(05-13-2017, 01:29 PM)QimmiQ_imp Wrote: I have one of the somewhat rare 2016 black checkerboard Canada models. I had heard there were very few brought to Canada and were actually a "special" edition bike in Japan that landed here. I bought mine in Moncton, New Brunswick on the east coast but the dealer thought it came from Quebec. Would love to know the true story on these.

I was taking photos the other day of the serial numbers and stickers. I noticed that the sticker on the stem had the same serial as the one engraved plus extra three digits at the end. What's up with the that? Also right next to the model number there is the date 9/16. Is that the manufacturer date or the date of arrival into Canada . Either way seems late in the year. There are only a couple months left in the season at that point.


2016 Honda CB1100

(05-13-2017, 01:29 PM)QimmiQ_imp Wrote: I have one of the somewhat rare 2016 black checkerboard Canada models. I had heard there were very few brought to Canada and were actually a "special" edition bike in Japan that landed here. I bought mine in Moncton, New Brunswick on the east coast but the dealer thought it came from Quebec. Would love to know the true story on these.

I was taking photos the other day of the serial numbers and stickers. I noticed that the sticker on the stem had the same serial as the one engraved plus extra three digits at the end. What's up with the that? Also right next to the model number there is the date 9/16. Is that the manufacturer date or the date of arrival into Canada . Either way seems late in the year. There are only a couple months left in the season at that point.


2016 Honda CB1100

(05-16-2017, 06:02 AM)Banned_imp Wrote:

(05-13-2017, 01:29 PM)QimmiQ_imp Wrote: I have one of the somewhat rare 2016 black checkerboard Canada models. I had heard there were very few brought to Canada and were actually a "special" edition bike in Japan that landed here. I bought mine in Moncton, New Brunswick on the east coast but the dealer thought it came from Quebec. Would love to know the true story on these.

I was taking photos the other day of the serial numbers and stickers. I noticed that the sticker on the stem had the same serial as the one engraved plus extra three digits at the end. What's up with the that? Also right next to the model number there is the date 9/16. Is that the manufacturer date or the date of arrival into Canada . Either way seems late in the year. There are only a couple months left in the season at that point.


2016 Honda CB1100

That is my local dealer (I live outside Moncton), I looked at that bike and thought about buying it but I already have a blacked out bike (HD Night Train) so I really wanted a 2014 blue one. Yours is one of 3 CB1100As I have seen in the flesh at the dealer, never seen one in the wild.

(05-16-2017, 06:16 AM)Ridem32_imp Wrote:

(05-16-2017, 06:02 AM)Banned_imp Wrote:

(05-13-2017, 01:29 PM)QimmiQ_imp Wrote: I have one of the somewhat rare 2016 black checkerboard Canada models. I had heard there were very few brought to Canada and were actually a "special" edition bike in Japan that landed here. I bought mine in Moncton, New Brunswick on the east coast but the dealer thought it came from Quebec. Would love to know the true story on these.

I was taking photos the other day of the serial numbers and stickers. I noticed that the sticker on the stem had the same serial as the one engraved plus extra three digits at the end. What's up with the that? Also right next to the model number there is the date 9/16. Is that the manufacturer date or the date of arrival into Canada . Either way seems late in the year. There are only a couple months left in the season at that point.


2016 Honda CB1100

That is my local dealer (I live outside Moncton), I looked at that bike and thought about buying it but I already have a blacked out bike (HD Night Train) so I really wanted a 2014 blue one. Yours is one of 3 CB1100As I have seen in the flesh at the dealer, never seen one in the wild.

That is my local dealer (I live outside Moncton), I looked at that bike and thought about buying it but I already have a blacked out bike (HD Night Train) so I really wanted a 2014 blue one. Yours is one of 3 CB1100As I have seen in the flesh at the dealer, never seen one in the wild.

Wow that one dealership had 3 of those bikes? I would love to see the vin #,s off all 3 of them. That's seems rare to me


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(05-17-2017, 12:58 PM)QimmiQ_imp Wrote: So I'm not trying to be quaint (I work all day in IT at a university) but I am always surprised at what a small world it can be and how technology can connect the dots even further.

I wasn't a big fan of the spencer blue (sorry) but went to look at the bike last fall. I have been pining for the CB1100. See the pic below. My wife told me to buy it before I left the house and I took the afternoon off work and rode down on my CB 750 thinking I would. But they weren't being flexible on the price and wanted $500+ for freight and PDI which they had dropped from the rest of the 2014s. It also had 100 km on it. I left less than impressed, my CB110 dreams in tatters.


Then the blacked checkerboard showed up at the bike show at a great price with $300 in dealer store credit and no freight costs. Love at first site. I bought it the next morning.

Things always seem to work out as they should. Glad you didn't buy the 2016, W/R.

Cormanus, yes my VIN frame stamp ends in 057 also. Cable in the way.