Design Disadvantages of the CB1100

[olekzap_imp]

The biggest short coming I experienced in the twisties recently is the range between 1st and 2nd gear.

Dropping to 2nd from 3rd for a curve was no big deal, but dropping to 1st from 2nd for those up hill hair pins was painful.

I guessed about a 2000 rpm drop between 1st and 2nd but only 1000 rpm between 2nd and 3rd.

I hardly ever use 6th gear, I wish they would have taken 6th and inserted it in between 1st and 2nd.

I actually just noticed this the other day. I feel like you can easily short-shift and not bog down between all the gears except for 1-2. Taking off from a stoplight in 1st in traffic and it feels like you have to decide between revving out 1st unnecessarily or shifting into 2nd early and it just not feeling right.