It began as an animal trail along a creek, later used by Native Americans for hunting and navigating a beautiful, unforgiving landscape. Before European explorers arrived, the area around Milpitas was inhabited by the Tamyen Ohlone tribe. An Indian village once stood near the corner of Calaveras Road and Old Piedmont Road. Europeans encouraged the Ohlone to move on and claimed the land and village for future Catholic settlers. In the 1980s, the last remnants of the village were buried when the Calvary Assembly of God purchased the land to build a Church Complex. Although Christian charity has removed most traces of Indian heritage, the land remains pristine. A paved road, Calaveras, was built on the trail. Although I will defer to the Forum’s linguist and great adventure rider pdedse, I believe Calaveras is Spanish for skulls. The Spanish were surprised to find skulls lining the creek beds, a constant reminder that the Indians were not going to leave without a fight.

Calaveras Road is popular with cyclists and motorcyclists. These two tribes have learned from the past and show mutual respect and consideration for one another. When I ride Calaveras on a road bike or motorcycle, I find myself completely in the moment. As the road winds, it often narrows to a single lane. Most of the road has no shoulder, and even fewer fences. It winds, twists, climbs, and descends as it always has. During the week, cars occasionally use the road when Interstate 680 becomes congested. But during the weekend, the road belongs to those on two wheels. See a few pictures I recently captured and a highlight video my new camera created using its AI Director. If you find yourself in the East Bay on a motorcycle, Calaveras Road is 12 miles worth traversing. Have a great Memorial Day Weekend. David















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A 2014 with tasteful mods is offered on BaT:
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2014-honda-cb1100-12/

Hi everyone!

I've been quietly stalking this forum for some time now, and thought now is finally the time to say hi. 
In fact, the amazing collection of information (and people) here were part of the reason why I've bought a CB 1100 (2013) in the first place (I was considering a Bonneville or Interceptor — heresy!). 

I always enjoyed fixing my bikes (the ones without motorised support), but I've never owned nor worked on anything with a motor. This forum allowed me to start wrenching on my CB as well, and it's wonderful. With the help of all of you I've managed to:
- do basic maintenance (chain, oil, brake/clutch fluids including flushing the C-ABS, cleaning the air filter)
- change brake pads and subsequently fixed a self-inflicted brake drag issue (Terrence O'Keeffe helped with that!)
- change all lights to LED while maintaining the beautiful stock sockets
- repair a broken mirror (that wasn't me)
- change a broken clutch lever (that was very much me, the bike wanted to take a nap in a parking garage...)
- chose saddlebags and a tailbag that match the CB
- fix a stuck turn signal
- install a new battery
- coat it a few times in ACF-50 (Dutch winters are gnarly)
- and of course: unlock an extra 5kW, 12Nm, and endless style points with the greatest farkle of them all... 

I've put about 7'000 km on it since I got it in January, and absolutely love it still. Also, I called it "Hondalf the White".

Thank you for being part of that!

Cheers!

   
   
   

My continuing gratitude to everyone to everyone on the forum for your support of my participation in the Los Angeles DGR! This was my first L.A. ride since 2015. I love to support my home county, OC, but the ride was getting too large for its organizers. I had been chatting with one of the L.A. ride hosts, and he convinced me that their ride, while quite a bit larger, had more organization with full escorts and controlled intersection crossings. Where OC posts the ride map a week or so ahead of time, the LA ride doesn't announce the route at all. With full traffic control, they make it a surprise for the riders. At first I was dubious, but 15 escorts provided full protection and kept the group together.

A total of 472 riders participated. Of my modern classics, I could have taken my Enfield Interceptor, and joined the two others that participated. I could have taken my black Bonneville, and been one of countless other black Bonnevilles. I took my CB1100, and out of 472 bikes, had the only one on the ride. When I arrived at the gathering site, I rode up to a tent with three volunteers checking the riders in. The guy checking me in commented to the others about my bike... "Hey, you guys ever seen a CB1100? Smoothest running, shifting bike Honda ever made!" I had to agree with him. He also commented "Hey, congratulations on being a top-50 donor!" That was very cool to learn! 

All kinds of bikes showed up, even a group of Filipino sidecar jitneys - these had so much detail in them that it was difficult to see everything at once in them.

It was a great scene, and I made all kinds of new friends. When the ride kicked off, We were away, riding two-by-two. I ended up right behind a Ural sidecar rig that was decked out with a very dapper couple holding a dog. One of the ride photographers was in front of them, in another Ural sidecar facing back, snapping away at the cute couple with the dog. I must have ended up in the background of plenty of pictures.

The ride started from a college next to the Santa Monica Airport, and wove through many of the highlights on the west side of L.A. including Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, the Santa Monica Pier, Venice and the Venice canals.

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This story from Motorcycle.Com, https://www.motorcycle.com/bikes/news/wt...h-44664922

Video here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxnhqd30u_A

Good afternoon everyone,

Just picked up a super clean 13’ CB1100 with 5k miles last weekend. Really happy with the bike so far. Only little issue was a slipping throttle grip from aftermarket heated grips… Fixed the slipping but I’ll be replacing the grips soon.

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Sandwiched between an RNineT and a Hondapotumus, the CB fits in pretty well.
I've been riding this event for well over a decade, and I've seen a total of two other modern CB1100s in that time.
Always a good time, though!

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I've just had a strange whistling noise coming from the fuel tank. I was concerned it was the fuel pump, but running the bike with the fuel cap open made the noise go away. My friendly neighbourhood mechanic reckoned it was likely a blockage in a tiny air vent in the filler cap and suggested I had a go at cleaning it up as the alternative would be to buy a new one. Of course, if one had an old bike like a 1969 Honda CB750, one could pull the thing apart, clean it up and even install a new gasket. Not any more. Honda would like you to replace the whole thing at a cost north of AU$100. I'm not confident that, if I got it apart, it would go back together.

Anyway, putting aside the grizzle, I took the cap off and cleaned it up as best I could, including giving it a bath in vinegar. I think I found the two little breather holes and scratched some crud out of them with a needle. I've run the bike for 10 minutes or so and the noise hasn't started again, so here's hoping.

However, I also noted that the spring which compresses to allow the lock tangs to spring out is working ok on one side but not the other. It makes it a bit hard to close the cap easily as the key does not simply spring back. Ideally one would pull it apart and clean the spring up, but I can't see how to do that and I'm not keen on breaking it.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Please?

For those times when you want to look cool...yet still ride with a measure of safety: 

Bonjour, j'ai changé mon feu arrière et j'ai du faire une mauvaise manipulation.
J'ai plus d'éclairage des compteurs ni de feu arrière. Savez vous quel est le fusible qu'il faut changer et si oui où est-il ?
Merci Pour votre aide !