Hello everyone,

This summer I had the unfortunate experience of lowsiding my CB1100 as a semi truck attempted to enter my lane and squish me. I had a set of crash bars that *seemed* to do their job, but today when I removed them I noticed some additional frame damage.

Initially the insurance company offered me the option of taking a "cosmetic damage" reimbursement for the frame, instead of a complete frame replacement - which would total the bike. But this was all before I took off the damaged crash bars.

Anyone care to give their opinion on this damage? I would really like to keep this bike, but if the frame is compromised I will let it go.

Here is the initial damage that insurance saw:


Here is a close up of what I found under the dented crash bar:


Interested in other's thoughts.
Thank you.

Because of a recent post I looked into a few US websites for 2nd hand motorcycles. With cycletrader and a few others well known don't seem to offer any CB1100, the following site showed quite a few:

https://www.zecycles.com/search

Some of the ads are clearly copies of copies of the same ad. Some show different locations and prices, but definitely the picture across 2 or 3 ads. Is this site serious or fake ?

A refresher course?





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Guy Willison's 5Four Workshop tour.

https://youtu.be/YzusYsvlFDg

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