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RE: Nice restoration, what year is it? - Tortuga_imp - 05-09-2014
(05-08-2014, 10:04 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: And Gladys, also short of sight, says, "And I'm glad you don't have one so often any more."
You've become quite the comedian of late mate.
Speciality seems to be knobs and erections. Which is good!
RE: Nice restoration, what year is it? - Cormanus - 05-09-2014
(05-09-2014, 11:28 AM)Tortuga_imp Wrote:(05-08-2014, 10:04 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: And Gladys, also short of sight, says, "And I'm glad you don't have one so often any more."
You've become quite the comedian of late mate.
Speciality seems to be knobs and erections. Which is good!
There was a time when they went together.
RE: Nice restoration, what year is it? - Tortuga_imp - 05-09-2014
Precisely!
RE: Nice restoration, what year is it? - dave - 05-10-2014
I had a couple park next to me (they were driving a car) and the husband and I picked up a conversation about the CB. He asked what year it was and when I told him it was brand new, a 2014, his wife immediately exclaimed "he told me that was a vintage!" She proceeded to take a picture of the CB! Had a guy in a car at a stop light tell me that "he owned a bike just like that once"; you should have seen the look on his face when I told him it was a 2014 model!
RE: Nice restoration, what year is it? - Rocky_imp - 05-10-2014
(05-10-2014, 12:35 AM)Dave_imp Wrote: I had a couple park next to me (they were driving a car) and the husband and I picked up a conversation about the CB. He asked what year it was and when I told him it was brand new, a 2014, his wife immediately exclaimed "he told me that was a vintage!" She proceeded to take a picture of the CB! Had a guy in a car at a stop light tell me that "he owned a bike just like that once"; you should have seen the look on his face when I told him it was a 2014 model!
I think all these similar replies prove that Honda got it right since the CB fools so many people.
I love the retro look and I've had a lot of similar experiences with my Bonneville.
The first time I even heard of a CB1100 was a picture in a bike magazine. I was immediatly lusting for one, but they weren't available in Canada yet - not until 2013.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I missed getting one last year, but with the six-speed, standard ABS and the improved digital display, I'm rather glad I had to wait a year.
RE: Nice restoration, what year is it? - Tortuga_imp - 05-10-2014
(05-10-2014, 01:03 AM)Rocky_imp Wrote:(05-10-2014, 12:35 AM)Dave_imp Wrote: I had a couple park next to me (they were driving a car) and the husband and I picked up a conversation about the CB. He asked what year it was and when I told him it was brand new, a 2014, his wife immediately exclaimed "he told me that was a vintage!" She proceeded to take a picture of the CB! Had a guy in a car at a stop light tell me that "he owned a bike just like that once"; you should have seen the look on his face when I told him it was a 2014 model!
I think all these similar replies prove that Honda got it right since the CB fools so many people.
I love the retro look and I've had a lot of similar experiences with my Bonneville.
The first time I even heard of a CB1100 was a picture in a bike magazine. I was immediatly lusting for one, but they weren't available in Canada yet - not until 2013.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I missed getting one last year, but with the six-speed, standard ABS and the improved digital display, I'm rather glad I had to wait a year.
I think all these similar replies prove that Honda got it right since the CB fools so many people.
I love the retro look and I've had a lot of similar experiences with my Bonneville.
The first time I even heard of a CB1100 was a picture in a bike magazine. I was immediatly lusting for one, but they weren't available in Canada yet - not until 2013.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I missed getting one last year, but with the six-speed, standard ABS and the improved digital display, I'm rather glad I had to wait a year.
I too fell in love at first sight.
I however got C-ABS luckily on my 2013.
How is the new dash better? I love mine. Really clear day or night.
RE: Nice restoration, what year is it? - Rocky_imp - 05-10-2014
I too fell in love at first sight.
I however got C-ABS luckily on my 2013.
How is the new dash better? I love mine. Really clear day or night.
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To tell the truth I have never seen a 2013, just heard/read that the display is "improved."
My '14 has a gear position indicator, fuel gauge, clock, odometer and a series of fuel/distance related displays that can be brought up with two buttons.
RE: Nice restoration, what year is it? - Tortuga_imp - 05-10-2014
(05-10-2014, 05:52 AM)Rocky_imp Wrote: I too fell in love at first sight.
I however got C-ABS luckily on my 2013.
How is the new dash better? I love mine. Really clear day or night.
To tell the truth I have never seen a 2013, just heard/read that the display is "improved."
My '14 has a gear position indicator, fuel gauge, clock, odometer and a series of fuel/distance related displays that can be brought up with two buttons.
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To tell the truth I have never seen a 2013, just heard/read that the display is "improved."
My '14 has a gear position indicator, fuel gauge, clock, odometer and a series of fuel/distance related displays that can be brought up with two buttons.
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I lack the gear indicator but don't miss it. Only had one bike with it and seldom looked at it.
I have a fuel gauge which is nice.
Fuel and distance info is also missing. I have a clock, odo, and trip.
All the things I ever use I have so I'm content. The new one seems a little more aimed at the iPhone generation. I wouldn't swap mine. Not for this reason, but because of the woeful new switchgear. Ask the ferret....
Nice restoration, what year is it? - Cormanus - 05-10-2014
(05-10-2014, 05:56 AM)Tortuga_imp Wrote:(05-10-2014, 05:52 AM)Rocky_imp Wrote: I too fell in love at first sight.
I however got C-ABS luckily on my 2013.
How is the new dash better? I love mine. Really clear day or night.
To tell the truth I have never seen a 2013, just heard/read that the display is "improved."
My '14 has a gear position indicator, fuel gauge, clock, odometer and a series of fuel/distance related displays that can be brought up with two buttons.
To tell the truth I have never seen a 2013, just heard/read that the display is "improved."
My '14 has a gear position indicator, fuel gauge, clock, odometer and a series of fuel/distance related displays that can be brought up with two buttons.
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I lack the gear indicator but don't miss it. Only had one bike with it and seldom looked at it.
I have a fuel gauge which is nice.
Fuel and distance info is also missing. I have a clock, odo, and trip.
All the things I ever use I have so I'm content. The new one seems a little more aimed at the iPhone generation. I wouldn't swap mine. Not for this reason, but because of the woeful new switchgear. Ask the ferret....
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Geez, mate, leave the Ferret alone and let his blood pressure settle a bit after the hammering you have him yesterday.
RE: Nice restoration, what year is it? - davidsargee_imp - 05-10-2014
(05-08-2014, 10:04 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: And Gladys, also short of sight, says, "And I'm glad you don't have one so often any more."
I was in the Dr's office last week, rode my CB. When I left, a guy in the waiting room asked if I was riding the Honda CB1100, (I was carrying my helmet). He said that he was parked next to me, and asked a bunch of questions about the bike, he had clearly been researching the CB1100. He said that he recently purchased his bike, but that they "don't make'em like they used to", and he is considering trading it in on something else,
The Dr's office we were at is in a complex in a hospital. Huge parking lot, and very unlikely to be going to the same office. When I got to my bike, there was a shiny new H-D Road King parked next to it,.......odd.