I love the look of the four chrome headers on my CB1100 EX. But they catch bugs when I ride. Bugs will wash off other parts of the bike with car wash soap and water. But the headers will fry them until they become as impervious as shellac.

After trying a number of solvents of increasing environmental nastiness without success, I fell back on an old favourite used in the retro years of motorcycling: Autosol. The tube looks the same and the white paste still smells as nasty as ever, but like everything else the cost is not like I remember.

I spread a line of the paste down the front of the closest header and spread it with the finger of my nitrate glove. Yes some form of plastic gloves will be required. This stuff is not user friendly and creates a black mess on anything you may touch. I move onto the next header and repeat the procedure. That gives the Autosol on the first header a chance to do its chemical thing (technical term).

Now comes the hard part where a little elbow grease is required. Sorry kids this can’t be done with the push of a cell phone button. The old school way it to use an old sock, and I still have not found anything better.

Fortunately I just happen to have 12 new pairs of Fruit of the Loom white socks I bought on sale at Walmart in “the states”. Canadian for the United States of America. These were supposed to fit someone with size 12 to 16 feet. Unfortunately you would have to have awful skinny legs or the spandex would crush the flesh of your calves to pulp. But they were only $10 which is pretty cheap for 24 disposable polishing rags.

These cheap socks really stretch, so I wrap the sock around the first header twice. Grabbing the ends, I pull them back and forth tightly, moving the sock up and down the header as I do. When I felt any resistance, I just stopped and spun the sock a little tighter.

Tadah! One clean header and one real grubby sock. I repeated the process for the other header. Then rolled to the other side of the bike and did the other two. Oh! I forgot to mention. Having one of those little mechanics stools on casters really saves the back. After all four are done, I chuck the black sock in the garbage, then sit back and admire all that glittering chrome.

To Ferret, Cormanus, and Guth,

Any chance we could get a "Like" button under each posting? Once "Liked" a posting would show the name of who "Liked" it. I find it to be a nice way to tell if someone agrees with you.

I learned to use this function at the GSXS1000 site. See here for an example: http://www.gsxs1000.org/forum/gsxs-1000-...ution.html Make sure to use the "full" non-mobile view to see the "likes".

Thank you for reading this great leaders!

Hello Folks,

Planning to change the clutch fluid in the coming weeks and was looking for the speed bleeder part number that fits the clutch slave cylinder for ease of bleeding.

I am familiar with the speed bleeders and have them on my car and other bike, very helpful and makes it easier to bleed.

[url=http://goldwingdocs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=38315]http://goldwingdocs.com/forum/viewtopic....10&t=38315

Coming down from Ompah on a quiet twisty road I had a young lad on a cruiser glue himself to my tail. Probably a pack animal from one of the local cruiser clubs. I slow on the straights hoping he will get bored and pass. No luck.

I move to the line when he does, but he just moves to edge of the lane. I move the edge of the lane and he moves to the line. Well trained pack animal I think to myself. But I'm a lone wolf a really don't like someone this close.

So now its time to get ugly. I scream through every corner I can throwing caution to the wind hoping his low riding cruiser will scrap up a few sparks and back him off. He does slow down, but quickly makes it up in the straits. This guys worse that a deer fly.

And then it happens. I just passed the turn for South Lavant Road I was searching for. I turn the right signal light on and slow to a stop on the shoulder of the road. He stops behind me. I signal left and pull a U-turn. He continues on his way. Thank God, now I can enjoy my ride again.

For the purpose of mounting soft saddlebags I have deiced to mount a set of temporary rear signals that will only be used for trips. My plan is as follows.

1. Create a connection, using OEM Honda connectors, under the seat so that the stock signals can be unplugged without the pain of getting down to the battery box.

2. Mount some light weight aftermarket signals to the licence plate bracket in place of the red reflectors.

3. finish them with OEM Honda connectors that will plug in in place of the stock units.

I will not try and do the wiring in the channel under the seat but will merely run them externally up the fender and under the seat. Given that they will only be on a couple of times a year this seems easiest.

Does anyone see an issue or potential problem with this? Finally how the heck do I get the stock signals off? Do I need to take the side brackets with turn signals still mounted and then remove the signals from the backside?

So for less than $200 I decided to give these a try before spending 600 to 1300 on Ikon or Ohlins shocks. What the heck, why not.

Easy install - good quality - firmer (progressive wound), and good rebound control - huge range of compression adjustment - and the bike rides the same one up or two - I must admit i am exceedingly happy with this purchase - I am no lightweight and with two up and a full top box there was a very bad ride with the stock shocks no matter what preload.

After one adjustment from my initial guess on the preload they are now comfortable and take railway tracks very well

i had to cut the spare key down in order to access the helmet lock (the nitrogen piggy back blocks the full size key enough that it bends - apart from that no worries

anyone else tried them?

(i have a black 2016 - went full black on the units and they look very good)


http://www.ebay.ca/itm/HONDA-CB1100-365m...2749.l2649

Does anyone know the figure for 60 - 0 braking distance for the CB1100 (in any or all of its guises)?

Some time ago the Ferret designed some tank protectors for the DLX. Stateboy was kind enough to upload and post a link to the template which can be found below.


[url=attachment.php?aid=6713]CB1100 Template for DLX tank protection.pdf (Size: 358.95 KB / Downloads: 527)

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The Ferret's original post is [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2553&pid=34817#pid34817]here but is now largely useless thanks to Photobucket.

MTC's purchase of his second CB1100 piqued my curiosity. Have you owned the same model motorcycle on two different occasions?

I have, five times:

2 K75's
2 SV650's
2 F800ST's
2 V7 Classic's
2 CB750's (both SOHC but 8 model years apart)

Anyone else?