Honda NX650 Dominator

I bought my 1995 Honda Dominator new in 1995, and now it has 80 000km on the clock. I have serviced it regularly through Honda dealerships, and although it required the steering bearings replaced twice it required virtually nothing else until now. It has seen many bad dirt roads, river crossings and soft sand, in the Australian Outback and in the mountains, but also many highway kilometers. It's fairing got cracked after hitting a car in South Africa in 1998 and I had to fix it properly now in 2015 as it had become too rattly. The gear lever loosened 4 years ago but I tightenend the hell out of it onto the shaft with a high tensile bolt and it's never moved since. It's completely original. Now the seat has started to crack and the indicators' rubber required replacing these. The only real problems I had were all electrical from gadgets that I had fitted myself. I thought I should sell it after 20 years but can't find anything that's close as good in build quality and weight and performance. There may be 5% extra kW and 5% better fuel consumption but all bikes now weigh more. Eventually I found I can't part from it anymore until it dies...

A great bike. Easy to ride,good control through traffic, a little slow on top end speed, but gets there very fast.

The best ever!!!

honda nx 650 dominator is the best bike ever. Now i have honda xrv 750 africa twin but honda dominator remains my love.

The Honda NX650 Dominator is a very comfortable bike to ride.

The downside is, in my experience the plastics tend to crack.

Overall excellent bikes, reliable and fun to ride.

Great on and Off Road, Recomended. Solid, upright, easy to handle single pot thumper with the bulletproof 650 engine. Not the fastest bike in the world but it will pull your house off its foundations if you ask it too. The engine is a toned down version of the XR650R I think its just a different carb, but still an animal.

Light, manuverable, good value for money. The Honda NX650 Dominator is a really good reliable and cheap to maintain on/offroad tool

I use mine for touring and town work. North west of England to Provence 4 times in the last two years without any problems. Added a gel pad to the seat when recovering, what a difference on 450 mile days in the saddle. Always over 50 mpg and negligible oil use. I have covered 9,000 miles of touring on the same chain and sprockets and fitted tourance tyres which seem to suit the bike. Baglux tank cover and bag and off I go.

Before my Honda NX650 Dominator, I had a Suzuki DR650 for a few years, because I couldn't find a Dominator at the right price. I found it a rather top-heavy bike, which felt a lot like riding an inverted pyramid when you had just filled it up with fuel - always felt like the front wheel was going to tuck under as I turned out of the filling station. The way the large tank fairing totally obscured your view of the front wheel just made this feeling worse. The dominator seems to have a much lower centre of gravity, doesn't have such a big, ugly fairing or screen, and still feels 'right' even when the tank is full - much better. Add to this the same rocket-like delivery of power it shares with the DR, and you have a winner. Really glad I swapped.

I have only owned this bike for 3 months and love it. I was fortunate enough to get it in immaculate condition with only 5,700 miles on the clock guaranteed. I use it daily to travel from Fife to the Lothians, which it does with ease. It is just as much at home in traffic as it is on the open roads. My other bike is a GS500 which cannot hold a candle to the Big Dom.