Those who recognize my handle will remember my story. Last year I fell in love with the CB and almost bought a new 2013 from the dealer, but I got cold feet and bailed. This summer the urge returned, and I put out a thread here asking if I were too old and decrepit to ride again. The consensus was no, live a little you big dummy. So I decided that I just had to have a Deluxe, and found a 2014 in Ohio and made a deal with that guy. He delivered it to me here in NC, and as I was looking it over on the trailer, I noticed a dent in the tank and scratches on the tailcase. He claimed to know nothing about either of those, and we negotiated a small discount on the bike. Little did I know...

When I drove it off of the trailer and into the garage, I noticed that the steering was very heavy. Terrible. Later that night, I carefully checked over the mechanicals, and noticed that there was only 10 lbs. of air in the front tire, 20 in the rear. That explained the steering. The next day I took it for a ride, and my wrists started to hurt. My old injuries were flaring back up.

The following week I took it for a nice ride, and after 15 minutes I was in pain. After 30, the pain wasn't worse but it was mostly in my right hand, my carpal tunnel was flaring up and it just wasn't any fun. My riding days are over. So I put the bike up for sale, here, and on Cycletrader.

Everyone, and I mean everyone, mentioned the tank dent. No one wanted the bike, or at least not at my asking price, with that dent in it. It didn't bother me all that much, but it bothered everyone else. So I decided to take it to a Paintless Dent Repair guy, which involved a 40 minute ride (each way) on the highway. The bike rode great, I really enjoyed it (and I hate highway riding) but my tendonitis started acting up after all that, so I knew for sure that my riding days were really over, for sure, no doubt now. The PDR guy got out most of the dent, but it's still there if you look for it.

I'm one of these guys who will not sell something without full disclosure. I'm not going to hide things, hope that the buyer doesn't notice, etc. especially in cases where the shopping is all done remotely. A local buyer can look over the bike carefully, ride it, take it to a shop for a PPI, but someone on the Internet who only has pictures to go by has to rely on my honesty. I was not going to do to the next buyer what was done to me. So I took pictures of all of the damage that I was aware of, and disclosed it when talking to buyers.

Finally I got a buyer, a Canadian fellow who was very excited about it, and after over a week of getting all of the importation paperwork in order, sending deposits, etc., he finally picked it up last night. He brought with him a friend who is a dealer, and he checked it over very carefully. He discovered that not only had it been dropped, as I knew, but that in the drop it also bent the left footpeg and the handlebars. Grrrrr. So, the idiot that I bought it from almost certainly dropped it in his garage or in the driveway, hitting his knee in the process, which dented the tank, and scratched the bar end and the mirror, the crankcase cover and the left exhaust pipe. It also bent the handlebars and the footpeg.

I bought a BMW once from a guy who had done the same thing, but covered up the engine case damage with a set of bars. He claimed to have bumped the garage door, which explained the scratches on the mirror, but he never told me about the other stuff. I was pretty sure that he was lying. When I found the engine damage later, I was very annoyed, but in that case I had really screwed the guy thoroughly on the price (he was out of a job and had to sell the bike) so I felt justified, in hindsight. Hey, he could have said no. That was a great bike, that I owned for many years, farkled it to death, took it to Colorado and rode the Rockies for a week, and is one of those "I shouldn't have sold it" things.



I guess that whole caveat emptor thing really applies to everything.

In this case, I was fortunate to find this buyer, who paid my asking price and is a very nice guy, who sent me a large deposit and paid the balance in cash. So financially, this was not a bad experience.

The CB community here is great (actually, most motorcyclists in general are great folks) and I appreciate all of the positive comments and suggestions and encouragement. I hope you all continue to ride safely and enjoy your wonderful motorcycles. I'll be that guy in the cage, watching wistfully as you ride on by.

Regards,
Michael

Hi, so I did a couple searches on the forum and didn't come up with anything good, searches included "matte red paint" and "matte paint." So here I am, starting A new thread.
I have to admit that the CB1100 isn't the favorite among my bikes, but it still kinda hurts that the tank seems to have been scratched so much (although I'm not sure why to be honest) and this makes me think that a nice matte red paint job for the tank would be a good idea. This makes sense because I've always been partial to red and also because of the abuse the tank seems to take.
Another side question, am I the only one who can never help over filling the tank just a little? Also, does using the center stand help significantly to alleviate this issue? And can you get more fuel in it that way?
Well thanks for whatever responses you might give me!

for those in the New England area..
48 Smithville Road, Spencer, Ma. 01562
Sun. Sept. 11th 2016 10-5
http://www.rice-o-rama.com/

Have been looking through the forum archives and wondering what choices those of you that have changed to smaller blinker/tail light and running lights have made. I've seen several LED versions and want something smaller/sleeker than originals and preferably aluminum instead of plastic. Was thinking maybe some of you could post up pics and info on yours if you've done this. Thanks in advance.

Does anybody leave these on? If so, why?

Hello everyone! I noticed the other day while cleaning my 1100 the right side cover has a slight crack in it where the bolt goes in. not all the way through. I've never had the cover off and was wondering if anyone has had a problem with theirs cracking. I called my local Honda shop and was surprised to find out that a plastic side cover was well over 150.00 bucks!!! To me that's nuts!!!!

Does anyone have a picture of the Honda tank pad that is listed on their accessories page for the CB?
It looks to me like they are using a stock photo on a "generic" tank. I would like to see what it actually looks like on our bikes before I buy one.
Thank you

The idea for this thread is to create a one-stop-shop for CB modification ideas. Almost all of us know where to find Chip Beck's bike thread, but how about that post by JF Coastal about his mirrors... Where was that? Well, hopefully, if you guys agree to play, we can come to this thread, scroll and find that mod "I remember seeing a year ago on Pterodactyl's bike". Hope it turns out beneficial, especially for the new owners that haven't spent enough money on their bikes yet.

The Rules (there's gotta be rules):
1. Post ONE picture of your CB. Only one.
2. Follow the photo with the list of modifications you've made to the bike.
3. If you have luggage post a sub-list of what you use.

See? Simple! Let's play. I'll start.

This is Luberza
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- Tank's lawyer stickers: GONE
- Black license plate frame w/ allen stainless bolts.
- Chrome valve stem caps
(waiting until tire change to install the RED Bridgeport 83* angle valve stems)
- Tank Slapper
- Fork reflectors gone
- Reflectors replaced by black reflective tape on wheels
- Knurled aluminum oil cap by ZRF
- ProGrip 719s
- Under-seat USB port
- Puerto Rico $0.25 mod
- Replaced peg feelers with allen head cap screws
- K&N Air Filter
- Moriwaki Frame Sliders
- Sargent's dished and widened seat, contrasting insert and red double stitched.
- Arrow slip-on
- Lucas style tail light, black
- POSH compact turn signals, black
- Renthal Street Medium handlebars, black
- Renthal bar ends, red
- Triumph Scrambler lollipop mirrors, black
- Cyclops H4 3800Lumen LED headlight
- O2 sensor eliminator plug
- Powder coated black headlight brackets, fenders and heat shield.
- Headers and slip-on finished in flat black CeraKote HighTemp.
- Florida vanity plate MCXLCC
- Kawi gaiters
- Road Comet II
- RLETs, of course.

Luggage
- Ogio tail bag
- Ogio Saddle Bags
- Sedici tank bag (because the magnets fit inside the protective film)
See the luggage [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=7265&page=4]HERE in Post 32.

That's it. I think...

I'm finding a lot of older references to vendors for 19 tooth sprockets but I'm having trouble finding one that is currently producing. They all want you to go down some teeth for crotch rocket acceleration. Any ideas, please?

Awesome full day ride on Saturday with my crew from the 59 Club L.A.
Starting point was a popular biker cafe in Moorpark, and from there on to Ojai and then to Solvang, Ca to check out the cool motorcycle museum there. The last stop was the Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez where the biker groupies were all over us! Lol.
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