I think my love for the CB1100 is actually a touch misguided. When I was very young, I always loved pretending to ride my dad's KZ900. He had such a cool jacket too. It was a Drospo/Taurus tan and oxblood cafe racer style jacket with tan piping and ribbed elbows.

My dad was very fit in his late twenties early thirties and his jacket was a 36 or 38. I tried it on when I was in my 20's but at 6' 215 lbs I wasn't getting into it.

Since I now have the bike which in my mind satisfies the bike I never got to ride (he went for a ninja 900 in 1988 and the to a soft tail in 1995 which he still ownes and rides btw) I just needed the jacket to complete the picture. I have found a few vintage made in Canada Drospo/Taurus jackets that would have fitted the bill, but they were all in these tiny sizes, 42 was about the largest I've seen.

Last night on Kijiji I found probably as close as I will get. A gentleman in his 80's was getting his son to sell his custom made Drospo/Taurus made in Canada suit with a size 52 Jacket. Now I'm somewhere between an XL and a XXL and in most suits my jacket is a 48. But I know these jackets fit quite small. I was at a store trying jackets a couple days ago and there was a 52 that was too small from one company and a 46 that was just right from another. Anyhow, I meet the guy and try the jacket on and it's perfect! I rode home with it and stuffed my old jacket (a 3xl that is too big because I lost some weight) in my side case. What a difference! My old jacket was always a touch bug even when I was heavier. The new jacket is really much better at keeping the wind out! New jacket, it's older than me! Ha! I don't know what to do with the pants, they are WAY too big for me, and I don't really like the look of matching leather pants. I may keep them as over pants for weather, or get them fitted, or I may get them made into matching gloves!

Anyhow, the jacket is practically brand new as the original owner only wore the outfit once or twice.

Has anybody tried the "Honda CB1100 DLX MAGNUM REVOLUTION-PRO Motorcycle Speed / REV Limiter CDI Box"?

REF: http://www.magnumtuning.com/en/detail/re...cb1100-dlx

I have the 14" oval Delkavic slip on on my bike. The pipe extender has a stop for the center stand, the extender pipe I mounted eventually loosened and turned and let the center stand come up higher and higher until the chain was rubbing it! Luckily I noticed it before any damage was caused. I think what happened is that when I originally mounted the extender pipe I had pushed it on to the header pipe too far, the clamp was passed the thicker ring on stock header not letting it tighten as it should. Lesson learned. Check those center stand stops if you have this set up......

So it seems like in a few recent threads of mine. That when I link a photo from google it can't be seen by everyone. I find this very, very frustrating. When I take
any photo on my phone it's automatically uploaded to google photos for safe keeping. Super convenient. !

I than share to my google plus account. 1 button. And share here.

What's the work around ? Anyone know ? I really don't want to start using photobucket or some other site.


Any input would be great.

Thannks.

JF

Honda OEM Luggage Rack prevents using any off the shelf saddlebag supports. Made my own that attached directly to luggage rack. Simple and work great. Prototype is 3" by 8" ply, but will finalize in aluminum bar stock. Anybody can make these. Pics attached.

Post title taken from article title on Paul Crowe's The Kneeslider. Nice treatment of CB1100 mod to look like RC30
http://thekneeslider.com/honda-rcb1100r-...rc30-look/

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Forum member Capo is doing it tough on the Isle of Man—apparently dodging rain drops and drinking beer.

His annual reports on the race for Motorcycle.com are a great read. The first for 2017 can be found [url=http://www.motorcycle.com/events/isle-of-man-tt-2017-preview]here.

Researched racks and crash bars for the cb, settled on Fehling , they were shipped from Germany by Motea, very good pricing. Duly arrived , fitted the rack first, exellent well pleased , fitted left side crash bar not so pleased felt the bars were very close to the casing and quality not quite as good as the rack so returned the crash bars. Went on holiday and on return settled on sw motech crash bars ordered from Motea (good price i thought £94 inc postage) fitted them and like many guys on here well pleased with them

I bought my cb with with just over a week to go to a holiday we had booked, back now great to be out riding. We visited Fuerteventura Canary islands some great biking roads almost traffic free smooth pot hole free,we were there for a week last December, i hired a suzuki inazuma 250 for the day and toured the northern part of the island , great day out , had a car this visit great trip.My pal has just got a new royal enfield continental gt, great looking bike but not for me.
Fitted a couple of bits since getting the bike will post in Acc. and Mods. LE signing off for now.