Buying 2014 CB1100 and have questions

[the Ferret]

My opinion? They were designed to be ridden, at any rpm between idle and redline. The design statement produced by Honda said they were designed to just be enjoyable to ride. There are no instructions in the owners manual telling you to rev them, in fact the shift points and speeds suggested in the owners manual would indicate that high revs are not encouraged. I don't think Honda would advise you to run your bike in a manner that would be detrimental to it. The videos produced to intoduce the bikes showed riders lesiurely riding the bikes. I would think that a ride of any length over 10 miles would be sufficient to bring the motor/ head up to temperature. In fact extra oil passages are designed into the head to keep head temperatures from getting too high, as was the addition of an oil cooler. 2500-3500 rpms is certainly not lugging this motor, and 3500 rpms in 6th gear translates to about 65 mph, higher than the speed limit on most secondary roads. The motor will pull cleanly at much lower rpms than that.

Heck my wife's 2022 Mustang cruises 55 mph down the road at about 1250 rpms