Just out of curiosity is the CB1100 engine in any way related the the CBR 1100 (blackbird) engine? I know one is air cooled and no doubt the Blackbird is water cooled.

Hello everyone,
I have a low mile 2016 CB1100 EX, which I am very pleased with. Got the opportunity to buy a low mile 2019 model, but I have never ridden it yet. Any pro’s or con’s?

Had someone read the OBD for me, and this is what we got.

“Communication serial” “power to cluster”.

I did noticed a hard start so I may try a new battery as I believe mines the original. I’ll check around the wires leading from the cluster to the battery too, but any advice on what to inspect if appreciate. Honda dealer is booked 6 months out and there’s only one dealer within 150miles…

I have a CB1100 ex ca 2017

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Hey All,

I just bought a 2013 CB1100 so I'm new here. I'm not sure if mine has ABS or if abs was an option, I'm guessing mine doesn't have it since I don't see an abs light come on when I first start the bike.

I would like to buy a rack which I found at webike, and it seems there is on;y 1 or 2 left. It looks like a perfect solution for a problem I don't have. Here is a photo:


Problem is, it is designed for the earlier SC65 models, and mine is a EX. The latches where the bolts attach under the seat are in a slightly different position.
Long story short, would anybody know how difficult it might be for a well equipped shop to bend it into shape (if needed) or add an adapter to make the latches positions fit my SC78 ? My guess, it cannot be too difficult since the shape of the CB's frame (under the seat) has not changed between 2013 and 2017.
But I wouldn't mind a 2nd opinion.

Weather forecast is good for a ride to Taos, tomorrow.
Route selected should provide the most mountain miles.

I've retired from M/C forums, after 21 years of posting, but thought I would do one more post on my favorite forum.

Over 3,000 miles on the V7-850 since May.

Hi folks long time no post but here's my Insta360 x3 experience.

I've been on the fence a long time about buying one of these 360 cameras and watched a lot of you tube vids and finally decided to order the latest 360x3 with the bike kit and lens protector kit and two extra batteries and charger at the great expense of £577

All happy so far and it came well packaged and on time from Amazon.

Kitchen table full of kit and slowly learning the camera features etc. First thing put the lens protectors on because its hard to put the camera down without one lens being in contact with the surface its on and its not stable to stand on its end. The protectors come pre glued and stick on well but with these on the camera pouch and lens cover do not fit as the camera is now to wide

Switch the camera on to learn the menus and play around to find the recording function is locked and needs the 360app on my phone to unlock it ?
Easy I guess so try to download the app to be greeted with the message your 2018 android phone is to old for this app so download button is greyed out.

I did not want or need a new phone but to unlock, update, register and use this camera the app is needed so after much thought decided to buy a 2022 phone for a further £650

The camera is now unlocked, registered and updated and first ride planned with phone mounted on the invisible selfie stick in front of the bike so I can view forward and back and switch between me riding and where I'm going. I didn't set my helmet mic up at this time. I chose 3k not the 5.7k mode to save space on the memory card and tried to view footage on the small camera screen to see the message this needs to be viewed via the phone app. So blue tooth on, paired up and footage was visible ok. Tried to to do some editing via the app but was fiddly but yep could switch fwd & rear views easy but phone and camera got really hot and phone battery went down very quickly.

I always planned on using the free desktop editing studio from 360 so started to download to my desktop pc to be met with message this pc is not suitable with a list of minimum specs showing, mine was a long way short of these and a new pc was in the £1200 price range Looking at my laptop specs I was closer to the minimum and was hopeful if I upgraded the ram a little it would be ok, so extra ram bought and fitted and the 360 studio was downloaded.

I imported 45 mins of footage to play around with but the studio was very basic and laggy so I struggled but finished with 25 mins of footage to export to desktop, then the message popped up this will take 60 hours to convert and export due to low processing power
I did think about using a different editor but the 360 footage can only be used on the app or 360 studio and then needs to be converted to mp4 and exported for other viewing and editing. So the camera is fixed to the 360 software it seems until converted by it.

I've now sent the 360 camera back to Amazon for a refund and I would say to anyone thinking of buying one ... do not... unless you have a recent high spec phone and a top of the range gaming spec pc for editing.

I can make very good videos with my old phone and my desktop with windows movie maker so why did I bother with 2 weeks of 360 stress

Not just the tank color, but the combination of tank, side covers and engine paint scheme made a huge difference to the look of each CB1100. And you don't see it, unless you see them side by side. Here come pictures of 2013 standard, DLX, and EX for comparison.

I have tried to find images with neutral background, rather then mountains, lakes, or stunning man made structures. Ignored RS color schemes (not available in the U.S.) or late EX models which simply added a white stripe to the tank.

Which color schemes you like best ?

Early models in red, black and white
or or

EX models from 2017
or or

Final Edition colors in 2020/21
or

You can easily find a collage of many models, different angles of shooting, different backgrounds by going to Startpage.com, type "images CB1100), and select images only in the menu bar after the list of pages shows.