The CB1100 Community Forum

Let's share our first reactions to the new CB1100. The first time I saw it in person (I had seen it in magazines and liked it immediately) was at the Moto-Gp in Laguna Seca last summer. The bike was on an elevated stand and I couldn't stop looking at it. I must have went back to the Honda display three times that weekend just to stare at the CB1100. I told my wife that I wanted to buy that bike, and if I did, the first thing I would do is repaint the side cover to match the gas tank. I also told her all it needed was 4-into-4 exhausts to be perfect. Fortunately for me Honda has repainted the side panel, and added a second pipe to the LH side because I am waiting on my 2014 deluxe that I have a deposit on.

2014 CB1100 Deluxe (on order)
1998 VFR800
2007 YZ250
1977 RD400
1976 CB750F

I remember when the furor over them was released back in what, 2009? The pain of learning they wouldn't be released in the States. The agonizing wait to see if they would come to our shores. I know I even signed a couple of petitions in that time to American Honda, pleading with them to get that bike here. Due to the long wait, by the time they were brought here, the thrill had gone. But over the past year it came back with a vengeance, and I'm glad it did at this time cause I like the 14 Deluxe better and am in the position now to buy it. Which I did!

I've never seen one in person. But I'd been working towards finding a clean 74 CB 750 for about a year. I was waiting in vain for the prices to drop-the 750 I want in nice condition is selling for around $5-6 grand. Then I took a close look at the CB1100 and realized that is my smart choice. I waited to see the 2014s and they corrected all the things I wanted it to have-4 into 2, 6 speed gearbox, larger fuel tank.
Now I am like you, Dave-I keep staring at it online waiting for mine to get here!

I just kinda started looking at motorcycles again after being without one for 5 years and not really riding my Ninja the previous 10, but I had the itch.
Snuck up to a Triumph dealer, sat on a Bonneville, was thinking about going back for a test ride.
One day at lunch, wlaked in the Honda/Kaw/etc dealer to just look around, even mopeds, just wanted something to ride around on, saw the Susuki 250?, cool but small, than walked by the CB1100 .............asked about it, fell in love with it, could not get it out of my mind, kinda warned my wife I was going to get a motorcycle again, fought with myself for days!!!!! Than went back in paid cash and left with it. Love it, glad I did it, having a lot of fun on it.

The first photos of the concept bike displayed at the show in Tokyo back in 2007 instantly caught my attention.



I loved every aspect of the color combination Honda chose for that concept bike and I was so excited when we received that same basic scheme here in the States for 2013. Of course the production models were a bit more sedate looking, but maintained most of what I liked about the concept design along with a few improvements to my eye.

I was so excited by the CB1100 that I placed my deposit on the very day that Honda announced they would be bringing it to the States. Shortly afterward I started this forum in honor of such a work of art. I didn't get to see one in person until the day I went to pick mine up at the dealer (the first time I've bought new bike).

I knew I had to have it the first time I saw it (in print). I saved every full size picture of the bike I could find, and set up a slide show desktop background on my PC that I looked at for months. I was with my wife when the 2013 finally hit the local dealer's showroom, and within 2 weeks we were proud new owners.

I have actually been following the development of this prototypes since the first modern prototype was shown at the Tokyo show in 2000

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at that time it was a 750 and never made it to production. In 2007 they showed a second prototype, which was very aggressive, then in 2009 a third prototype very close to what was released in 2010 in Japan and Australia. I vowed if it ever came to the US I would have one. In November 2012 the word leaked out that it was coming and I went to my dealer (who BTW had no idea it was coming) and told him the first CB 1100 he got was mine. He said it wasn't coming but I said, remember what I said, the first one is mine. Two weeks later he called and said he got the word from Honda and it would be in around late March or April. In the meantime the magazines started coming out with tests and they were all glowing. I think I have all the magazines it was tested in but MCN. March 29 I picked mine up.

Wonderful motorcycle. I joined this forum the day it was started (member#6 I believe). I put 7035 miles on my 2013 and traded it in on a 2014 Deluxe, which is looking a lot closer to the original 750 prototype. Especially when I put the gaiters on my 2014. Just waiting for it to get here.

While that ^^^^^ looks a little closer to retro CB750 styling, I also think it looks a little cartoonish. Almost as if it were making a mockery of the original CB750. I'm glad Honda didn't produce that bike. I'm thankful for the one they did. (Especially the 2014 DLX!) I like that the production bike takes styling cues from more than just one classic Honda and melds them all into one sexy looker that catches the eye as much as the originals did!


BTW Mickey, you're # 8, I'm # 565. If you hover your mouse pointer over your user name, look to left hand bottom corner of the narrow gray bar. The last number that appears there is your member #.

(03-01-2014, 10:41 AM)Damfino_imp Wrote: [ -> ]While that ^^^^^ looks a little closer to retro CB750 styling, I also think it looks a little cartoonish. Almost as if it were making a mockery of the original CB750. I'm glad Honda didn't produce that bike. I'm thankful for the one they did. (Especially the 2014 DLX!) I like that the production bike takes styling cues from more than just one classic Honda and melds them all into one sexy looker that catches the eye as much as the originals did!


BTW Mickey, you're # 8, I'm # 565. If you hover your mouse pointer over your user name, look to left hand bottom corner of the narrow gray bar. The last number that appears there is your member #.

Hmm doesnt work on my pc. Nothing comes up in gray bar..no numbers at all.

I had been without a bike for 8, maybe 9 years. The itch for another bike started a couple of years ago, and intensified about a year ago. At first I perused used bikes, the new ones, for the most part, just don't excite me. I was not sure exactly what I was looking for, but I was hoping to maybe find an old Z-1/KZ1000, or a nice Honda inline four that was in decent condition.

Ferret said in a previous post somewhere that his favorite motorcycles always seem to be Japanese inline 4's. We share that, I am the same way. I have owned singles, twins, triples, and 4 different inline 4's, some of my bikes were two strokes. The inline 4's have always been my favorite.

The first time I saw the CB1100 in print was in Motorcyclist Magazine's "First Look" review. The retail on the CB1100 was more than I wanted to pay, but I immediately knew in the back of my mind that it was exactly what I wanted. I tried to put the CB1100 out of my mind and went on looking for used bikes. I went to look at a used Versys at the Honda Dealership, and immediately dismissed it, too modern for my tastes. I saw a CB1100 close up and personal for the first time during that visit. I looked at it, sat on it, and it blew me away. I left that day thinking that I really want that bike, but it's more than I want to spend, I also knew that I was not going to be able to talk myself out of it.

I went back a few times, looking at less expensive bikes, new and used, but I kept gravitating towards the CB1100, every time I went to the dealership, the CB1100 was the last bike I looked at, I also spent the most time looking at it. I was considering a Yamaha FZ-09, mainly for the price and the performance, but I didn't think I could live with the styling of the bike. Finally the dealer received an FZ-09, and I went to look at it. I immediately knew that I could never live with the styling, no matter how good the bike was in other ways.

I went to the Honda dealer, and asked for the best otd price on the CB1100, they waived the setup fee, that was it. The salesman told me that they had a CB1100 in for servicing and that the owner was there to pick it up, he asked if I wanted to hear it run. We went to the service area just as the guy was about to leave. I saw the CB1100 in the wild and that was it, as soon as he fired it up, I melted, I knew there was no use fighting it anymore. I went inside and signed the papers. The rest is history.

(03-01-2014, 11:14 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-01-2014, 10:41 AM)Damfino_imp Wrote: [ -> ]While that ^^^^^ looks a little closer to retro CB750 styling, I also think it looks a little cartoonish. Almost as if it were making a mockery of the original CB750. I'm glad Honda didn't produce that bike. I'm thankful for the one they did. (Especially the 2014 DLX!) I like that the production bike takes styling cues from more than just one classic Honda and melds them all into one sexy looker that catches the eye as much as the originals did!


BTW Mickey, you're # 8, I'm # 565. If you hover your mouse pointer over your user name, look to left hand bottom corner of the narrow gray bar. The last number that appears there is your member #.

Hmm doesnt work on my pc. Nothing comes up in gray bar..no numbers at all.

Hmm doesnt work on my pc. Nothing comes up in gray bar..no numbers at all.
The gray bar comes up along the bottom of your browser, the text is on the left side. I am #715
It is odd, however, that Guth is #2, whom is the first? Has to be Guth, right?