10-20-2016, 08:41 AM
10-20-2016, 09:02 AM
Saw my first Grom at a Home Depot today.
10-20-2016, 09:16 AM
(10-20-2016, 07:36 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]I didn't start this to bash other riders or their choices, just an observation of various models of motorcycles spotted in my area.sorry if i am the one who came off that way but Motorcycle gangs are very present here and have a bad reputation. much of what i always say will be an attempt at humor but that is just me , i enjoy life and laugh all day.
so if this Redneck rubs a Yank , Left coaster or anyone else the wrong way it is all in fun.
much respect for Asia and Australia.
one observation that may have slipped past everyone is that seldom do bikes grow old in the South! with year round riding weather we wear them out and seldom will you find someone meticulous about care like Ferret here unless they are a transplant. I am the most guilty of all as i never do much more than an oil change on a bikes and it will be a long time till the valves get checked or spark plugs changed.
to prove i am right about this , just check Ebay and see where most of the nice old bikes are located.
my neighbor is from Wisconsin and he says the Yanks up there store their bikes in basements for decades at a time.
Have a few Ducati's and triumphs etc but not many.
never see an old 60's or 70's bike here ever except an older lady who did have a 60's BMW. I would have romanced her if i was single just for a ride on that bike.
10-20-2016, 09:32 AM
If some of what's been written so far is considered bashing the moderators might want to dial the decorum setting back just a notch or two. By ANY standard out there on the internet what's been said here, at least to this point is pretty benign.
During the summer I sit in front of my buddies coffee shop most Sundays from 9-10AM. A few of us on bikes show up there and shoot the breeze while sitting in plastic recliners facing the main road. This is a well traveled stretch for bikes because it heads to the mountains and gives access to some very nice rides.
I can't give numbers because I don't keep them. By far I see cruisers, the vast majority Harleys. I do pay attention to the sportsters because my daughter rides one and it's almost always younger people on them, say under 35. I saw two Sportsters today and both had younger guys on them. At my work a young female 34? rides an Iron 883, my daughter has an Iron 883. This seems to be the trend.
The next biggest segment I see here is ADV bikes. I'm interested in them as well so I pay attention to the riders and makes/sizes. I see a lot of BMW's in this category. Prob evenly split between the 1200 and the 800 motors, followed VERY closely by the bigger KTM's and then well back the KLR's.
Sport bikes of all sizes make up the next segment and my impression this year has been that the retro's are gaining on them somewhat quickly. I've seen LOT's of Triumph's this year, 1 Black CB, and an increasing number of older Japanese bikes being cafed.
The last group is a composite catch all of Victories/Indians/and the odd this and that like Guzzi's (I've seen three total on the road since 2014, one being a V7R in Texas a couple months back).
During the summer I sit in front of my buddies coffee shop most Sundays from 9-10AM. A few of us on bikes show up there and shoot the breeze while sitting in plastic recliners facing the main road. This is a well traveled stretch for bikes because it heads to the mountains and gives access to some very nice rides.
I can't give numbers because I don't keep them. By far I see cruisers, the vast majority Harleys. I do pay attention to the sportsters because my daughter rides one and it's almost always younger people on them, say under 35. I saw two Sportsters today and both had younger guys on them. At my work a young female 34? rides an Iron 883, my daughter has an Iron 883. This seems to be the trend.
The next biggest segment I see here is ADV bikes. I'm interested in them as well so I pay attention to the riders and makes/sizes. I see a lot of BMW's in this category. Prob evenly split between the 1200 and the 800 motors, followed VERY closely by the bigger KTM's and then well back the KLR's.
Sport bikes of all sizes make up the next segment and my impression this year has been that the retro's are gaining on them somewhat quickly. I've seen LOT's of Triumph's this year, 1 Black CB, and an increasing number of older Japanese bikes being cafed.
The last group is a composite catch all of Victories/Indians/and the odd this and that like Guzzi's (I've seen three total on the road since 2014, one being a V7R in Texas a couple months back).
10-20-2016, 10:18 AM
I wasnt admonishing anyone, just didn't want it to turn into a bashing thread, so it was more preventive than anything else.
10-20-2016, 04:43 PM
Here in my part of Germany in Schleswig-Holstein I
have never seen another CB1100 live. Sometimes
I not often saw a W from Kawasaki. These are the
bikes I drive. They pull attraction from bikers and
non bikers wherever they go because they are both
rare and beautiful.
If I'm out for a ride these days, I hardly meet other
motorbikes, which seem mostly be driven during
warmer and dryer periods of the year.
One bike is omnipresent, the BMW GS.
A lot of different Japanese bikes of all kinds,
some more or less customed Harleys and
a few Italian and English ones.
A few people take care and ride their oldtimers,
which mostly create a time warp for the beholder into
the past, both the driver and the motorcycle.
All in all it's a colourful mixture.
Wisedrum
have never seen another CB1100 live. Sometimes
I not often saw a W from Kawasaki. These are the
bikes I drive. They pull attraction from bikers and
non bikers wherever they go because they are both
rare and beautiful.
If I'm out for a ride these days, I hardly meet other
motorbikes, which seem mostly be driven during
warmer and dryer periods of the year.
One bike is omnipresent, the BMW GS.
A lot of different Japanese bikes of all kinds,
some more or less customed Harleys and
a few Italian and English ones.
A few people take care and ride their oldtimers,
which mostly create a time warp for the beholder into
the past, both the driver and the motorcycle.
All in all it's a colourful mixture.
Wisedrum
10-21-2016, 03:29 AM
Have yet to see a CB1100 Deluxe, you owners must be a figment of our imagination 
We are lucky to have a diversified riding community so there's a chance to see something from all categories of motorcycles.
Just in our office we have 4 riders and between us we have (cb1100, ctx1300, dl650, fj09, fjr1300, versys 1000, versys 650, bonneville).
We are lucky to have a diversified riding community so there's a chance to see something from all categories of motorcycles. Just in our office we have 4 riders and between us we have (cb1100, ctx1300, dl650, fj09, fjr1300, versys 1000, versys 650, bonneville).
10-21-2016, 04:26 AM
Wow hb, that quite a neat and diversified collection among you and your fellow employees. Do the others let you test ride theirs occassionally?
10-21-2016, 09:40 AM
Out here in San Francisco Bay Area I literally see them ALL... every type old and new at a few local spots it's like a show Alice's in Woodside CA. I have seen more vintage Hondas and only 3 other new style CB's only one Deluxe . I always enjoy it. Motorcycle enthusiast!
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10-21-2016, 01:48 PM
Well 310 million persons in USA. Estimate 300 CB1100 Dlx models imported. So one in a million! Not going to see on the road often.
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