Honda rolled out its Grom 125 alee of 2022 with a scattering of improvements to go along with a reworked, retro-styled trunk. Information technology carries a new transmission ahead of a cleaner engine in terms of emissions, and sports a larger fuel tank to extend the good times. In spite of its new look, information technology's nonetheless readily recognizable as a Grom 'cause the monkey-bike charm notwithstanding shines through to make that crucial connexion to Honda'due south own rich history and the 1963 model that started it all.

Specifications

  • Model: 2022 - 2023 Honda Grom
  • Engine/Motor: single cylinder

Honda Grom Design

- Reworked, retro-styled design- LED lighting- LCD instrumentation- Larger fuel tank- Congenital with customization in mind

The Grom was just almost due for an update – information technology'south the first since a minor once-over dorsum in 2017 – and the pattern team took that as an invitation for a adequately major renovation. Rather than trying to make it await sort of similar a CB model that someone left in the dryer a fleck besides long, the Grom goes its own manner with new fuel tank covers over the larger, i.6-gallon tank (boosted from 1.45-gallons) along with side covers for a fresh new look. Non only are the components modular-looking at a glance, but they are hands removed from the frame to brand life easier for the budding custom-bike builders out at that place.

While the forepart fender remains the same with foil-shaped uprights that acts as lower fork fairings, the mill moved the collision-style forepart plough signals from the sides up to the top of the cyclops LED headlight housing to fix the front end apart from its forebear. Also revised for this twelvemonth is the LCD musical instrument console that has been expanded to include a bar-style digital tachometer alongside a gear-position indicator.

Coma treatment touches on the mirrors, handlebar, and triple-tree along with the frame, engine, rear mudguard, hugger, and frazzle. The chunky-looking tank encompass utterly abandons its CB-inspired roots and goes all-in with the new program. Behind information technology, the subframe mounts a bench-style seat that places both pilot and pillion on a similar plane and does away with the stadium seating of the previous model. No dubiety that's meant to unleash greater range of motion for fore-and-aft torso English more passenger comfort.

Out dorsum we notice a philharmonic mudguard/plateholder similar to the 2020 version with taillights and blinkers mounted at its root to complete the package. Honda lets yous mix-and-match through a full line of bolt-up components to make it piece of cake to make information technology your very own.

Honda Grom Chassis

- Agile handling- Low seat height- Optional lean-sensitive ABS- Plush ride

The standing structure on the Grom is a mono-courage frame that relies on tubular steel members and a square cantankerous-department backbone for its strength and rigidity with a yoke-style swingarm to complete the bones. Every bit for the stems, the front stop floats on a fix of 31 mm usd forks that saw a weight reduction last year, only runs with fixed damping and preload values at both ends right forth with the single coil-over monoshock. Suspension travel is reported at 4.iii-inches and 4.one-inches at the front and rear, respectively, and so you tin can count on skillful street manners with some tolerance for the rougher roads within your local urban jungle.

To residual the wheel bore confronting the compact body and short, 47.2-inch wheelbase, the manufacturing plant chucked on a set of 12-inch rims with a 120/70 ahead of a 130/lxx to circular out the rolling chassis. The steering head sets a tight rake bending of 25-degrees, and the trail measures out at 3.31-inches long to keep the Grom firmly entrenched at the agile end of the spectrum, mayhap to a fault equally you tin can wait it to exist tender in a crosswind, especially at speed.

Honda offers a pair of Groms with ABS as the key difference between the two, simply that isn't the end of the story. The ABS version also mounts an IMU. This combination allows the ABS to modulate its levels of intervention based on the calculated traction and deliver a remarkable level of technology for such a low-deportation, if not apprehensive, piffling monkey-cycle.

A dual-pot caliper bites a 220 mm front disc with a 190 mm disc and single-piston anchor out back, which should exist enough in light of its 227-pound wet weight; 231-pounds with the ABS and IMU equipment aboard.

Front Suspension/ Travel:

31 mm scope inverted fork/ 3.ix inches

Rear Suspension/ Travel:

Unmarried shock with steel box-section swingarm/ 4.ane inches

Rake (Caster Angle):

25°

Trail:

iii.3 inches

Front Brake:

Single 220 mm disc with hydraulic dual-piston caliper, ABS model with ABS

Rear Brake:

Single 190 mm disc with hydraulic single piston caliper, ABS model with ABS

Front end Tire:

120/70-12

Rear Tire:

130/seventy-12

Honda Grom Drivetrain

- New air-cooled 124 cc unmarried-cylinder engine- Five-speed transmission- Faster than the outgoing model- 9.7 horsepower and 7.vii pounds of torque

Ability for the Grom comes from a new, air-cooled, 123.9 cc thumper that boasts Eu-five emission compliance this time effectually. It has an under-square, long-stroke layout with a l mm bore and 63.one mm stroke upwards from 52.4 mm by 57.9 mm, and a spicy x-to-1 compression ratio that's additional from 9.3-to-1. The mill churns out the same ability equally last twelvemonth with nine.7 horsepower on tap at seven,200 rpm, but it sacrifices some grunt for the sake of emissions with 7.seven pound-feet at 5,500 rpm instead of the fifty-fifty eight pounds from the outgoing model.

The manual packs a 5th gear now and the sprocket was enlarged from 34- to 38-teeth to requite the Grom a claimed top speed of 58.4 mph, a full one.3 mph faster than before, though individual results may vary. A simple SOHC times the two-valve head, and consecration control falls to the 24 mm throttle torso forth with its PGM-FI fuel-injection system that meters the fuel commitment.

Engine:

123.9 cc air-cooled single-cylinder four-stroke, SOHC; 2 valves per cylinder

Bore x Stroke:

50 mm x 63.1 mm

Pinch Ratio:

10:1

Induction:

PGM-FI with automatic enrichment

Ignition:

Electronic

Manual:

Five-speed

Final Drive:

15T/38T; Chain

Honda Grom Toll

Cost, color, and ABS are intertwined. You can score the 2023 Grom in Matte Blackness Metal, Ruby-red Red, or Force Silver Metal without ABS for $iii,499. ABS for $3,499.}} If you lot fancy that lean-senstive ABS protection you can expect to shell out three Bejamins more to cover the difference, and you'd better like Pearl White, 'cause that's the only stock colour for the ABS model in 2023.

Model ID:

Grom125, ABS: Grom125A

Warranty:

One Year Included, Unlimited-mileage, limited warranty. Extended coverage available with a HondaCare Protection Programme®

Colors:

└ 2022:

Matte Black Metallic, Queen Bee Yellow, Pearl White; ABS: Candy Blueish

└ 2023:

Matte Black Metallic, Carmine Cherry-red, Forcefulness Silverish Metal; ABS: Pearl White

Toll:

└ 2022:

$three,399, ABS: $3,599

└ 2023:

$three,499, ABS: $3,799

Honda Grom Competitors

Honda isn't alone in the monkey-cycle business. Domestic foe Kawasaki has its ain entry with its Z125 PRO that hits many of the same blueprint points as the new Grom even every bit it borrows from existing mid-size bikes much like the sometime Grom.

Kawasaki Z125

Kawi's entry looks similar ane of its larger siblings within the naked-sport "Z" family that got left in the dryer way besides long, and the factory stays on that tack with no sign of easing upwardly. With that in heed, it's prophylactic to say that the Z125 PRO has more of a conventional wait virtually it that may entreatment to riders who are treating information technology as a stepping rock to a larger naked-sport motorcar. The hardware is similar across the board with non-adjustable break and disc brakes, only the Z125 falls backside in the electronics and safety department with its total lack of ABS protection, let alone the corner-sensitive variety carried by the Grom.

Kawasaki falls behind a piffling more when nosotros consider the claimed ability figures that shows the Z125 with 7.1 pound-feet of torque against 7.7 pounds o' grunt from Honda's lump. The Z125 has a four-speed transmission to leave that 5th gear for the Grom alone to solidify Honda'south atomic number 82, but if you were expecting the cost to mayhap be a factor, you tin can forget it. At $3,299 MSRP, at that place is no money left on the tabular array confronting the non-ABS version at any rate.

Read our full review of the Kawasaki Z125PRO.

He Said

"Ya know, at the top end of the food chain, the naked-sportbike genre is a game of inches with only slight advantages to be had between the apex predators who lurk there, but it'due south a piddling surprising to find the same sort of margins at the very bottom of said chain. Honda seems to be the only marque to diverge from the Grom'due south shared design so it'll be interesting to see how that pans out given that the Honda is less-usual looking but clearly a bit more bike for the buck."

She Said

My wife and fellow motorbike author, Allyn Hinton, says, "The Grom was released in overseas markets first and finally made its way to the U.S. market for 2022. The lilliputian Grom is finally growing upward. No, I don't mean getting bigger, I mean getting more than refined. Honda sees the interest in the Grom and is catering to a more grown-up audience. Increased customization possibilities, a new engine, and adding a fifth gear for better cruise-ability means the Grom can be taken seriously at present instead of being a novelty. I like it. I wanna ride it similar I stole it, smiling and giggling the whole way."

Honda Grom Specifications

Engine & Drivetrain:

Engine:

123.9 cc air-cooled single-cylinder 4-stroke, SOHC; two valves per cylinder

Bore x Stroke:

50 mm x 63.1 mm

Compression Ratio:

ten:1

Induction:

PGM-FI with automatic enrichment

Ignition:

Electronic

Transmission:

Five-speed

Final Drive:

15T/38T; Chain

Chassis:

Front Suspension/ Travel:

31 mm telescopic inverted fork/ iii.ix inches

Rear Suspension/ Travel:

Single shock with steel box-department swingarm/ 4.i inches

Rake (Caster Angle):

25°

Trail:

3.three inches

Forepart Brake:

Single 220 mm disc with hydraulic dual-piston caliper, ABS model with ABS

Rear Brake:

Single 190 mm disc with hydraulic single piston caliper, ABS model with ABS

Front Tire:

120/seventy-12

Rear Tire:

130/seventy-12

Dimensions & Capacities:

Wheelbase:

47.2 inches

Seat Height:

xxx inches

Fuel Capacity:

i.six gallons

Curb Weight:

227, ABS: 231 lbs

Fuel economy:

166.5 mpg

Details:

Model ID:

Grom125, ABS: Grom125A

Warranty:

Ane Year Included, Unlimited-mileage, express warranty. Extended coverage available with a HondaCare Protection Plan®

Colors:

└ 2022:

Matte Black Metal, Queen Bee Yellow, Pearl White; ABS: Candy Blueish

└ 2023:

Matte Black Metallic, Cherry Red, Forcefulness Silverish Metallic; ABS: Pearl White

Toll:

└ 2022:

$iii,399, ABS: $3,599

└ 2023:

$3,499, ABS: $3,799

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