The gauges are mounted with the tach in the more prominent position which adds to the bike's sporting attitude. All of the controls are as usual for a Honda, which of course puts everything in the right place.

There are ram air intakes on the bike's upper and snorkels running down each side of the frame to the carbs, but they're there just for looks and are not part of a functioning system. It is just a 400 after all. On the practical side, there is an almost cavernous trunk underneath the passenger pad.

The detail on this bike that gets the envy of every sport rider out there is that the passenger pegs are retractable. Everyone knows how uncool it is to have passenger pegs when you don't have a passenger. With these things the bike looks like a single seater racer. Not only are they hidden from view to make the owner of the bike look cool to his biker friends, but when one of your buddy's mom asks you for a ride, you get to act like you'd love to oblige but there aren't any passenger pegs.

The pegs have a little lock tab that is barely in view and, to lower the pegs, the tab is pulled out and then swung down revealing a peg. The peg then swings out into position and that's that. It takes about two seconds to deploy them.