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RE: CB1100 Scrambler - Charlie Bravo_imp - 10-03-2023

I have a bud whose Dad put knobby tires on a mid-60's Triumph Bonneville and rode it all over Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He also had a Road King for highway use. I bought a Honda CL 450 Scrambler back in the day, but never took it off pavement. It was the bike I could afford at the time. Not so long ago I bought a Suzuki V-Strom 1000 with intentions of accompanying my BIL on semi-off road rides, but for various reasons it didn't happen, but I liked the beast for pavement work. For now, tho, my Honda CB1100 and Yamaha V-Star 1300 keep me grinning.

RE: CB1100 Scrambler - GoldOxide_imp - 11-16-2023

(10-03-2023, 04:18 AM)m in sc_imp Wrote: my 21 CT125 is def more capable off road or (specifically) in gravel than that CB:

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(and it isnt great off road)

my new xr is actually -quite- good off road, even at a paltry 150cc.

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ive even had this dinosaur off road more than I probably should have...

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and they ALL did better than my CB ever did off road

this was literally 4-5 miles in off the cherohala heading up to a trailhead i didn't intend to go up with angie on the back. It was -terrible- but it made it.

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the 1st half mile was pleasant gravel as was the last 1/4 mile. in between was rutted, trashed, unmaintained basically reduced to one-high-one-low tracking with huge ruts & washouts. I easily have the most patient wife in the world, i literally launched her off the seat at 1 point getting to this point creeping up the hill, it was awful. According to her, was the only time she was ever nervous on a bike with me, and it was easily the slowest ride time we had ever done.

CB1100 = pavement. Biker CB1100 with knobbies: posing.

Are you still lubbing it m in sc? Man, I really like that little lump.