I just returned from two weeks on the road staffing my event company’s season opening drag races in Florida.

I always like to observe trends in pit bikes. Some fancy 70s era 50 cc scooters like Yamahoppers, Groms and Z125s are becoming very popular. I’ve only seen a few new Monkeys so far.

This time, I spotted something very unique in the pit bike corral - an ‘86 CB700 red/white/blue, in perfect condition. I hovered near it to see who it belonged to, but was called away to do some actual work before the owner returned.

I hope this racer follows to our later events. I’d like to see if this is one of a larger collection of vintage Hondas. Some of our racers are on a shoestring budget, but some are quite the opposite, with unique collections.

I was running a bit late to work today and had been riding the bike till speed limiter kick in for quite a stretch of highway, guessing about 10kms.. Just wondering when the speed limiter kick in, its just cut gas like we run out of gas, right? I see the RPM is no where near the red line and continue to wot till traffic ahead, with the limiter kick in intermittently. The engine handle fine and nothing out of ordinary happen. Why would honda put the limiter so low in the RPM range? Will prolonged limiter kick in hurt the engine?

Sitting hear trying to take my mind off the Corona virus thing--my wife just returned from Costa Rica, has sore throat, chills, slight fever; online doc says no need to test...yet.


I was looking at some 3-4 year old threads and saw lots of usernames that I don't see any more. I wonder if they've moved on from the CB1100. Which made me wonder how long riders own their motorcylces in general.

Question: What's the average number of years you have owned your motorcycles? If you have owned too many to recall, maybe just report on the last 5-7 bikes you've owned. Maybe discard bikes that you bought and then sold immediately after for whatever reason. Indicate bike and whether bought used or new.

My example:
2004 HD Sportster 1200 (new): 8 years
2007 Kawa KLR650 (used): 12 years and counting
2013 Honda CGL125 (new): 4 years
2014 Honda CB1100 (new): 2 years
2017 Honda CB1100 (new): 2 years and counting

Average # of years I own a bike so far: 28 years / 5 bikes = 5.6 years

Outliers: I owned a couple of Yamaha XS650s, but only for a few months, and I owned a Triumph Street Twin for a whole month. Not including these.

So I recently bought a barely used standard 2013 cb1100. Put 100 miles on it first day out, 2nd day the battery died,but thankfully the dealer was nearby, picked it up with their van, drove me home and replaced the battery with a new one, then delivered the bike all at no charge. Now that I have some time to ride it I have to say this is an amazing machine. I've had cruisers b4 and also a 2003 Z1000 and a 2005 Z750s. You had to rev the z's to get real power i.e downshift and then they moved, especially the z1000 which was insane after 7000rpm.
THIS bike however has power almost whenever you need it, I never would have guessed an inline 4 would pull so hard at low rpms. Also, I was amazed that going up a fairly long steep incline on hwy 80 in the Sierra foothills I opened it up in top gear going 80 and this thing pulled hard to 90+ with my 330 pound bulk on it really fast. I am so darn happy with this bike!!!!!!!!!!! Worlds best kept secret when it comes to great motorcycles?

Has anyone installed a cheap tail loop one this bike? I am only wondering about fitement with a Corbin seat. I searched the forum with no luck. The search options were vague, so if y'all have any post or info point me in the right direction. thanks!

...that Guy Willison (who designed the very limited edition CB1100 5Four), is also going to design limited edition models for the current CB1000R and CB650R Neo Sports Café bikes.

Apparently, he'll do a basic trim upgrade pack for the CB650R and an 'all singing and dancing' version.
The CB1000R will have just the one option.

However, judging from the many custom builds I've previously seen on the CB1000R, I think it would have to be something special for me to want to buy one again.

All this from my local Honda Dealer. Guy Willison was visting them to give them the news, just before I turned up and my contact always gives me the latest gossip....

https://www.rideapart.com/articles/40280...in-engine/

Dear all, been looking at these bikes, can't get a demo ride easily hence this question. Not looking to compare with the CB here directly by the way as I think they are different niche's. They are fine looking bikes to my eyes.

Is the standard gearing, especially in first that short? I read it's maxed out at 30mph, surely that can't be true, could it? It also has a positive neutral finder that means at a standstill, you cannot snick up, into second and sort of ride around it. Years ago (1992) I bought my first 'big' bike, a 550cc KAWASAKI Zephyr, and I had it a good while. That had the same gizmo albeit back then I didn't know what it was called. I found it mega annoying. Probably because I couldn't change it was even more noticeable.

There's a few new / pre reg 2018 RS cafe models unsold around and I was half thinking that could be one to go for. Get a good deal maybe. (keeping the EX BTW). Owner opinions appreciated.

I have grown beyond tired of professional sports in general and of professional athletes in particular. This applies in terms of the athletes’ attitudes along with our society’s tendency to place them on such a lofty pedestal here in this country. Baseball was my one mainstream sports weakness and this time of year would normally find me tuned in to watch some spring training games. But so far in 2020 that hasn’t been the case. I mention these things not to break the very rule that I myself initiated of “motorcycling only” conversation on this forum, but to set up the rest of what I wanted to say.

To fill the void of baseball I found myself subscribing to NBC’s special sports network that will allow me to catch every race this this year for both the Supercross series and the Motocross series including all of the qualifying activity and other coverage. I have found myself more or less glued to the TV at some point every weekend. While I have been entertained by the Supercross racing so far this season I personally much prefer the format of outdoor motocross both from the logistics involved (scoring involving two separate moto’s) as well as to watch (I definitely prefer to watch dirt bike racing in an outdoor setting). Still the Supercross season has really provided some spectacular racing so far this year. Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of motocross/supercross racing at Daytona. The racing was incredible as the course laid out on the infield at Daytona is much larger than the average Supercross course.

Unlike the ferret and others here who raced motocross when younger, my time spent with dirt bikes in my youth never extended beyond trail riding and general screwing around. But I have always loved watching Motocross. I sort of lost track of the sport as Supercross became more popular. However, the past few years I began tuning back into the sport. This years racing has been really entertaining. While I am really looking forward to the 2020 outdoor Motocross series to begin, I must admit that so far the 2020 Supercross series has exceeded my expectations.

The most impressive thing to me, and what prompted me to start this thread, is the manner in which so many of these young racers carry themselves. Of significance last night:

In the 450 class there was Ken Roczen making the effort to acknowledge Eli Tomac’s victory via a nod, a fist bump and a few words spoken between them only seconds after crossing the finish line. Roczen led practically the entire race only to be caught by Tomac with just three or so laps remaining. Roczen didn’t crumble and put in quite an effort himself to try and close the gap, hoping for an opportunity to pass Tomac back before crossing the finish line The two of them had entered the Daytona race tied in points for the lead and knew that only one of then was going to be able head to the next round with the red number plates affixed to their bike.

The 250 class also had it’s share of good stories but the one that stood out to me was how Chase Sexton (last year’s champ) dealt with his second place finish to 18 year-old Garrett Marchbanks who grabbed the holeshot and managed to lead the entire race, while holding off Sexton all the way to the checkered flag to claim his first ever professional race win. In the post race interview and the press conference that came later Sexton credited Marchbanks with riding a great race and admitting that he just could not catch him. Marchbanks was all grins with no cockiness to be found at all.

In this sport there will always be some words exchanged between racers who have experienced really hard intentional contact between them resulting in one or both of them going down and maybe some injuries on top of that. In those cases retaliation will usually follow at some point later, they n they move on. For the most part when asked about it these kids typically just chalk it up to racing being racing. It strikes me as a night and day difference between so many of today’s mainstream athletes.

There is no “Riders Union” to speak of. While there is big money to be made in the way of endorsements for the most part racers are only going to get really wealthy if they are able to perform exceptionally well season after season. In addition, while some of them make enough money that they could retire as soon as they hang up their boots, none of them head into their professional career thinking that they will (or should) make enough money to comfortably retire on after less than a decade of competing. It is safe to say that I am having a lot more fun watching these young guys racing dirt bikes than I would be watching Spring Training games right now. Good stuff.

Hey Guys!

I kind of had a 2014 CB1100 fall into my lap a while back. I wasn't actively looking for one, but a deal too good to pass up came around. Needless to say, I'm completely blown away with how fun this bike is! Here's a video I did of my first ride/review/impressions. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/zPPUKp_CsFI