Average CB1100 Rider Age

[ish_imp]

I thought chicks would dig the timeless classic look, but all I get are bunch older gentleman coming up to me at gas stations to talk about the bike (which i don't mind).

[Xyzzy_imp]

I'm 45 years old and have been riding for four years.

I'm trying to make up for all of those years I didn't ride! (What was I thinking?)

[Frulk_imp]

I thought chicks would dig the timeless classic look, but all I get are bunch older gentleman coming up to me at gas stations to talk about the bike (which i don't mind).

They do! You just need to option out the CB till it looks like Sean Connery

[Novice_imp]

I thought chicks would dig the timeless classic look, but all I get are bunch older gentleman coming up to me at gas stations to talk about the bike (which i don't mind).

They probably like the color and the fact that it's a motorcycle but that's about as deep as it goes for many. Hence the reason we're all here talking to each other about our bikes.

[Cormanus]

Blimey! This discussion's been going for 2 years and I've joined the 60 and over club. Good on you young 'uns for buying a great bike.

[grayta_imp]

LOLOL Welcome to my last few years on the Bonnie.

I thought chicks would dig the timeless classic look, but all I get are bunch older gentleman coming up to me at gas stations to talk about the bike (which i don't mind).

[Ghis_imp]

I'M 42. At 23, a friend of mine (back in '95 or '96) had bought an old CB750 FOUR for $800, even though he had no room at his house for it yet. Naturally he left it on my driveway, left me with the key, and said "take it around the block". I nearly dropped that thing, but this was my first interaction with a real bike. I have loved those CBs ever since. When they announced the retro CB1100, I wanted one, but I already had a Harley. I sold that Harley for a bigger Harley, then sold the Harley, for a smaller bike, and a car for my kid. I was looking at both the CB and the Triumph Scrambler, but went with the Scrambler which was much cheaper, and it was all I could afford. That was back in 2013. In 2014, I was in a position to buy another Harley. In 2015 I found myself at the dealer where I had first seen the CB, and that exact same CB I had sat on 2 years earlier was still there, unsold! This time I couldn't let it go, so I bought it. How? I traded the '14 Harley for it! Bam, got my CB! By then it had 200 miles on it, but I didn't care. I'm not letting that CB go ever. It's the first CB1100 year on the US market, and probably from an early shipment, since its number is 67. I won't trade it for a 14, or anything that ever comes after that. I will have another Harley again, at some point, but the CB is here to stay, right next to the Triumph.

[Motogeezer1949_imp]

Nice story Ghis

[Redbird_imp]

I'm 75, been riding motorcycles since 18. The CB just feels right to me.

[Stratus_imp]

I'll be turning 50 in the fall. It wasn't until I turned 40 that I finally decided it was time to begin riding. I gave up flying at the same time and have found the motorcycle experience to be a wonderful replacement for the aviation bug (and much more affordable). My wife kids that anything I decided to do after aviation seems cheap by comparison