And what a nice guy! He took time out from his job to come take a minute to meet me, catch up and shake hands. We met at a cool little vintage motorcycle/coffee shop in Portland called See See Coffee and Motorcycles.

Always great to meet another CB1100 brother face to face, that makes four so far from here! Let's keep up the trend!

Especially on that works so hard to provide all of us with a place to gather and share. Thanks again for the Hospitality Guth! You da man!

I might add that Staintune pipe, sounded awful good when he pulled away!

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I have been thinking of having someone make side covers and air intake covers out of aluminum. Is there anyone on here that does this? Does anyone know anyone?


just figured i'd ask

I just adjusted my preload today and what a difference! The bike now handles like a much lighter machine. I went down one line on the front and one notch up on the rear shocks. I had never adjusted this on any of my other machines, but with the CB, it really makes her handle like a dream. Here is link that really simplifies how preload works:

http://lostmotorcycles.blogspot.com/2010...-easy.html

Now if Honda would only include the preload adjuster wrench in the toolkit instead of a tool everyone already owns like the Phillips screwdriver.......

I had been out of sport bike riding for a few years prior to my CB1100 purchase in the spring. As far as who waves to who, I've noticed some of the same things going on, but have also noticed a higher percentage of Harley riders waving to me now....is this because I'm on a UJM now? Or has everyone started to accept each other in this day and age?
I normally do not wave first any more, as I feel odd when I wave and they don't wave back....
Any thoughts?

Getting ready to order the red side covers from Samurider. Thought I would check and see if someone else already has them and wants to sell theirs. Let me know!

Thanks!

I just sold my Ducati and was looking for something more upright and reliable and I fell in love with the CB1100. I had a 71 CB750 before the Ducati and loved the ride.

I was thinking about the Bonneville too.

My biggest problem with the Honda is the color, red. I just don't like red and I can't understand why they wouldn't bring black to the United States. My latest inquiry with my dealer is that they will not be bringing black to the U.S. again this year.

I see Samurider sells black tanks. Has anyone gone that route?

Saw this video from a bike show in Montreal. Was interested to see the slight changes in details for the model shown. Take a look.

http://youtu.be/_7PNK4U9kMY

I like the turn signals being lopped off, and think the seat is the lower version. I especially like the white rank, but that's to be expected.
But what of the exhaust, is that a sound baffle in there? Certainly does not look cool.
Also the intake to the engine looks white, the whole thing kinda stands out.
Lastly, the Honda logo in the engine covers is blacked out, I am really liking that. Wondering how difficult that would be to do and have be durable.

Anyway, is a cool video.

Anyone found a small tank bag that works well on the bike? On my K1200S I had this really small bag that just had enough room for my wallet, cash and garage door opener that attached to the gas cap. But, it's not compatible with this gas cap.

I'm looking for something very small to go on the tank, bars, something.

Several of us have installed a Lucas-style tail light which does a lot to "tighten up" the rear fender's appearance but the single conventional tail light bulb let a lot to be desired since the aftermarket tail lights don't come with a parabolic reflector and a lens that's designed to diffuse the meager light output of the single filament.

The conventional bulb does work, just that I felt I needed more light output so idiot drivers would have a better chance of seeing me and I didn't feel light wiring up additional lights.

A friend who has resurrected his old Suzuki GS-something from back in the day recommended getting LED's from [url=http://superbrightleds.com]superbrightleds.com so I dug around their site and [url=http://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/tail-brake-turn/1157-led-bulb-dual-intensity-25-led-motorcycle-bulb/170/767/]found these:



What's interesting is that they have the array of LED's firing straight back but they also have a ring of white LED's behind those red LED's to give you illumination for your license plate.

I had to do more research on their site to figure out why they say to get a RED LED for a RED tail light when you would think the white LED would give you a brighter tail light, but nope something to do with how a white LED puts out less red light and the rest of the light output from the white LED gets filtered out by the red tail light housing.

Interesting. I also remembered some science about how red/blue/green combined (or some such combination of colored lights) when added together would give you a "white" light. Light coloring differs from how we go about mixing paint which is what throws me off.

Anyway, 'nuff rambling. Much happier with the light output now that I have multiple points of light instead of the single filament of the stock bulb.



OK so $12.99 per bulb (plus about $2.99 for quick mailing) isn't cheap but it's a lot less than some of their other 1157 bulbs that cost $24 or so! Beats getting something like Hyperlites and going through more hassles with wiring again.

Aloha,
Huladog

Can any Canadian members direct me to a good Honda dealer in Canada? I want to order these factory chrome side covers (08F74-MGC-D30) that are not available here in the US.