I learned today that we might be able to use a motorcycle for work at my new job. That would be perfect. In the Los Angeles area, traffic is ridiculous and the bike saves so much time. That reimbursement program would really pay off with the mileage the CB1100 should be capable of. I have to double check with my regional manager, but it will be cool if I'm able to spend my time on 2 wheels instead of 4. Remaining hopeful...

https://youtu.be/oKokq7JYh6Y

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Blood & Oil

"The last of the embers cool in the waking dawn
as the silence echoes through the empty roads
and the beat of heavy hearts stir the morning air
The wasteland smiles, a grin tired and stretched too thin

Built on rotting soil the city starts to crack, the foundations perish and crumble
Trapped and left wanting, the weary stay hidden behind heavy doors and rusted locks
The undeserving cling to chances untaken
There is no escape

The darkness starts to build
I welcome the storm with my fists clenched, the aching seething from my bones
I cannot show you. I cannot take you with me
The course is already written

Moving in harmony, tracers strangle out the light
The consumption of every movement greedy and unsatisfied

From the wreckage the oil runs
Turning the blood of the fallen thick and black
Quiet is the pulse of the driven
Freedom is not levity, but the untold fight of the knowing
A force understood only by those who possess it

Dare to look up
Dare to breathe
To trust the hopeful and stack your spine

No need to call to the willing, they are already at your side
No need to call them brothers, they already share your fire
The crushing allure of pure acceleration

Chase it down
Chase it down"

Prose Writer : Chloé Mclennan

I just bought a new 2014 CB1100. My first complaint is that the handle bars seem to far away, I'm over reaching and riding on the tank.
What is the best solution for this? I seems that the handle bars need to be swept back or risers installed to bring them closer to me.

Apparently revealed by Honda before the Tokyo Motor show.



Here is a write-up from [url=http://www.gaadi.com/news/honda-reveals-cb1100-concept-type-ii-98150]GAADI.COM today.

Has anyone tried the givi tanklock tankbag on their cb?
crutch

Dispite what you've heard, it's not always sunny in Philadelphia. However, we had an unseasonably sunny and warm day recently. (New normal?)

I let the boys out of the garage to see how they would react. They didn't run back in so I guess we'll have a warm early spring!

Does it matter where your bike is made? Do you expect a BMW to be manufactured in Germany? What if your Triumph is made in Thailand? Is it imaginable that Harley Davidsons could be made anywhere other than the USA ? Many manufacturers are moving manufacturing plants away from their country of origin and I wonder how bikers feel about this, does buying the brand also include the country?

Happy Birthday Chip!

I read all the time when guys are talking about bikes they've owned " wish I had never sold it". How many of you have liked a particular motorcycle so much that you bought another one of them.

I liked my 73 650 Yamaha so much I ended up buying 3 of them. The 73, a 79, and an 81. Something about that paint shaking vertical twin I just loved. Such an elemental motorcycle. A Japanese Bonneville if you will. Oil tight, reliable electronics, but not quite as good looking.

i bought a new 04 Yamaha FZ-1. Fast, handled well, good looking, a little tall for me, but one heck of a bike. I ended up selling it to my son who wanted it badly. Missed it so much went out and found a used 01, same color. Kept it until the CB1100 came along and sold it to my brother to get a CB. Even now when we are out riding together and his is on the FZ, I look at it and wish I had one lol.

Of course I sold the FZ to buy my 13 CB. When the 14 DLX came out I traded the 13 for the 14 so I have owned 2 CB1100's.

I like my ST1300 so much I wouldn't mind having another one of them with low miles on it. Mine has got almost 70,000 miles on it now. They say they will go 200,000 miles but mine is beginning to nitpick me with little repairs. Nothing major, a leaking rad hose I can't get to without tearing the bike apart, a cracked taillight lens that started cracking at a seam a couple of years ago ( there's a replacement sitting on the shelf), and now it seems my rear shock has lost it's springiness for lack of a better word ( that's about $750 to repair plus labor I think). I don't want to be bandaiding this thing along for the next 130,000 miles, and I really don't want a failure somewhere in North Dakota while on a trip.

One of my good friends has bought 5 RD350s, 3 FZ-1s and 3 Kaw Versys over the years and just texted me the other day he found a good deal on another Versys but he had just bought a BMW GSA and wasn't sure if he should buy the Versys. Lol

So how many of you have bought a bike, sold it, missed it and bought another just like it?