Well it's that time of year, hohoho, took part in the annual Reading Toy Run today benefiting Wokingham's Barnardo's, about 2000 motorcycles turned up and took part, all roads between the meeting point and Barnardo's are closed by the Police to allow a smooth ride without the need to stop at lights and junctions, great weather and company and all for a good cause

Always used Super Vista Cruise Controls, but have a KAOKO on my F6B because the Super Vista would not fit, and it works great. So now torn between the two. I think the Super Vista will look good style wise but need a little modification to fit.

Hi
After watching how to do oil change, I decided to change oil today my bike has 700 miles bought the filter and Honda gn4 oil after installing the filter I put 2.5 liter and started the engine for 10 second and then realized I did not put enough oil so I put the whole 4 liter and started the engine for 2 minute and I cannot see any oil in the glass window I have been checking every 5 minute I hope I did not messed up please help Thanks

I thought I might bring this up since I was the one who talked Guth
into a Registry in the first place
I just went through and counted 113 vin. #.

it is a very interesting list.
I see there is about 800 members who have signed on.
It would be nice if we had few more Vin. numbers.
I would be more then willing to come up with some sort of list or
spread sheet.
After all the winters are bitter and the nights long here --
Guth , ferret -- your thoughts
anyone else ---- thoughts

I've wondered how many CB1100 have they sold in 2013.

Anyone one periodically use fuel additives to help with water buildup, I think I saw one at the dealer to offset the ethanol effects and extra water..

Using the search function i only found this thread....

http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread....ht=hid+kit

Does anyone else run a HID kit? I assume we have an H4 style bulb? Any advice pro or con for a kit?

Silascopathetic, how do you like the kit you have? Any issues you ran into?

I've had a lot of bikes over the years, naked and otherwise, and since I've had my 1100 I've thought that the wind noise was not that bad (without earplugs), but I dismissed it as my imagination. Well, I stumbled onto something the other day: I was riding along and I stretched my shoulders by moving my head and upper body towards the headlight maybe a foot and the wind noise increased noticeably. I realize that the mirrors might be making it worse because my head was almost between them, but I'm wondering if the instrument panel is contributing somewhat to the lack of wind noise? I got my Concours 14 out and put the windshield all the way down and it seems noisier that my CB!

Yes,with almost any new model,one has to work out the
kinks.Thus far the CB 1100 has but a couple.
The Fuel gauge and the engine idle.Also the peg placement,but
that is more personal { Older riders need more forward placement }
Yesterday I took a short ride to gas up because Winter is
approaching and I might not be able to ride for awhile.I usually
can manage a few days in December and also January.But only
once in a Feburary { Coldest month }.
The engine idles for more than 4 minutes.Hondas usually are mapped for a 3 minute idle.That works out nicely for when you check
the oil level.Let the bike run for 3 minutes and off for 2 minutes.
But yesterday which wasn't cold I decided to re-check the oil level.
I use a 4 minute On and 2 1/2 minute off procedure.
The manuel states 3-5 minutes on and 2-3 minutes off.So,it's
within range.
The problem with an extended idle is that engine will slightly
overheat.And when an engine is in Idle,the clutch engages differently.Start out on a motorcycle in full idle and go to engage the
clutch and shifter and it will clunk hard.I don't like doin' that.
Any thoughts

Okay let me try this again, my tablet updated it's app and I lost the whole post just as I was about to post it.

Splintering this away from the miles per gallon thread!

Okay who is going to take this on and figure out for us all what each bar on the fuel gauge represents? Is it certain miles or a certain amount of has for each mile?

At least it will be for that one bike and might she'd some light for the rest of us but it might not pertain to more than one persons bike...

Things to consider:

Could barometric pressure play a factor in it?
Could ambient temperature play a factor in it?
Could the actual fuel makeup play a factor?
Could different octane levels play a factor?
Could a tank protector play a factor on the contents inside?
The big one, could your oil viscosity play a factor in it?

I am sure there are a lot more factors that I didn't list but please can someone figure this out?

Does anyone have a contact at Honda to find out what their engineers had in mind when they engineered this handy fuel gauge?

I invite one and all to help get to the bottom of this and most definitely invite foolardi as it sounds like he may already be working on this.


Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4.2.5 - non pro version.