I put knobbies on my sled!!!!
I like it because all the noise keeps me awake when ridding plus the tingly sensation up my butt!

Snow fell on Lassen last weekend but not enough to close the park early, so I headed up for my Fall loop.
Left the house about 10 am bundled up with my winter jacket, and was too warm for the first hour but not enough to change down a layer. Headed up to Red Bluff on 99, then hopped on 36 for a quick climb to the south park entrance. Traffic was light, it was a beautiful morning and pleasantly cool when I got into the mountains.
I had filled up in Chico and instead of stopping at Red Bluff just 45 minutes up the road, I figured I could get some gas at Mineral, just before the park. Couldn't find any, so at the park entrance I asked the ranger about it. He gave me his best "yew ain't from around here, are ya?" look and informed me they hadn't had gas there for years. Fortunately, there was gas to be had at the north entrance and I had enough to get there.
Grabbed a hot dog and chips at the gift shop/information center and headed up the park road. Traffic was very light as I cruised past the steaming sulfur pots and I was able to maintain a comfortable 35 or so throughout the tour.

After passing the highest point at 8500 feet, I stopped for this shot.
Going down the north side I got this pic showing last weekends snow where it had not yet melted.

It was incredibly beautiful, with mountain lakes and meadows, scared a couple deer off the road and assorted furry rodents. Photos can't convey the experience.
Headed out the north entrance and west to Shingle Springs where I dodged south to Manton on an interesting road that was too steep with downhill switchbacks to really be a great road to ride, plus there was some kind of fall festival going on in that little town making for busy traffic. Once through Manton it was on to 36 to close the loop, then Red Bluff again and home. 245 miles, great fun, bike ran flawlessly.

Ben

Throughout my riding career most of my rides get upgrades whether it be for appearance or for performance. I'm always looking to make it "mine" and if I can squeeze a little more juice than the designers sent it out with, good for me. For example my '08 T-100 left the factory with 55ish HP. With a few minimal tweaks she put down 69 on the dyno. I haven't done anything to the CB yet performance-wise. I put on a different slip-on for sound purposes. When I do the full header system this winter I suppose it will add a little extra pep but I'm not doing it for performance. I have a 15 tooth front sprocket to go on and it will add a bit of acceleration but it can't really be called a "performance mod". So the CB has pretty much, give or take, the same HP now as it did when it landed on our shores sometime in 2013.

I have recently, however, managed to seemingly increase the performance of the Big Girl quite substantially. Now, this "mod" is not for everyone and was not cheap relatively speaking but the power just pours through the smooth I4 like it never has to date. The front wheel is waaaay lighter and the torque immediate from top to bottom. You'll find yourself blasting through the gears as your arms strain to hang on.

What is this incredible, profound, power addition you ask?

Go get yourself a single cylinder CBR300R. After 500 or so miles on the tiny thumper the first ride on the CB was eye opening. It took me a couple tries to get the Big Girl off her sidestand but once she got moving, dang that's a difference! You can thank me later for your seemingly boundless HP of your current CB.

After numerous searches ect
I have concluded that I would like to purchase a
Catless header and slip ons for my cb11 ex
I’m looking at the arrow racing slip on
Mufflers. I like the look and sound and the fact that
They mimick the stock 4-2 system

My only real questions are

1. Can I purchase a 4-2 header for the bike. I can’t seem to
Find that information during my searches

2. What shop to purchase these items from
I’ve searched for that too. And can’t seem to locate
A dealer of good shop

First thing, nab yourself a perfect fall day. Bright sunshine, cool in the morning, seventy degrees in the afternoon. Head east to the California Gold Country, resplendent in its autumn foliage. Bop around in mickey mode, maybe sixty mph on smooth, serpentine roads up to, say, a funky little hamlet like Georgetown, but only after taking a detour through a soaring cathedral of evergreens to Stumpy Meadows...





Upon completion of your detour, go grab some Mexican food. The tortilla chips have to be crunchy, the salsa properly chunky. Helps, too, if the woman sitting at the bar looks like a brunette Scarlett Johansson.

As you're getting ready to leave, maybe some old Billy Gibbons look-alike on an old H-D Sportster will be sitting on a bench outside the bar, studying your bike.

"Yours?" he might ask. Better still, he doesn't ask what year it is, or are you the original owner, or who performed the restoration? Nope, he follows his initial question up with, "2017 CB1100 EX, right? Met a fella last week down at Bike Night in Sacramento who had the exact same bike. Was that you?"

I had my helmet and shades on, so he couldn't see my face.

"Nope, it wasn't me. I don't go to Bike Nights."

Brother Billy went on to tell me that he currently has "five or six" Harleys, but he's planning on getting rid of all of them. Instead, he wants something for long trips, to go see friends in the Rockies. Says he's had a half dozen CBs, all from the late sixties to early eighties. Now he's looking at things like the Kawasaki Concours, but he only knows about the previous generation version, the one that was introduced in 1986. I described the new one to him, the size and power of which seemed to put him off of that idea.

Gesturing to my bike, he asked, "I don't want anything too big or heavy. Definitely no Gold Wings. How are these things for long trips?"

I told him that I have no problem doing 500-mile days on my CB, and I would have zero hesitation about riding it to Canada and back, but then I also don't like big fairings or windshields. I like clean, smooth air, with no buffeting or turbulence. He agreed on the windshield issue, so I told him a bit more about the bike.

Then I offered him a ride. His eyes lit up, big time.

Fifteen minutes later, after zipping up and down that twisty little slice of heaven, he came back sporting a huge grin.

"This is the one," he said, pulling his bandana off of his face. "Thanks a bunch. That's it. I'm gettin' me one of these, just like this one. A red EX."

He was stoked. With his big gray beard, bright blues eyes, and puffy red cheeks, he looked like Santa Claus, if Santa made his rounds in black leather chaps and a matching vest.

We headed off in separate directions, and during my ride to my next stop I couldn't help but take note of each of the bike's qualities that I'd described to Santa Billy: the ease of the clutch, and overall transmission excellence; the ridiculously good suspension quality, turning all those Gold Country roads into a never-ending magic carpet ride; the beauty of the gauges, and of the sparkly red paint shimmering in the early-afternoon sunlight; the serene tranquility of the entire experience.

Very cool, indeed. It was just all so good. There is simply no better way to come to appreciation something than to gush about it to someone else, and then lock down that great feeling with your own confirming experience.

And so it went, until I hit my next destination, Hidden Falls...









(That last shot reminds me of a Civil War battlefield. Love that one.)

You know, on a day like this, I find myself really coming around to that whole mickey way of riding.

And so it goes....

What a great way to fall in love again with one of Honda's very best.

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/10/01/...rcyclists/

Hello Lads!!!
Looking for non OEM stuff (since its 90$ for OEM) but cannot find any reference on them if I google them.

How many of you have changed your rear wheel bearings and at how many miles?

Do you have a link to online supplier?


Thanka mucho!

JD

If, and that is a big "if", this comes to the US, I'll have to have one. Brings back fond memories. I just moved up in the Sierra Mountains and can see many opportunities for this piece of nostalgia!

https://www.rideapart.com/articles/37309...okyo-show/


Sent from my SM-T710 using Tapatalk

This is a somewhat down-in-the-weeds technical question that I have not seen addressed before.

I just finished my third valve clearance check and adjustment at 24,000mi on the odometer. A few valves were at the upper or lower spec limit each time I've inspected them and I always set them back to the center of the spec range. It seems foolish to me to leave any at either extreme end of the range because if they drift at all in that direction, then it's out of spec.

Anyway, while reinstalling the cams, a question occurred to me: How does the ECM know if a particular cylinder is TDC on the compression stroke or TDC on the exhaust stroke? Unlike most modern engines, the CB1100 does not have cam position sensors; it relies completely in the crank position sensor(CKP). The CKP can only give information that a cylinder is TDC, but not whether it's compression stroke or exhaust, which is 100% dependent on the cam positions (which turn at exactly 1/2 the rate of the crank).

The ignition system doesn't need to know the difference as it sparks the #1 & #4 cylinders together and the #2 & #3 cylinders together. A spark is wasted during each firing because only one of the two cylinders associated with each coil fires is needed for a given crank cycle. A wasted spark is immaterial, though.

However for the fuel injection, you can't fire a fuel charge into a the back of a closed valve then again into an open port on the next crank cycle, so how does the ECM know when to fire the injectors? The system must determine if a particular cylinder is at TDC compression or exhaust somehow.

On the single cylinder CRF dirt bike (which also has no cam sensor), the CKP can sense the slightly-slowing crank rotation during the compression stroke and the increasing rate on the power stroke to determine when TDC compression is. That wont work on an inline 4-cylinder, though, with a power stroke every 180 degrees of crank rotation.

Anybody of you smart guys have any thoughts on how Honda overcomes not having cam sensors with the CB1100 motor?

Just turned 40k miles on my 2014 CB1100 Deluxe and finishing up my 5th set of tires. Current set is Bridgestone Battlax T31; at 9500 miles there is still a fingernail thickness left from wear indicator to tire surface. All in all I thought these tires worked ok for me. Just received by 3rd set of Michelin Road Pilot 3's from JP Cycles which will get mounted soon. Love the Pilot 3s and had to experience them one more time before none are left. Will probably go back to Battlax T31 next time.