The CB1100 Community Forum

I had to laugh a lot while watching this very entertaining video. The guy is a real wizard with words. To my surprise it even features the CB1100, which makes me (and you) <almost> a hipster.

Shadetree excelled himself. What a hoot.

I would take issue with his statement that they are good practical motorcycles, the CB1100, and the others in this category are definitely not "good practical motorcycles". They might be like are like a fine wine you enjoy, a great piece of art you admire, an experience to ride that you cannot get elsewhere but practical, not a hope. An NC750X is good practical motorcycle.

(04-07-2022, 07:21 PM)Tev62_imp Wrote: [ -> ]I would take issue with his statement that they are good practical motorcycles, the CB1100, and the others in this category are definitely not "good practical motorcycles". They might be like are like a fine wine you enjoy, a great piece of art you admire, an experience to ride that you cannot get elsewhere but practical, not a hope. An NC750X is good practical motorcycle.

Absolute agreement on both statements.

CB1100 is a solid machine ideal for fun and joy and look good doing it. It is not that practical at being routinely thrashed around every season, every day.

(04-08-2022, 04:38 AM)m in sc_imp Wrote: [ -> ]funny. i bought mine specifically as a practical bike. Guess it depends what you do on it.

So did I, back in 2014. Over the years I very slowly (in some sort of denial) realized limitations in my relationship with the machine.

(04-07-2022, 09:33 PM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-07-2022, 07:21 PM)Tev62_imp Wrote: [ -> ]I would take issue with his statement that they are good practical motorcycles, the CB1100, and the others in this category are definitely not "good practical motorcycles". They might be like are like a fine wine you enjoy, a great piece of art you admire, an experience to ride that you cannot get elsewhere but practical, not a hope. An NC750X is good practical motorcycle.

Absolute agreement on both statements.

CB1100 is a solid machine ideal for fun and joy and look good doing it. It is not that practical at being routinely thrashed around every season, every day.

huh, I didn't realize that

I'd ride it every day, or at least every rideable day, if I was retired or independently wealthy.

So, I'm a solid hipster with both a CB1100 and an air-cooled Bonneville.

Guess I should just leave the office right now and go buy some moustache wax on the way to an independent, non-Starbucks coffee house. If there are fewer than three people on laptops writing a screenplay inside, I'll keep on moving until I find one that has more.

Between the gentrified sections of Downtown Santa Ana, Old Town Orange, Old Town Tustin, I can ride from one hipster neighborhood to another on my way home from work on either bike and not spend more than a few blocks in a non-hipster neighborhood. And, on my way to the museum on Sunday, I'm excited to check out the grand opening of Bike Shed L.A., which is located in the new downtown Arts District, which is so hipster that they might not even let me in unless I wear my Doc Martins and a plaid shirt.

Yesterday, while sitting at a light on the CB300R, a guy on an Indian FTR pulled up next to me. I gave him the traditional helmet nod, and he swung his head away in disdain. I thought he was putting down my diminutive bike. Now I see that he was just unimpressed with its lack of hipsterness.

(04-08-2022, 05:58 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: [ -> ]So, I'm a solid hipster with both a CB1100 and an air-cooled Bonneville.

Guess I should just leave the office right now and go buy some moustache wax on the way to an independent, non-Starbucks coffee house. If there are fewer than three people on laptops writing a screenplay inside, I'll keep on moving until I find one that has more.

Between the gentrified sections of Downtown Santa Ana, Old Town Orange, Old Town Tustin, I can ride from one hipster neighborhood to another on my way home from work on either bike and not spend more than a few blocks in a non-hipster neighborhood. And, on my way to the museum on Sunday, I'm excited to check out the grand opening of Bike Shed L.A., which is located in the new downtown Arts District, which is so hipster that they might not even let me in unless I wear my Doc Martins and a plaid shirt.

Yesterday, while sitting at a light on the CB300R, a guy on an Indian FTR pulled up next to me. I gave him the traditional helmet nod, and he swung his head away in disdain. I thought he was putting down my diminutive bike. Now I see that he was just unimpressed with its lack of hipsterness.

(04-08-2022, 06:01 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-08-2022, 05:58 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: [ -> ]So, I'm a solid hipster with both a CB1100 and an air-cooled Bonneville.

Guess I should just leave the office right now and go buy some moustache wax on the way to an independent, non-Starbucks coffee house. If there are fewer than three people on laptops writing a screenplay inside, I'll keep on moving until I find one that has more.

Between the gentrified sections of Downtown Santa Ana, Old Town Orange, Old Town Tustin, I can ride from one hipster neighborhood to another on my way home from work on either bike and not spend more than a few blocks in a non-hipster neighborhood. And, on my way to the museum on Sunday, I'm excited to check out the grand opening of Bike Shed L.A., which is located in the new downtown Arts District, which is so hipster that they might not even let me in unless I wear my Doc Martins and a plaid shirt.

Yesterday, while sitting at a light on the CB300R, a guy on an Indian FTR pulled up next to me. I gave him the traditional helmet nod, and he swung his head away in disdain. I thought he was putting down my diminutive bike. Now I see that he was just unimpressed with its lack of hipsterness.

I think I reached the apex of hipsterness in mid-2015. Here I am, shopping in a hipster hat store in a very hipster section of Denver. I'm wearing 1980s vintage Ray Bans to finish the ensemble.

At the time, I owned the Bonneville, and a limited-edition R1200R, which was hip enough, but featured vintage coach striping, which put it into front-row parking at the coffee house status.