Honda CRF300F is Big-Red’s New, Accessible Trailbike

Honda continues to keep its trailbike lineup accessible to the average rider with the introduction of the new CRF300F, a bike that’s built for fun times, not extreme racing.

If you’ve stepped into a motorcycle dealership lately, you might have noticed dirt bikes are getting more edgy and a lot more expensive. Increasingly, off-road motorcycles have been diverging down separate lines for motocrossers, enduro racers, and other high-performance paths. Rarely do you see a dirt bike that’s built for an adult to just go have fun on the trails. That’s where Honda’s CRF-F line comes in.

Most of the CRF-F series are made for smaller, younger riders, but Honda’s CRF250F (introduced in 2019) was made for an adult who just wanted to have fun in the dirt without any racing pretensions. With an air-cooled motor, there was little to break on the bike; electronic fuel injection removed any worries about a carburetor getting gummed up on ethanol, thanks to long periods of sitting (which tends to happen to a lot of adult dirt bikes). The price was accessible, too, even during the COVID-crazy years when dealers were selling like mad. But in 2025, the CRF250F disappeared from North America.

Now we see its replacement, the CRF300F. Built in Brazil, this machine offers a few updates over its quarter-litre predecessor. Those changes start with a slightly larger motor (294-cc capacity). Honda gave the CRF300F an oil cooler, which is a simple, inexpensive way to prolong engine life. Like the earlier 250, the CRF300F is fuel-injected. Although it is new to Canada, this single-cylinder engine has served for a long time in the South American market and has an excellent reputation.

Honda also updated the chassis for better handling. The fork has updated settings to resist bottoming out; the bottom triple clamp and the monoshock linkage are made of aluminum, not steel, to reduce weight and improve feel. The graphics are new, and so is some of the bodywork, designed to look more like Honda’s CRF Performance racebikes.

The price tag depends on where you live in Canada, but you can count on paying around $6,700, including shipping but not taxes. That’s one of the lowest-priced adult-sized dirt bikes you can buy in Canada, and you can bet that Honda will sell a lot of them as a result. Specs are listed below; for more details, see Honda’s website here.