True Confessions of CB1100 Riders

[Ridem32_imp]

Lol Guth. 2 inches is a lot of air on any street bike!!!
Guth: the older guy that had the SL350 he moved to Portland back in the late 80,s. He then rode a bicycle back to Mississippi! That's a long bicycle ride for sure but he made it lol

[jodyz_imp]

Lol Guth. 2 inches is a lot of air on any street bike!!!
Guth: the older guy that had the SL350 he moved to Portland back in the late 80,s. He then rode a bicycle back to Mississippi! That's a long bicycle ride for sure but he made it lol

That's what she said!
Not really.

[OldF7Guy_imp]

I was at a friends house the other day and was ready to leave and a stranger pulled up out front. I was so distracted with who it was and what his business was I put the NH in gear not once but twice with the kickstand down and killed the engine. How stupid was that????

[CB4ME_imp]

I was at a friends house the other day and was ready to leave and a stranger pulled up out front. I was so distracted with who it was and what his business was I put the NH in gear not once but twice with the kickstand down and killed the engine. How stupid was that????

This only happens to me when a crowd of admirers are watching for me to take off down the road in grand style. Duh!

[Aussie_imp]

I confess that I've swapped back to the OEM pipe from the Staintune just to give my ears a bit of a break (temporarily? ). If I only rode every now and then I'd leave it on, but as I ride pretty much everyday in the city it's just a tad loud and I'm sick of having to put foam earplugs in just to ride to work, cafe, gym etc...(still love the Staintune for the hills!) Took about 5 min to swap over so it's not a big deal...but..

my real confession is that I'm enjoying having the OEM pipe on again much more than I thought I would! It's so whisper quiet and peaceful that it puts me in a zen state and I find myself waving to people at bus stops My hooligan factor is close to 0!

[rboe]

I find I need plugs for the Griso all the time. On the Honda, not so much but do so out of habit.

[the Ferret]

Hate it when my hooligan factor drops, but for us older men, there are meds for that now.

[Pauley]

I have a stock exhaust and with tight fitting foam earplugs and helmet on, I can't hear my bike after I get out of 1st gear. I confess I want to be a hell raiser/hooligan and have an obnoxiously loud exhaust. Trouble is I don't want to spend money on that and it doesn't really fit my personality.

[shysue2_imp]

I love this thread! I haven't had the CB1100 long enough to have anything to confess about, but I had the previous bikes long enough to have some "incidents." (I've also done the "oops, key still in pocket and I've got take off the gloves to fish it out" trick.)

One bike I grew to hate was the Honda ST1300, because of all the bikes I had I think I had most of my mishaps with that one. On one long trip (rode to Kansas for Hubby's family reunion) we were heading home thru Colorado, stopped at a gas station in Salida and surprisingly ran into someone I knew from a women's riding group I belonged to at that time. She was on her way home from a meet up with the group and lived nowhere near there, so it was really a coincidence. Anyway, she commented on how big the ST1300 was and wondered how I was able to handle it. I told her I hadn't had any problems handling it, it was a great bike, blah, blah. We said our goodbyes, and from the gas station we proceeded on to our hotel for the night. I immediately dropped the bike in the parking lot trying to park that big sucker. Put my foot down and stepped on some gravel, and down we went. It was doubly humiliating because of all the bragging I had just done to the friend, LOL.

The next day, taking Hwy 50 over Monarch Pass, we ran into some ice and both went down. Me on the ST and Russ on his BMW. It was a fairly slow crash but enough to bang up the bikes and bruise our egos. We had to have the bikes towed on a flatbed to the next largish town, Gunnison. The rest of the ride home I was very nervous on that bike, and it wasn't a real forgiving bike to begin with so my nervousness didn't help matters. When we got to my brother's house in Utah I almost dropped it yet again.

When we got home I told Russ, "I want a different bike."

[Lord Popgun]

Gee Sue, I hate reading that. I'm getting an ST1300... I just have to go to Mississippi to pick it up. I read about all the parking lot drops on an ST board and have been worried. This doesn't help I hope I make it ok now.

And I'm keeping my CB1100 for my daily rider.