The CB1100 Community Forum

I have read how some of you have ridden for decades and have owned multiple bikes. I have also read how you have enjoyed those air-cooled Honda 4-cylinder legends from the 70s and 80s so here you go. A short story from Flipboard and a Craigslist link to boot embedded in this short article if you got the itch to 'be young again' with old technology...

1983 Honda CB1100F in its rare near original form, and it's for sale in Georgia from its original owner if you wanted the 30 year old precursor to our current CB1100.

Article:
http://flip.it/FKlBli

Craigslist (in case the article link fails):
https://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/mcy/6071750261.html

(04-11-2017, 11:02 AM)stateboy_imp Wrote: [ -> ]I have read how some of you have ridden for decades and have owned multiple bikes. I have also read how you have enjoyed those air-cooled Honda 4-cylinder legends from the 70s and 80s so here you go. A short story from Flipboard and a Craigslist link to boot embedded in this short article if you got the itch to 'be young again' with old technology...

1983 Honda CB1100F in its rare near original form, and it's for sale in Georgia from its original owner if you wanted the 30 year old precursor to our current CB1100.

Article:
http://flip.it/FKlBli

Craigslist (in case the article link fails):
https://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/mcy/6071750261.html

Wow! Beautiful!

I could be wrong but I remember this bike up fs back in Jan 2016 when I was looking for one
Iirc, it was selling around $7500. The one I was about to buy was a blue one and about same mileage but priced at $5800 from an ohio dealer. The title hadn't been transferred over to owner, so I was on the fence with pulling the trigger. Then at the laSt minute, I learned of the 2013 cb110 in existence and from there learned about the rare dlx, and decided to buy the dlx. I can see myself owning this cb1100f, but having owned a red one in conjunction w a blue one in the past, I just don't have much love for the red. So I think I'll pass on it for now. The lucky buyer of this one is getting a smoking deal!

(04-15-2017, 06:26 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: [ -> ]

The one I posted above shows a price of $6,500 (7,100 miles, original owner). Here's one in Michigan for $5,000 (9,900 miles, looks like more than one owner but also well kept).

https://lansing.craigslist.org/mcy/6090261229.html

I've never ridden the CB1100F, although always fancied one.
To those who have ridden both, is the CB1100F much different to the current CB1100?

I owned an 1100F for 10 yrs, and the DLX for 1 yr now.
I would say, yes, they're vastly different bikes.
The 1100F seat height is a couple or more inches higher, so this bike was way too tall for me.
The DLX seat height is much lower, so I feel so much more confident riding the DLX and making sharp u turns w/o even putting my foot down.

1100F accelerates very hard, just explodes and screams right up to redline w/ no hesitation. IT's a brutal beast from what I remembered. Wind out 1st gear, and the front wheel is off the ground. shift into 2nd (@55 mph) and wind it out, front wheel will pop back up. By the time I shift into 3rd, I'm doing 95 mph. It easily pulls wheelies. This don't happen on my DLX.

But, the DLX outhandles and outbrakes the CB1100F. Braking power on the DLX is so darn strong!

And the 1100F'sfuel economy was poor. I don't think I was getting over 100 miles to a tank of gas. 25 mpg was it, I think.

The 750 F was the most popular, the 900 F probably the best bike of the series, and for the time the 1100F was just too much. Also by then Suzuki was crushing it with the GS series

^ Exactly. And then the V45 Interceptor came out and rocked the world, at least until the Ninja 900 showed its face a few years later.

If you weren't a part of the motorcycle scene back then it's hard to imagine how brutal the CB1100 was. It's hard to imagine 108 hp being brutal, but back then the locomotive rush to 108 hp seemed like it was going to rip your arms out of their sockets. Now anything with under 100 hp ( like our beloved CB1100s) is considered gutless. Oh how jaded we have become. You have to wonder what it's going to take to make todays 175 hp bikes seem gutless to future generations of motorcyclists, and if history is any indication something will.