Well, I hate to tell you that your wrong. A Honda is still a jap bike.I don' t care what Honda' s copy' s off the great U.S. of A or what color they paint them. Some of our American made cars parts are manufactured in Canada? does that make " the car" Canadan made? yes , no, Maybe. O.K. we have opened a new bag of worms now[ well better run to my boots.