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My best Honda Xmas present this year is my new CB1100, from me to me.

(12-19-2015, 01:25 AM)mininsx_imp Wrote: [ -> ]My wife (now ex) got me one of these:

We bought me the CB1100 this year for Christmas. But had to purchase and restore a 1960 camp trailer, as my wife's gift, as part of the deal. Good all the way around!

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(12-19-2015, 09:48 AM)quietguy_imp Wrote: [ -> ]My best Honda Xmas present this year is my new CB1100, from me to me.

Ditto for me! Well at least the wife didn't kill me since she told me I "needed to ride a smaller bike" ..... so I downsized myself from a CTX1300 to fulfill her wishes.

Aloha,
Huladog

(12-20-2015, 04:53 AM)Huladog_imp Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-19-2015, 09:48 AM)quietguy_imp Wrote: [ -> ]My best Honda Xmas present this year is my new CB1100, from me to me.

Ditto for me! Well at least the wife didn't kill me since she told me I "needed to ride a smaller bike" ..... so I downsized myself from a CTX1300 to fulfill her wishes.

Aloha,
Huladog

Congrats on your new ride. I viewed a lot of Youtube reviews and videos of the CTX1300 and was impressed... then I sat on one. Still a beautiful bike but it felt HUGE.

I'm still trying to figure out why Honda took the ST1300 engine, which makes, I think, around 125hp and cut it back so much for the CTX.

(12-20-2015, 09:55 PM)Lord Popgun_imp Wrote: [ -> ]I'm still trying to figure out why Honda took the ST1300 engine, which makes, I think, around 125hp and cut it back so much for the CTX.

Supposedly the torque was offsetting the higher HP, but having that extra HP would have been nice. I have to admit by detuning they really under-stressed an already bullet proof engine so maybe they were thinking it would last even longer than in the ST1300. Dunno.

When I started looking at the CB1100 again I checked the specs and the 1100 isn't that far off from the HP/Torque figures of the V-4 1300. Being a couple hundred pounds lighter and that's why the CB1100 seemed to have more torque right off idle when I first switched to the CTX1300 and was getting used to the clutch feel off idle.

Had to modify a Goldwing clutch lever to have the adjustable lever (like the CB1100 has stock) in order to get the clutch friction point to feel right.

Aloha,
Huladog

I don't understand why Honda replaced the ST1300.

they didnt replace it, the st1300 is still being sold new...

Riko, not in the U.S. unless it's a 4 year old left over. I think 2012 was the last model year sold here new.