On the bike at 10:00 am, 42F, light breeze, cloudy and cool.

Home by noon, 53F, blue skies and light breeze.

Total: ~ 59 miles

All country roads... just beautiful.

I LOVE THIS BIKE!

I have covered 9000 miles since taking delivery of my CB back in March of last year and I am extremely pleased with most aspects of the bike however I have had reason to question the quality of the suspension. The problem probably lies with me rather than the bike as I sometimes push the bike in a way it was not meant to be ridden. Riding with friends on more modern machinery, the pace sometimes becomes a little competitive and here in the UK we don't have many straight roads and I've felt the bike to be not quite as sure footed as I would like it to be and not as positive of other bikes I've owned. With this in mind I have invested in new suspension all round from Maxton Engineering. The front forks were stripped out completely and Maxton internals were fitted comprising of their cartridges, springs and preload spacers and I now have control of rebound damping via a small screw in the centre of the fork leg cap. The rear shockers also have rebound adjustment via a wheel at the top of the unit and more sensitive preload adjustment by way of a wheel at the base of the shocker. The rear shockers have been designed to be 10mm taller than the Honda units as Maxton considered the fork rake angle to be rather stretched. The taller shocks tighten the rake angle to give sharper steering and a slightly more sporty riding position. The whole system was set up on Maxton's rolling road with my weight simulated on the bike. All I need now is some dry, warm weather to test it out.

I was surprised by the design of the Honda front suspension - see my Thread 'Weird Suspension Design'

do any of you guys have a power commander 5 map for a full exhaust system?. I only saw 2 on the power commander website, one stock map and a slip-on map.

I'm certain this subject has been covered in one form or another but I've had little to no success finding adequate info using the Search feature... hence this Thread.

So, allow me to just take a poll... What do You use?

Spray-on Chemicals
Kerosene
WD-40
Water & brush
Other

In my continual efforts to help you all spend your hard earned money once again I stumbled across something of interest.

http://www.racetech.com/Newsfeed/2016/01...ech-Setup!

Go for it someone and let us know how it works out! This may be just the ticket to upgrade the forks now that I already have a set of shocks.

Aloha,
Huladog

I spotted a black CB1100 yesterday around 4:13pm going northbound on the Pasadena 110 fwy. We were approaching the Ave 43 exit. Anyone from this forum by any chance?

For those riders in Texas, the following may be of interest.

I'm planning on attending one of the days shown.

[url=http://links.honda.mkt015.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MTI1NjM3NDQS1&r=MTI2NTkzMDMyNjIxS0&j=NjYzMTY1MjU4S0&mt=1&rt=0]http://links.honda.mkt015.com/servlet/Ma...&mt=1&rt=0

Today I collected my bike from Maxton Engineering (UK) where I've had their suspension fitted front and back. I'll do a report on that once I've got a few enthusiastic twisty miles under my belt but in the mean time I wonder if anyone can explain the unusual front suspension design that is fitted by Honda to the CB1100, it certainly caused a raised eyebrow at Maxton although they had occassionally seen this kind of thing before. Why would Honda fit different length springs to each of the fork legs and compensate by using odd length spacers? Are all CB1100's so equipped and if so, can anyone explain the engineering criteria behind such a design?

Gentlemen,

the year 2015 is over, but we don't want to waste the many miles of fun, we rode the last year at such a great motorcycle.

Let's collect them in a google spreadsheet, I've created for us for that purpose:

[url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qQ7PiWjcxwynQ4qZQF4WqfgrUDSZSdoxfdciLWesB0o/edit?usp=sharing]cb1100forum mileage 2015

Just enter the miles OR km, you rode 2015, and the odometer of your motorcycle at the end of the year in a row at the bottom of the spreadsheet.

Don't bother about sorting or formatting. I will do this for you from time to time.

Have fun.

I've had this on my calendar for a while...thought others might like it.

https://www.mecum.com/featured-lots.cfm?...motorcycle

It says Jan 7-9th, but I could only find 3 hrs of it on my DVR search for the Sat the 9th on NBCSN channel 5 PM....I'm assuming that is corrected to my CST when Las Vegas is on PT I think.

From the list, it looks like over 700 Vintage motorcycles are to be auctioned.

I hope they are putting all 3 days into one show!