2026 Honda NC750X DCT Review

There’s a great gratification that comes with riding one bike that can do it all—a trusted companion you know better and better with every ride. Lockable integrated storage and our automatic Dual-Clutch Transmission (DCT) make the NC750X an excellent choice for everyday riding.

Review – Key Features – Features & Benefits – Specifications

2026 Honda NC750X DCT: THE DO-IT-ALL’er.

Introducing the 2026 Honda NC750X DCT…

Versatile and practical, Honda’s NC750X has always been an accomplished daily commuter that can double as a weekend explorer, and with important updates for 2025, it’s more capable than ever. Included on the list of changes are refreshed styling, improved brakes, lighter wheels, an evolved dual-clutch transmission and a better TFT display. The result is a combination of versatility, performance and reliability that is sure to help the NC750X DCT retain its status as the motorcycling world’s ultimate Swiss Army knife.

Do it all, and do it well
There’s a great gratification that comes with riding one bike that can do it all—a trusted companion you know better and better with every ride. Lockable integrated storage and our automatic Dual-Clutch Transmission (DCT) make the NC750X an excellent choice for everyday riding. New this year: dual-disc front brakes and a five-inch TFT instrument display with Honda RoadSync compatibility.

2026 Honda NC750X DCT Totalmotorcycle.com Key Features

• 745cc liquid-cooled parallel-twin engine
• Electronic Fuel Injection
• Steel truss frame
• Automatic Dual-Clutch Transmission
• Large 23-liter integrated storage
• Engine Type
  745cc liquid-cooled four-stroke 55º parallel-twin
• Transmission
  Six-speed automatic Dual-Clutch Transmission
• Front Suspension
  41.0mm Showa® telescopic fork; 4.7-inch travel
• Rear Suspension
  Pro-Link® single shock; 4.7-inch travel
• Seat Height
  31.6 inches
• Warranty
  Transferable, unlimited-mileage limited warranty. One year included

Parallel-twin engine
The engine’s twin-cylinder format produces ample low- and mid-range torque, and its 270-degree-phase crank and uniaxial primary balancer make it smooth.

Honda Selectable Torque Control (HSTC)
With Honda Selectable Torque Control (HSTC) and four ride modes, you can choose the appropriate level of performance for everything from dirt to gravel to all kinds of pavement.

Honda RoadSync
Honda RoadSync connects to your Android or iOS device via Bluetooth and the Honda RoadSync app. It allows for hands-free navigation, music playback, as well as the ability to check local forecasts at your destination. Android phones can link for hands-free calling and texting.

Integrated storage
A spacious utility compartment in front of the rider is big enough to accommodate most full-face helmets with a visor and other essentials. It’s secure, convenient, and fully integrated into the bike’s design.

HISTORY
Since its 2012 introduction as the NC700X, this model has enjoyed consistent popularity as a groundbreaking, torque-laden, fuel-sipping twin-cylinder adventure bike with a relaxed riding position (thanks to a wide handlebar and a comfortable seat), compliant suspension and distinctive adventure-inspired styling.

Honda has continuously evolved the bike’s successful, unique formula, with several upgrades over the years. A more adventurous aesthetic was introduced for 2016, along with new instruments and LED lighting. For 2018, it gained a performance boost via a 75cc increase in engine capacity, from 670 to 745cc, along with two-level Honda Selectable Torque Control and upgrades to the Dual Clutch Transmission.

In 2021 Honda improved practicality, do-it-all comfort and handling composure, while also introducing more spirited engine performance and lowering the vehicle weight and the seat height. Throttle by wire and electronic riding modes were added, and the HSTC was revised.

For model-year 2025, the NC750X continues its development path with increased use of sustainable materials in its construction, along with new styling, more technology, refined DCT response and better handling performance. As always, it remains a true Honda all-rounder.

NEW FOR 2025

• Refreshed styling and distinctive new LED headlight exude ruggedness.
• New 5-inch TFT display offers Honda RoadSync smartphone connectivity.
• Application of Durabio™ and recycled materials in bodywork.
• Dual Clutch Transmission has improved starting/slow-speed response, using the same oil-pressure-estimation update as the 2024 Africa Twin.
• New dual axial-mount two-piston front-brake calipers.
• Lightweight “3 by 3” wheels, front and rear.

Updated Transalp and NC750X Lead Honda’s Product Announcement

• XL750 Transalp receives comfort- and convenience-focused changes for 2025
• Improved styling and handling for the NC750X DCT
• Also: Nine CRF Performance models confirmed for 2026 model year

American Honda today announced the return of two standout motorcycles for the 2025 model year: the XL750 Transalp and the NC750X DCT, both of which receive important updates. The ADV category is famously varied, and while these two models share a common class, they represent very different approaches to adventure.

Already popular after just one year on the U.S. market, the contemporary XL750 Transalp is a true adventure machine that is maneuverable and compact, ready to tackle dirt roads and backroads alike. It’s back for 2025 with revisions aimed at improving comfort and convenience, including better aerodynamics, lighting, instrumentation and suspension.

On the other end of the ADV spectrum is the NC750X DCT, long familiar with U.S. customers as an exceptionally comfortable commuter and weekend explorer—and improved for 2025 with refreshed styling, lighting, braking and more.

“The XL750 Transalp and NC750X DCT demonstrate Honda’s ability to appeal to the varying needs of powersports enthusiasts,” said Colin Miller, Manager of Public Relations at American Honda. “While both machines are midsize adventure bikes, each is developed with a different application in mind—and each is extremely effective in its particular realm. That Honda not only offers both options, but has also improved them both for 2025, is just the latest example of our commitment to meeting the demands of any customer.”

Also included in this announcement are nine dirt-focused models returning for the 2026 model year. In the race-winning CRF Performance family are the Baja-dominating CRF450X, the closed-course off-road CRF250RX and CRF450RX, and the CRF450RL dual-sport bike, as well as the motocross-focused CRF450R, CRF450RWE, CRF250R, CRF250RWE and CRF150R.

2026 Honda NC750X DCT Totalmotorcycle.com Features and Benefits

Parallel-twin engine
The engine’s twin-cylinder format produces ample low- and mid-range torque, and its 270-degree-phase crank and uniaxial primary balancer make it smooth.

Electronic fuel injection
With electronic fuel injection, starting your bike on cold mornings is easier, and the engine runs flawlessly even at higher elevations.

Front suspension
You get a perfect balance between a long-distance and a short-hop street machine. This gives it a wide range of capabilities and good handling that helps inspire confidence.

Disc brakes with combined ABS
Now with dual-front and single-rear disc brakes featuring our Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS), you get stronger, more predictable stopping power, even under challenging conditions.

Pro-Link® rear suspension
When partnered with a Honda Multi-Action System (HMAS) rear shock, Pro-Link® rear suspension effectively handles uneven surfaces for a smoother ride.

Steel truss frame
With a rigid and compact chassis that is both light and strong, you get precise handling along with a supple ride.

Cast aluminium wheels
The 17-inch wheels significantly aid in responsive handling. The cast wheels are light, robust, and feature a new design for this year, adding to the bike’s aesthetic appeal.

Honda Selectable Torque Control (HSTC)
With Honda Selectable Torque Control (HSTC) and four ride modes, you can choose the appropriate level of performance for everything from dirt to gravel to all kinds of pavement.

Automatic Dual-Clutch Transmission (DCT)
Our automatic Dual-Clutch Transmission lets you shift with the push of a button, or you can let the bike shift itself automatically. In addition, DCT offers three riding modes, depending on the performance you want.

Throttle-by-wire
Throttle-by-wire (TBW) technology allows for four selectable engine power-delivery modes: Standard, Rain, Sport, and an additional user-customizable setting.

Streamlined cowl
Revised for this year, the bike’s cowl provides ample wind protection and has a fresh, angular design with clean, sharp edges.

Low-profile windscreen
This bike offers just the right amount of bodywork—enough to offer good wind protection but not so much that it feels heavy or wide.

Integrated storage
A spacious utility compartment in front of the rider is big enough to accommodate most full-face helmets with a visor and other essentials. It’s secure, convenient, and fully integrated into the bike’s design.

Under-seat fuel tank
The fuel tank is located under the seat for more centralized mass and improved handling. This unique design also makes room for our integrated storage compartment.

Low seat height
The low seat height helps make this bike more rider-friendly in stop-and-go traffic as well as parking lots.

Extra comfortable seat
If you plan to take longer trips, you’ll really appreciate this seat. It’s supportive enough for precise riding, yet comfortable even when you’re sitting on it for hours.

LCD instrument panel
Full digital LCD instrumentation includes a speedometer, bar-type tachometer, clock, low-fuel gauge, and two trip meters. The tach bar graph also changes color based on fuel consumption, rpm, gear position, and more.

Honda RoadSync
Honda RoadSync connects to your Android or iOS device via Bluetooth and the Honda RoadSync app. It allows for hands-free navigation, music playback, as well as the ability to check local forecasts at your destination. Android phones can link for hands-free calling and texting.

DESIGN/STYLING
The 2025 NC750X adopts a dynamic, tough identity thanks to evolved upper and lower fairings with sharp creases and detail lines. Revisions to the fairings’ structures, and how they attach to the bike, also improve their ease of removal and installation, and ultimately improve the overall ease of maintenance.

Other revisions include a new seat cover with added stitching, amplifying the bike’s premium feel, and a revised cover for the storage area that sits where the tank usually would. A new LED headlight adds a robust frontal signature. The screen also offers excellent wind and weather protection, while slim side panels, covers and a revised tail unit emphasize a “mass-forward” stance. To tailor the bike to individual needs, a height-adjustable screen is available as an optional accessory, as is a new comfort seat, which uses additional urethane padding to provide a more comfortable ride.

This generation of the NC750X DCT makes increased use of the sustainable material Durabio (a bio-based polycarbonate resin), which has now been applied in the manufacture for some fairing parts, windscreen and other components. The NC750X DCT is the first Honda to utilize colored Durabio.

A unique NC feature—the storage area where the fuel tank traditionally sits—has 23 liters of volume, and careful internal shaping allows it to hold an ADV-style helmet. An optional USB socket can be installed (tucked away on the upper-left of the compartment), as can an optional divider that compartmentalizes the luggage space for improved useability.

The new premium, five-inch, full-color TFT screen uses optical bonding to improve visibility in bright sunlight. By sealing the gap between the cover glass and TFT screen with resin, glare is reduced, and visibility improved. The display is customizable between “Bar,” “Circle” and “Simple” display patterns, and it offers smartphone connectivity via Honda RoadSync.

Honda RoadSync, along with a new simplified, easy-to-use, backlit four-way toggle-switch on the left side of the handlebar, allows straightforward, on-screen turn-by-turn navigation, as well as the option (via a Bluetooth helmet headset) for the rider to make calls, listen to music or receive voice feedback of weather conditions. All an owner needs to do is download the free Honda RoadSync app from either the App Store or the Play Store, connect to the NC750X DCT, and go.

A “wave” key features the Honda Ignition Security System (HISS). If the ID chip embedded in the key and the ID in the Engine Control Unit (ECU) do not match, the engine will not start.

ENGINE / DRIVETRAIN
The NC750X DCT’s liquid-cooled, SOHC 8-valve parallel-twin-cylinder engine is designed to offer punchy performance in the low to midrange. Its relatively long-stroke architecture and specially shaped combustion chambers combine with the high-inertial-mass crankshaft to produce large amounts of effortless torque from very low rpm, while a forward cant lowers the center of gravity for optimum stability.

Twin balancers counteract vibration from higher-rpm inertia, for an engine that is not only smooth-running, but has a distinctive “throb” thanks to its 270-degree crank and uneven firing intervals. Bore and stroke are set at 77 x 80mm. Where possible, components are made to do more than one job: the camshaft drives the water pump, while one of the balancer shafts drives the oil pump. By minimizing the number of parts in this way, the engine is kept light, efficient and reliable.

A lightweight, pentagon-shaped muffler uses two chambers joined by a hole-punched link pipe, which works with a final resonator chamber to create a deep, distinctive sound and exhaust pulse. The built-in catalyzer has a two-layer structure for cleaner emissions.

Transmission
In the world of powersports, Honda first offered a Dual Clutch Transmission on the 2009 FourTrax Rancher multipurpose ATV, followed by the 2010 VFR1200F sport-touring motorcycle. Since then, the technology has been offered on Honda touring machines, cruisers, ATVs and side-by-sides. While similar systems can be found in high-performance sports cars, Honda pioneered the use of DCT in the powersports world and has accumulated experience and improved the technology along the way.

Honda’s unique-in-motorcycling Dual Clutch Transmission technology has evolved over the years and offers easy, direct gear changes through constant refinement. As is the case in other Honda DCT models, the system uses two clutches: one for start-up and first, third and fifth gears; the other for second, fourth and sixth, with the main shaft for one clutch located inside the other for compact packaging.

Each clutch is independently controlled by its own electro-hydraulic circuit. When a gear change occurs, the system pre-selects the target gear for the clutch not currently in use. The first clutch is then electronically disengaged, as the second clutch simultaneously engages.

Surpassing the operating parameters of the previous generation DCT, the new version estimates the oil pressure of the clutch piston chamber and completely reviews the way feedback gain is applied (rather than just relying on an oil pressure sensor upstream of the clutch piston), resulting in improved, more delicate clutch response. The DCT also features a dedicated setting for extremely low-speed riding.

The result is consistent, fast and seamless gear changes. Furthermore, as the twin clutches transfer drive from one gear to the next with minimal interruption of the transfer to the rear wheel, any gear-change shock and pitching of the machine is negligible, making the change feel direct as well as smooth. Extra benefits include durability (as the parts are less likely to be damaged via flawed shift-lever operation), reduced possibility of stalling, reduced rider stress and fatigue, and extra mental bandwidth for better concentration on (and enjoyment of) all other aspects of riding.

Through throttle-by-wire control, four automatic shifting schedules are available: Level 1 is the most relaxed, with upshifts and downshifts operating at relatively low rpm; it is linked with the RAIN riding mode. Level 4, on the other extreme, shifts up at higher rpm and also downshifts earlier, for more engine-braking effect; it is linked with the SPORT mode. Level 2 is linked with STANDARD riding mode, with Level 3 situated between STANDARD and SPORT.

The USER mode functionality allows the rider to select any of the DCT shift patterns with the preferred variations of the other parameters—power delivery, engine braking, and HSTC.

With the DCT system, the rider may also choose Manual mode, using paddle-style triggers on the left handlebar to change gears.

Engine Electronics
With throttle by wire managing engine performance and character, there are three modes for the rider to choose from for various riding conditions, with preset combinations of settings for Power, Engine Braking and Honda Selectable Torque Control. (Mode selection is managed between the left-hand switch cluster and the TFT display.):

• SPORT gives more aggressive delivery of engine power and braking, with low HSTC intervention and DCT mode 4.
• RAIN delivers engine power and braking least aggressively, has high HSTC intervention and Level 1 for the DCT shift pattern.
• STANDARD delivers a balanced middle point for engine-power delivery, engine braking and HSTC intervention, plus mode 2 for the DCT.
• USER offers custom options of low/medium/high for delivery of engine power and engine braking, low/medium/high/off for HSTC, and four different shift patterns for DCT.

Honda Selectable Torque Control is fitted as standard. It offers soft, intuitive control as it manages rear wheel torque thanks to TBW, over three levels:

• Level 1 allows the minimum intervention for some rear wheel spin—on gravel or dirt, for instance.
• Level 2 is the default setting and provides confidence-inspiring traction for general riding conditions.
• Level 3 provides maximum intervention, for slippery conditions, and it links to the new RAIN mode settings.

HSTC can also be switched off.

CHASSIS / SUSPENSION
Honda’s development engineers carefully designed the light, strong tubular-steel diamond frame, giving consideration to the battery and airbox locations in order to free up storage space. The riding position is upright and neutral, with a high viewpoint for enhanced hazard perception. This adventure-style arrangement contributes to the bike’s exceptional low-speed handling and balance, as do the low center of gravity and generous steering lock.

Rake is 27 degrees and trail is 4.33 inches, while wheelbase is 60.3 inches. The front/rear weight distribution is 48/52, and the curb weight is 497 pounds (including required fluids and a full tank), contributing to the bike’s prowess on city streets or even longer rides through tight, twisty canyons. Further increasing the bike’s practical performance, the seat height is 31.6 inches.

Suspension
The 41mm fork has 4.7 inches of travel and uses Showa’s Dual Bending Valve design, with settings optimized for both compression and rebound damping. This enables the damping force to act in accordance with piston speed in low-speed compression and rebound situations, improving ride quality and comfort.

The single shock features a spring-preload adjuster system with 4.7 inches of wheel travel. It operates through Pro-Link® arrangement that offers an optimized balance of a soft initial stroke (for dealing with smaller bumps) and excellent control.

Brakes
Up front, the single two-piston brake caliper and 320mm petal-style disc of the previous design have been replaced by dual two-piston axial-mount calipers and 296mm floating discs, offering confidence-inspiring braking power in all conditions. As before, rear braking is provided by one single-piston caliper and a 240mm disc. Lightweight two-channel ABS provides powerful and confident braking, even on slippery or wet road surfaces.

Wheels
New “3 by 3” spoke cast-aluminum front and rear wheels (sizes 17 x 3.50-inch and 17 x 4.50-inch) wear 120/70 ZR17 and 160/60 ZR17 tires and save four pounds, negating the extra weight of the revised front braking system.

Honda ACCESSORIES
The NC750X can be further tailored to the rider’s needs with 22 accessories. Some new additions to the lineup this year include a Comfort Seat, Handguards and improved Panniers.

2026 Honda NC750X DCT – Totalmotorcycle.com USA Specifications/Technical Details
US MSRP Price: $9,499 USD
Canada MSRP Price: $ See Dealer CDN (includes Freight, PDI and Fees)
Europe/UK MSRP Price: £ See Dealer for Pricing in GBP (On The Road inc 20% Vat)

*Includes all standard equipment, required fluids and full tank of fuel—ready to ride
Meets current EPA standards

Models sold in California meet current CARB standards and may differ slightly due to emissions equipment

Specifications subject to change

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Posted on Thursday, July 31st, 2025 by Michael Le Pard