Here’s some hot gossip from India’s moto-press: According to that country’s motorcycle writers, we are about to see a new Honda CB300X adventure bike (the rumor has also appeared on European bike websites, but the chances are they saw it in India first, like we did).

As you’d expect from the name, and from Honda’s past decade of business decisions, the CB300X is expected to be another recycling project, using the same liquid-cooled 286 cc single-cylinder engine that Honda uses in the CRF300L and CRF300 Rally. Oh yes, and the CBR300R, and the CB300R, and CB300F. While most ADVers are familiar with these engines used in leaner-built dual sport bikes, they originally debuted in street bikes. The CBR250R was the progenitor of this range, and Honda sells piles of nakeds and sportbikes with these engines to this day.

In case you think a 300 would be too small for an X-platform adventure bike, Honda already has aCB200Xfor sale in Asian markets, which looks like a scaled-down version of the CB500X middleweight. Asia, particularly India, has a practically insatiable desire for new motorcycles, and a CB300X would find an eager market there. Indians have been riding small-cc machines for decades, and a jump from 110 cc to 286 cc would make many happy customers.

Here, in western markets? There would definitely be interest. Jaded customers would no doubt squawk about the weight and probably the price, but Honda has no problem selling the CRF300L and CRF300 Rally dual sports despite such talk. There could be some complaining that an X model would be unneeded, considering it would do much the same thing as the CRF300 Rally. That is unlikely to make any dent in Honda’s global sales numbers, though.