I've recently taken up painting with my Iphone.

After stopping at the war memorial I headed out the east end of Tremonton directly towards the base of the Wasatch Mt's coming within about a half mile of them in the town of Deweyville. This picture was taken on the way to Deweyville looking southeast across the prehistoric Lake Bonneville lake bed. At this point around 15,000 years ago the water was approx. 900 feet deep and covered 32,000 square miles. At that time there was an ice dam at the north end of the lake blocking Red Rock Pass in Idaho that finally gave way and at the peak of the flood water flow was somewhere around 33 million cubic feet per second at over 400 foot deep and moving at 70 mph. The peak of the flood lasted for several weeks with the flow gradually diminishing. When it was over the lake level had been lowered by 351 feet (107m) and 1,200 CUBIC miles (5,000Km3) of water had drained.

Here's a 15m video that details the flood from it's beginning as a lake and shows how the waters progressed from Red Rocks Pass, Idaho the Pacific Ocean. After about 3 minutes the photos become colorful and show some great country that you can ride through. Many off the places in here (Shoshone Falls for one I've rode my bike to). In fact, following the flood from beginning to end would be a great road trip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekpmCV5ZZU8



Once I turned south at Deweyville in a short time you come upon Crystal Hot Springs, a small locally owned resort open to the public. Its pools have lava heated waters, a large waterslide, and is opened year round. They looked like they were doing a booming business on this day. Somebody had a wood fired oven in the parking lot and was making pizza to order there. I could smell it as I passed the lot 70 yards away.



A few miles south out of Deweyville looking southeast somewhat at the ridgeline above Brigham city



This shot shows the north end of Main Street in Brigham City facing south. Two bikes (a Yamaha and Harley) came by me and can be seen in the pic. At this point I've closed the loop and am heading back on the route I came out on that's described in my first two parts posted in this section.



I passed Maddox, a local institution on the way home just south of Brigham City. This place elevates home made food to another level. Almost everything is locally sourced and started out decades ago as a family run fried chicken joint building the business into a much larger enterprise with virtual fans. The raspberry butter and basket of homemade breads and rolls alone has people standing in long lines during the weekends.


The bike ran like a champ, cars were few and far between, and the weather was close to perfect.

interesting turn of events... lol

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/2016/03/e...ent-309182

[url=https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z5L5SB6CRw2M.kapOCRuwUR-U&usp=sharing]Link to map

Brisbane lies on a plain on the banks of Moreton Bay and the Brisbane River. To the north and west of the city are modest mountains—hills, really by US, European, NZ and Asian standards, but the best we’ve got. They are favourites of Brisbane riders as they offer generally good road surfaces, not too much traffic and respite from straight. I’ve written about most of them before.

Friday 26 February promised to be stinking hot—mid 30s Celsius, almost at the point where riding becomes unpleasant. Nonetheless, sanity dictated that a ride was in order. Living temporarily in the city meant getting out; but making a bit of an effort would balance the flat, straight bits with appropriate rewards.

So I set off in an anticlockwise loop that would take me north over an old favourite, Mt Mee. From where I’m living, it is not long at all until the worst of the city is behind and the road winds gently through the eucalypts.



And the distant mountains come into view.



Pretty soon I’m through Samford and Dayboro and winding my way up the southern slopes of Mt Mee. The road surface is not wonderful; even so, at 60 kph, the speed limit is generally too low. Still, it’s a good challenge trying to ride through some of the tight curves pretty much at the speed limit. I need more practice.

The Pitstop Café offers commanding views of the valley below. I enjoyed them with a cup of coffee and a scone.


Looking south south east into the Brisbane Valley. The city is on the horizon just outside the left of the photo. I didn’t take a picture because the heat made it too hazy to make a zoom shot worth while






Bikes at the Pitstop. Someone loved the MT01


The MT01 went past me after a while and shortly after vanished completely. I hope he was simply a much better rider than me and took to the twisties on the northern side of Mt Mee with gusto

Instead of following the main road from Woodford to Kilcoy I took the prettier, more heavily speed limited but interesting Neurum Road.


Finally managed to get one of those mirror shots to work

Neurum Road runs along the top of the eastern end of the Somerset Dam, part of the water supply system for Brisbane. It is also designed to help with flood mitigation in the downstream Brisbane River Valley. In January 2011 a serious downpour landed on top of heavy rains in December and an already full dam. The flood mitigation didn’t work as well as planned and Brisbane was badly flooded, causing the inundation of 20,000 + homes and in excess of AU$2 billion in damage. At the wettest station in Brisbane, 354 mm of rain fell n January; of that, 112 mm fell on one day. The average monthly rainfall for January at that station is 123 mm.

As an aside, the town about 9km from where I live recorded 855 mm for January 2011, more than three times the average of 236 mm. It was wet that year.

As I rode by in 2016 the level was down a bit.


The level of the Somerset Dam is falling.


In this picture, taken from the west of the dam, you can see the line between the dam surface and the tree line. The gap represents a good deal of water.

I decided it was too hot to stop in Kilcoy; as I’ve yet to find a café that would make it worth while, so I pressed on. It’s a pretty ride beside the dam until one reaches the hamlet of Somerset Dam. Nature required me to get off the bike for a moment.




Of course the facilities and the shop in Somerset Dam are separated by a distance too far to walk; by the time I’d eaten a meat pie and drunk a bottle of water, I had to leap on the bike for a relieving dash down the street before returning to the shop for petrol.


The Australian meat pie with tomato sauce—a great staple


In the moment between relief and returning for petrol

Then it was on to the fast and pretty road alongside the Wivenhoe Dam (into which the Somerset Dam feeds). I have thought of it as boring, but the more often I ride it, the more I appreciate the aspect and the sweeping curves. I paused to take a palindromic milestone shot.



Then it was onto the Northbrook Parkway, past Red Cedar and White Cedar (see [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=7979]this earlier report and up the glorious twisties to the top of the eponymous mountain into the welcome shade provided by the trees beside the road.



Then it was back down the oft-reported Mt Nebo Road and back to Brisbane. There’s a view of the city in the background of early (but now gentrified) housing as I approach home.

Guth & Ferret

Here's a couple of links to on-line owner's manuals that are better than nothing if you acquire a CB1100 without the original. I wonder if it's worth making this a sticky thread and others can add to the catalogue if they come across others?

The Australian 2010 CB1100A Owner's Manual is at http://www.hondampe.com.au/docs/owning_a...A2010.pdf.

A 2011 Owner's Manual is at http://www.classiccycles.org/1852/3722.html (You have to search for it and it's called the Owner's Maintenance Instruction Manual)

An English language 2013 CB1100A Owner's Manual is at http://www.hme-tc.be/TRG_LIB/NM2013/CB11...OM_ENG.pdf

Images from a ride around the Wachusett reservoir. I set the gopro to take an image every 0.5 second and pulled a few to share.

Actually I love both of my cats but I would like to know if anyone has ever been able to gut the inside of their catalytic converter. Could you access it by reaching in from the outlet and perhaps knock the insides out with a good sized bar? Just wondering if anyone has tried yet.

modmaster

Pics of last year from one of my Facebook photo albums. If you're not on Facebook, no need to tell me again. I don't care what century you prefer to live in....

[url=https://www.facebook.com/james.lucia.16/media_set?set=a.967456559951743.1073741892.100000622234276&type=3]https://www.facebook.com/james.lucia.16/...276&type=3

From Bikeweek 2015

After riding my '13 CB1100 for 15 month now, I'm really considering to move on to a CBF1000F.

While I really like the basic ride on the CB1100, I started to doubt already some time ago, if this was really the right bike for me.

I did some modifications to suit it to my needs as a frequent and high mileage rider:[ul] [li]national cycle wind shield[/li] [li]fender extender[/li] [li]rear rack[/li] [li]sidebags
[/li][/ul] However, most annoying to me is the short fuel range, fill up every 200-220 km and low quality of the model I got, combined with high necessary cleaning effort.

Here are some recent pics:

Rust at ABS front ring:


Engine color flaking, last summer:


Engine color flaking, current state:


There is also rust below the fenders and at the lower bridge.

Well, so I discovered the CBF1000F and had a test ride last Saturday. In short, the bike rides like a CB1100, but is a little bit better in every respect, like power, really quite behind the fairing, has about 400 km fuel range, but definitely not the charme of a CB1100 (at least to me).

Currently Honda Germany is offering the CBF1000F at a very aggressiv price: 9,450 Euro for a brand new motorcycle out of the door.

http://de.honda.de/motorraeder/modelle_cbf1000f.php

I think I would take this color:


Here is a review by motorcycle:
http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/motorcycles/2012models/2012-Honda-CBF1000A.htm

The downside is, I wouldn't get a really good price for my CB1100 as there is low demand and it has already nearly 30,000 km on the clock.

Now I have some hard time thinking about it.

Decisions, decisions...