05-11-2020, 10:17 AM
I joined in 2015 as I was researching options in 4-cylinder touring motorcycles, after making a few long-distance excursions on CBF600SA. That was at the time the lightest 4-cyl bike sold by any make in Canada. Was looking for something similar with just a bit more power and stabilty in heavy traffic on straghts, yet pleasure on twisties. It took two years to actually get my CB1100.
Just a year ago I was rear-ended while stopped at the light on that cbf600sa mentioned above. (My fault really, as I try not to ruffle the feathers of the natives around me by urban lane-splitting and pulling to the front of the line on red.
The bike was totaled, I had a scratched knee and a bit of a pain in my shoulder, pulled by trying to keep the bike already at 45degrees from dropping flat. (Don't do it at home kids. Let the bike drop, it is only cheap plactic and metal, your bones and joints are worth more!) After an incredible hasle with the guilty party's liability insurer (TD Insurance - fellow Canadian riders, stay away from them!) I am now looking for a replacement, some lighter, around-the-town-and-up-and-down-the-ravine bike, and am, amog other, considering an RE Himalayan.
Half a year or so I ride on the other side of the Pond on whatever an old friend or two will loan me for a day or a week. Right now am waiting for flights across to reopen after the epidemic.
P.S. we need an 80+ age slot above the current top one. When I get there (in couple of years), I expect free life-time membership of this forum!
Rotor
Just a year ago I was rear-ended while stopped at the light on that cbf600sa mentioned above. (My fault really, as I try not to ruffle the feathers of the natives around me by urban lane-splitting and pulling to the front of the line on red.
The bike was totaled, I had a scratched knee and a bit of a pain in my shoulder, pulled by trying to keep the bike already at 45degrees from dropping flat. (Don't do it at home kids. Let the bike drop, it is only cheap plactic and metal, your bones and joints are worth more!) After an incredible hasle with the guilty party's liability insurer (TD Insurance - fellow Canadian riders, stay away from them!) I am now looking for a replacement, some lighter, around-the-town-and-up-and-down-the-ravine bike, and am, amog other, considering an RE Himalayan. Half a year or so I ride on the other side of the Pond on whatever an old friend or two will loan me for a day or a week. Right now am waiting for flights across to reopen after the epidemic.
P.S. we need an 80+ age slot above the current top one. When I get there (in couple of years), I expect free life-time membership of this forum!
Rotor