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Monday promised rain late today, so I decided to go for a ride and see whether I could make it home without getting wet. Ever optimistic, I packed my wet weather gear in the top box.

The map shows a bit of backtracking including an accidental reverse circle—the motorcyclist’s equivalent of the double somersault with pike. If you follow the link to the map, you’ll see it. The route is reasonably clear: A to B to C etc. The second A to B is the final leg.

I fought the usual minor battle with traffic to escape the city.

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There were soon signs of the country life.
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I stopped to take a photo of the bike with the city in the distance, but, like Jake and Elwood, received a visitation.
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Then it was back to the sweeping corners along the ridge of Mt Mee.
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It was Monday so the Brazen Hussey in Woodford, where I usually stop for a fortifying coffee, was closed. I pressed on and soon found myself on a delightful back route to Maleny.
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I’m not sure whether it’s clear from the photo above, but the road climbs steeply. To the right of the photo, but hidden by the trees, there’s a very tight left-hand corner. Half way around it I was suddenly confronted by the lycra-clad posterior of a bloke riding his bicycle up the hill—these guys are such masochists, I reckon. I missed him, but it made me realise that the corner was not just sharp, but also pretty steep.

Towards the end of Mears Lane there are great views over the Glasshouse Mountains to the sea.
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I stopped in Maleny for brunch: a delicious brekky wrap—scrambled egg, bacon, some green leaves and an excellent tomato salsa wrapped in a tortilla—and a coffee. Then it was down the hill to Bald Knob Road which is less travelled and very pretty in parts.
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I thought to check out Ocean View Road on the way back. It turns off the Mt Mee Road and it looked to me like I’d find my way down from the hills. I didn’t and ended up back on the Mt Mee Road somewhere behind where I’d turned off and so disoriented that I started heading back to Woodford. It’s a good road, so it was no great hardship to retrace my steps.

A detour over Clear Mountain on the way back saw another milestone.
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The bike looked pretty good after I filled it at Samford before climbing the wonderful hill to Mt Glorious and the Mt Nebo Road home.
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It’s a hard life.

Good day,
2017 CB1100 Top case with 1 key system.
Note: The 2017 key is an internally cut key - different from 2016 and earlier model.
I wonder if any of you has ever assemble a HONDA top case key barrel/tumbler.

Just received a new Top case from Samurider and the barrel/tumbler assembly instructions are in Japanese. I tried my best, however, has a few question that bothers me.
For lack of technical words, I don't know how to better describe/explain my problem, so I will give it my best shot, I have 2 questions.
Description:
The barrel/tumbler has 6 rows and each row can accept 2 individual pins except for the 1st row and 6th(last) row which is a one piece pin.
Q1. The only way for the pins to be flush with the barrel is I had to mix different pins on the same row. Is it a normal industry practice for the barrel/tumbler to be assemble like that?
Q2. I cannot find a solution for the last row (furthest inward) which accept a single piece pin. There is no single unit pin in the kit that I can use so that it is flushed with the barrel.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Will take some pictures.

Been after a buddy for several years that occasionally floats the idea of selling his pristine 2009 HD XR1200 in Orange (the CORRECT color)with a number of high end aftermarket parts and currently a shade over 9,000 miles. He consistently pulls back from the brink of selling and leaves me hanging. Our local Harley dealer knows about my bike preference (air cooled, retro styled bikes with neutral or sport seating positions) and just acquired a 2009 clone of my buddies on trade (sans some of the aftermarket bits and 12.4 K miles). Calls my bud who passed on the message.

Sooooo..I called Friday PM and made an appointment to test ride it Sat at 9 AM and have my bud there for a second opinion and some coffee before we leave the dealership. Sat at 1 dark thirty I wake up to incredible pain. After 10 minutes of dancing around the house I get into the car hunched over and wife takes me to ER. Morphine drip-CT etc. etc. and the diagnosis is Kidney stone is making a run for daylight down my right urethra. Long story somewhat short I miss the test ride.

Today I call him, explain my situation and ask if I can test ride it tonight. He says sure. Show up today at 4:30 and run it though its paces down the freeway to my house stopping there just to float the idea to my wife (and daughter who happened to be there). Got a VERY cool reception. Rode back to dealer and told him the bike was exactly what I expected but that I wanted my buddy to stop by tomorrow, and ride the bike and give me his impressions. If that went well I'd have to figure out how to wear down the wife.

Salesman says..."gimme a minute". Walks back to his office, comes back and hands me a huge pink ribbon and says "two ladies were here earlier and bought this for you. It's your bike". Turns out my wife who heard me talking about the bike already had gone down with my daughter and paid for it prior to me arriving at the dealership. My bud had checked out the bike and chances of me not wanting it were Zero. Plus she's been hearing me talk about buying my friends XR for 3+ years and wanted to put an end to it.

Picking it up tomorrow or Thursday. Getting a couple of aftermarket things added before I ride it home.

Just checking that i can post pictures - we set off on Sunday to tour the Scottish Highlands for the rest of the summer and would like to show you all our travels around the northern UK - testing.
It works - great

John in the UK

I started life on a CB750K. I'm remembering that the horn was on the bottom of the left cluster...Is that correct? The 2014 has the horn in the middle and blinker on the bottom.

KY 227 south of [url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/38.5250978,-84.8068278/14358+Georgetown+Rd,+Stamping+Ground,+KY+40379/@38.4614914,-84.7833652,11.71z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x88421a0db66b85fd:0x9d4fc7f14a9d9771!2m2!1d-84.7065925!2d38.3703345]Owenton to the Scott County line. This is one of the curviest roads around here, but there's nowhere to pull off and take a photo of the multiple consecutive esses.

Gear down, throttle up!

I was actually cold today when I took my first pass over from Tellico Plains to Robbinsville on the Skyway today. It was just unreal to have the weather we had today in JULY! Bike was perfect and ran around 250 miles on the trip today. I've run nearly 1000 miles since I picked it up and just love it.

For the pics or it didn't happen crowd...
First stop for a pic of the skyway. The guy on the HD stopped and said how much he liked the retro CB. I agreed.
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She behaved at the The Hub for lunch in Robbinsville, NC.
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Skyway overlook on the second pass coming home. Love the new tail bag!
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Trying out some retro late 70s wire hubcaps to match the retro CB1100s it will be hauling ;-)

First real trip!!! Feeeeels good!!!!

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Being rear-ended is the new left-turn-in-front-of-motorcycle.

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