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Recycling the CB1100 - Red Mist_imp - 04-14-2014
Looks like we are having quite a few members selling their red 2013 CB1100s. Of course, the good news is that those bikes will become sweet, sweet deals as used bikes for new CB1100 owners, who will (if they are sharp cookies) flock to this website in their teeming hordes, to soak up the year's worth of accumulated wisdom we've got on tap!
Honestly, I don't know exactly when it happened, but somehow, I something just clicked for me with the respect to CB1100, and it's grown on me something serious.
Mebbe it's when I named him Cap'n Kidd, which is big and ornery as any piece of horseflesh can be but which will get you wherever you're going and no mistake.
RE: Recycling the CB1100 - thumper_imp - 04-14-2014
"Teeming hordes" flocking to the website?!?!
Well, there goes the neighborhood!
RE: Recycling the CB1100 - Tortuga_imp - 04-14-2014
(04-14-2014, 02:28 AM)Red Mist_imp Wrote: Looks like we are having quite a few members selling their red 2013 CB1100s. Of course, the good news is that those bikes will become sweet, sweet deals as used bikes for new CB1100 owners, who will (if they are sharp cookies) flock to this website in their teeming hordes, to soak up the year's worth of accumulated wisdom we've got on tap!
Honestly, I don't know exactly when it happened, but somehow, I something just clicked for me with the respect to CB1100, and it's grown on me something serious.
Mebbe it's when I named him Cap'n Kidd, which is big and ornery as any piece of horseflesh can be but which will get you wherever you're going and no mistake.
I know EXACTLY what you mean Red. I sat on one in a dealership I was visiting casually with a mate last March. I literally came over all Dewey eyed and didn't want to get off the bike. Maybe because I was born in '72 I just remember looking at similar shaped bikes as a nipper and it hit an emotional chord.
The same could be said for bikes like the Guzzi V7 but I sat on that and just thought "yeah it's small and alright". In fact I felt a bit of a tit perched on it since I'm 6'1 and 200 odd pounds (all muscle).
Since I bought the bike without riding it I was investing a lot in hopes, dreams and expectations (sounds like a Phil Collins album), but boy oh not did the gamble pay off!
I love the 2013 CB1100 like a child.
RE: Recycling the CB1100 - shdwghst457_imp - 04-15-2014
Who else is glad that this isn't a thread about a scrapped CB being parted out?
Recycling the CB1100 - Capo - 04-15-2014
It does seem like an unusual number of CB's are getting flipped early in their life. And at a significant loss. I'm not attributing it to any one thing, but the CB is definitely an emotional purchase rather than a spec- sheet buy. Perhaps the lust wears off for some? Not for me!
RE: Recycling the CB1100 - the Ferret - 04-15-2014
Not for me either Capo. The perfect bike for me where I am in my life right now.
RE: Recycling the CB1100 - bubblerboy64_imp - 04-16-2014
(04-15-2014, 11:45 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Not for me either Capo. The perfect bike for me where I am in my life right now.
Lots and lots of bikes are sold within a year of purchase. For many it's moving UP for some like me it's moving DOWN. Rarely does it indicate a problem with the machine.
Some folks buy motorcycles and find there are disadvantages to a motorcycle. (No need to get into the specifics of that) but I believe almost every dealership will have at least a couple of almost new/used bikes in their showrooms. At least that's been my experience.
RE: Recycling the CB1100 - shdwghst457_imp - 04-16-2014
Agreed. I traded in my Shadow at 1500 miles to the dealership where I bought it. Also, I'm apparently the only person who ever wanted that bike as it's still sitting on the sales floor there!
RE: Recycling the CB1100 - ride4now_imp - 04-16-2014
I've purchased 5 bikes in the last 11 years... 3 of which
I still have. The 2 I replaced were not because there was anything
wrong with them... I just liked the next generation of the CB better
and the Sportster turned out to be too small and buzzy. It was the
first bike I had bought in 20+ years. I also did it once with a car
trading in a TransAm for a Thunderbird TurboCoupe. I thought I
was driving my dad's car! 1 year later I traded it in on a Corvette.
I kept that car 12 years.... my Superglide for 10 years so far and
I fully expect to keep my Deluxe for a long time. Sometimes, as I did,
people just make a mistake and need to fix it. Perfectly normal in
my book.
RE: Recycling the CB1100 - enzo_imp - 04-16-2014
Long live good taste and appreciation.