First introduced in 2013, the Honda CRF250L enjoys a displacement bump for 2021. Accordingly, Big Red’s smallest street-legal CRF model is now called the CRF300L to reflect the approximate 15-percent engine size increase.
Honda’s goal with the CRF300L was to increase power, improve off-road performance, and reduce weight. Big Red sought to accomplish that by upping the displacement by 36cc, adding suspension travel and ground clearance, and decreasing the overall weight by a claimed 11 pounds. According to Honda, the weight loss was achieved by optimizing the plate thicknesses and tubing sizes on several components, following the careful application of computer-aided engineering analysis.