Well this will be the third Men's Fall Trip report I have done for this forum. Time flies when you are having motorcycling fun. For those new to the forum in the last year, each year some of the men in our family and maybe an invited guest will take a week in Sept and go for a motorcycle ride. We have been to the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Dragon and North Ga area (2009), the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (2010), West Virginia (2011), our home state of Ohio and northern Kentucky (2012) Did the Skyline Drive, BRP and back to the Dragon area again (2013), Central Kentucky (2014) and this year decided to go back to the BRP and ride some of the side roads and attractions off the Parkway you miss when you ride straight through.

We decided to get on the BRP at Fancy Gap Va MP 200 and use Little Switzerland at MP 331 as our base to ride the roads known as the Diamondback Loop (RTs 226 and 226A) and Devils whip or Devils Staircase (Rt 80) and do the Murder Mountain run from Little Switzerland up to Roan Mountain State Park in Tennessee and back all on curvy back roads. In addition we would take in Mt Mitchell, Grandfather Mountain and visit the Wheels Thru Time motorcycle Museum in Maggie Valley N.C. before heading home.

This years participants are the same as last years myself, my son B, my younger brother Randy and B's father in Law Jimmy.

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just sharing a link to a red CB1100ex video in Taiwan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwP71DZKfsw

Dear friends,

As I announced earlier, this Saturday I have made a ride to the battle fields in Leningrad region. The Blockade of Leningrad started in 08/09/1941. From the first days Red Army tryed to break it. There was number of operations during 1941-1943 in a region near Slisselburg. German command called this place as "bottle throat", because it was the narrowest point in the German defense. For example in 19/09/1941 soviet forces captured two beachheads on German side of Neva river. One of them named as "Nevsky pyatachok" was bloodiest place in Leningrad frontline. It was first point of my destination.
My ride started from cup of coffee at gasoline station
It is 35 km from Saint-Petersburg. A few kilometers before my destination I saw small wooden church and decided to stop there.
There was only one prayed old man there. My short prayer was for all people, killed there during the War.

A nice, relaxed ride across the Tagus River

https://goo.gl/maps/BDe0y

The goal was to tour the Guadiana Natural Park and enjoy the local cuisine.

We left Lisbon around 9:30 a.m., and after about 80 km of highway riding, took to the secondary roads heading south.

The bikes:



Crossing into Serpa:



We reached Serpa around 1 p.m. and had a great lunch at the “Molhó Bico” (loosely translates to “wet your beak”) restaurant. Great regional dishes centered around pork (a regional species, also available in southern Spain, called “Porco Preto”, or “Black Pork”.

Lunch:


Properly fed and watered, we headed a bit further south to an old mining town called “Mina de São Domingos” where we enjoyed the local reservoir beach. Leaving around 4 p.m., we headed west towards Mértola, crossing the Guadiana River, stopping for a couple of pictures.

After that, it was northern bound towards Lisbon and, after getting into a summer shower in Vendas Novas (it really cleared the bugs from my visor), we got home at about 8 p.m..

Really great ride all around.
Lunch continued:




Mina de São Domingos:


Mina de São Domingos continued:




And Mértola:





Heading home:

Total distance:

As I noted elsewhere on this forum, my CB1100 began exhibiting some poor fueling issues when traveling at steady speeds in lower RPMs. Installation of an O2 sensor eliminator plug immediately corrected this problem. I wasn't totally keen on leaving the eliminator installed permanently and finally got around to ordering a new oxygen sensor unit for my bike. I installed the new sensor last night. I only had time for a short test ride today and thus far everything seems fine.

A few times I caught myself thinking that there might have been the slightest amount of surging/hunting going on. Honestly, I really couldn't tell and figured that I was probably just looking for something wrong. I can't say for sure that the bike is running as smoothly now with the new sensor installed as it did with the sensor eliminator. However, I can say that it is definitely running more smoothly now than it did with the old sensor installed.

I'll give it some time and then report back on the results.

On Sunday (September 13) I spotted yet another CB1100 passing through Carver, Oregon on highway 224 around 1:00 p.m..

Anyone here?

I had to take my bike in to have an oil leak looked at. It has always leaked at a bolt in the casing under the engine hanger bolt, not a drip but more of a sweat. I had cleaned it several times and sure enough it always was present after a good ride.
Unfortunately the dealer that I took my bike to said it will take a couple weeks for Honda to approve or deny the fix.
Anyone has any experience with Honda Warranty work that was approved or denied and time frames?

Thanks in advance

Could be last time this year, hopefully I can get up there again before the snow flies. Had the day off Friday 9/11 so suited up and headed for the hills. Was kind of cold till about noon, but was perfect in the afternoon. Took a ride over Boreas Pass which goes from Breckenridge to the town of Como a few miles NW of Fairplay. First pic is looking back at the ski slopes of Breckenridge (I have lived in Co. since 1964 and never had the desire to try skiing). Boreas Pass road is about 20 mi. of gravel road, pretty smooth for the most part and not too loose. The aspen were starting to change, will look much better next week but could not get next Fri. off. This was a railroad line in the 1800's when mining was going hot and heavy. This is some real nice country up here, but no way I would live there. I couldn't have picked a better day to go for a spin. The top of the pass, 11,482 ft. I had a great day off. The CB ran perfect as usual and to my amazement it got 52 mpg. I realize most of the way back it was downhill, but I wasn't exactly wasting any time getting back to the city. The one thing I did on this bike was chucking the original tires and put on a set of Pilot road3's. What a difference.

The 2013 seat is not my favorite seat. The 2014 looks better padded, does it bolt-on to a 2013? And can anybody compare the comfort of the 2?

Has anyone used the Givi a660 universal windscreen on their cb1100