Bought "another bike" to keep the CB company

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Woo hoo!

Excellent call on the color and no matte black Heritage Stripe. The Abarth will be fun!

Being the distinguished gentleman that I am, married to the distinguished Mrs. Stichill, we went with an '18 Lusso Red Top Edition in Moda Gray with Ivory leather interior.



Be sure to join us over at [url=https://www.124spider.org]124spider.org. I'm "Magoffin".

Ciaio, baby!

P.S. If anyone's interested, my local dealer - [url=https://www.fiatusaofflorence.com/new-inventory/index.htm?make=FIAT&model=124%20Spider&gvBodyStyle=Convertible]Jake Sweeney Fiat of Florence (Kentucky) - recently bought 10% of the remaining US inventory of 124 Spiders. One week ago, they had 35 cars; as of this posting they have 15.

Great lookin' convertible - like pretty well any vintage Mazda Miata. I would consider one as a CB1100 replacement, if it weren't for the dang problem of bashing my forehead into the top frame of the windshield when being seated.


(yeah, it is a problem)

The ingress / egress procedure:
[li]Open door to widest extent[/li] [li]Turn perpendicular to the car, bum toward seat, and back toward car[/li] [li]Sit[/li] [li]Spin clockwise and draw legs into footwell[/li] [li]Close door
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Too, seat lowering rails are available. Me, being a short stuff, raised the rear of the seat rails 35mm off the floor for a better view.

That ultimately is what I ended up doing, although in the Miata case, I still found my should scraping the upper corner of the front windshield frame. I had to meaningfully squeeze my shoulder blades to finally complete the transition. Sitting in these cars I thought, " ... don't flip it - otherwise there would be carnage for somebody else to clean-up ... ".

At least on the CB1100, I have a chance of jumping off.