro-Link rear suspension.

Rounding off the list of changes is the new redesigned TFT dash, still 5 inches across but it now gets an optically bonded screen to reduce glare and improve brightness. Smart! The TFT dash continues with smartphone connectivity for music, calls, and turn-by-turn navigation, all controlled via the backlit four-way switch on the left bar.