Although they share the same motor with the XR650L, they are more closely related to the NX650 Dominator. When the Dominator was pensioned off in 2000 it had 45bhp, it came back briefly as the FX650 Vigor, looked horrible and only had 37hp to meet emissions regs - nobody bought it. Honda then dressed it up in fancy clothes, gave it cheap and nasty USD forks and SM wheels and called it the FMX650, still with a lowly 37hp, and that's at the crank - expect a mere 30 at the rear wheel! (That'll be why it felt slow for a 650.)

I had an NX650, and it was a good bike in its day - but that was 1989! The FMX is 80s tech, detuned for the 21st century. They unsurprisingly never sold many of them (you can see why if you've ridden one) and the plug was pulled.

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