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Sorry, whitewalls are a no-go for me. Btw I would sacrifice few HP for a shaft drive on a CB...

(03-31-2015, 04:36 PM)VTR1000F_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Sorry, whitewalls are a no-go for me. Btw I would sacrifice few HP for a shaft drive on a CB...

I wouldn't - for a simple reason.

It would deviate from its model, as a re-creation of the CB750.

Now, if Honda would see fit to re-release the CX500, with its water-cooled V engine and shaft drive...I'd be right there. Guess I'd have FOUR bikes...

I thought there was some more discussion about those tires other than the thread referenced by Cormanus, but I can't remember where. I'll have to do some searching later unless someone else finds it.

Jerry, you could try PM'ing Vic. Maybe he will respond.

(03-31-2015, 04:21 PM)jerrycon_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks, Cormanus. Vic's CB1100 does have the look I'm going for, and those whitewalls do look good even on the red bike. Well-done, Vic in Sydney. Great minds think alike.

Vic, if you be present, might I be so curious as to ask what tires you used exactly? My hour-long Internet search came up fairly empty. Did you perhaps go with sizes other than 110/80 and 140/70?

(03-31-2015, 01:55 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: [ -> ]I thought someone on the forum had done it. They'd been
See [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2518]here.

I believe he said the dealer painted them for him. Let me see if I can find it.

Post 11

[url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3738&page=2]http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread....738&page=2

also posts 16 and 18 here

[url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2495&page=2]http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread....495&page=2



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I was hoping this was an April Fool's Day prank. LOL!

Lol it IS April 1st isn't it? No this ones for real.

LOL, I have white walls on my Softail and they are appropriate

(03-31-2015, 04:42 PM)JustPassinThru_imp Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-31-2015, 04:36 PM)VTR1000F_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Sorry, whitewalls are a no-go for me. Btw I would sacrifice few HP for a shaft drive on a CB...

I wouldn't - for a simple reason.

It would deviate from its model, as a re-creation of the CB750.

Now, if Honda would see fit to re-release the CX500, with its water-cooled V engine and shaft drive...I'd be right there. Guess I'd have FOUR bikes...

I wouldn't - for a simple reason.

It would deviate from its model, as a re-creation of the CB750.

Now, if Honda would see fit to re-release the CX500, with its water-cooled V engine and shaft drive...I'd be right there. Guess I'd have FOUR bikes... I'd prefer the GB500, but the CX in the 650 format, would be very cool.

Thanks, Ferret. I'll stop my fruitless searching. That time will be better spent researching how to paint my own whitewalls. Hmm... Maybe even a checkerboard pattern?
Here's one from 1968 (car). Not quite what I'm thinking of, but sort of the idea: