Cruisin' the SR400

[Cormanus]

I have a CB 500x in the garage that belongs to my nephew in Nevada. I promised him I would ride it from time to time to keep it excercised. It's a nice little bike, but with my CB and FJR sitting there I have to force myself to ride the 500. Even though I don't use 50% of the power of the liter bikes, I'd rather use 50% on those than the 100% of the power I have to use on the 500 to do the same thing.

I'm one who absolutely disagrees with the statement about it being more fun to ride a little bike fast than a big bike slow (only guys with little bikes say that). I love my big bikes. With a big bike, you can ride around below speed limit all day if you desire, nice and smooth with no effort, but when you want to feel a giant rush of power a small twist of the grip is all it takes.

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I don't ride 300/500/600cc sport bikes because I cannot fit on them (lol). No rice burning for me. That leaves street bikes and offroad/adventure style bikes. In terms of small engine street bikes, I view them fun for mostly urban use. "Hop "N" Go". They are also great for the odd country jaunts.

The CB1100 does heavy lifting effortlessly. I would not use the CB, say for example, pizza delivery.

Some have had to.



A [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=12353&pid=199842#pid199842]commentator at the time observed: "The CB1100 has many fine attributes but I feel it is a little over capacity and over-torqued for a pizza delivery bike."