11-04-2020, 06:46 PM
When it gets to where I can no longer ride my CB1100 then I'll get rid of it at some point after that. Knowing me it will likely sit around in my garage for years afterward.
My CB1100 purchase never had anything to do with logic in the first place. I bought it because it was then, and remains today, the most beautiful motorcycle that I'd seen in many decades. The fact that it also happens to be a great all-around motorcycle that well suits my needs was just sort of a bonus. It is highly doubtful that any other motorcycle will come along that would sway me from my CB1100. Certainly nothing has so far in the seven years that I've owned it. This bike really is just about perfect for me. My needs are far more casual than most and the only negative that I can think of that might play a role in things as I age is the weight of the CB. All this has been moot the last few years as I've hardly been riding at all anyway. While I can't guarantee it, I expect that my riding routine will return to form next year. Either way, I'm not going to sweat it and the CB1100 will stay.
While it's been somewhat limited, most of my time out on the road this past year has been spent in the S2000, usually accompanied by my wife (that was never going to happen on the CB1100) and I've been loving it. Unlike the CB1100, in the 3+ years that I've owned the S2000 it has appreciated in value by more than 40%. That's enough to cover the cost of the CB1100 when I bought it new in 2013. At the rate it's going I'm going to be too nervous to drive the thing (I'm much more accustomed to things depreciating in value.) Of course I'd have to sell the S2000 to realize that profit and as with the CB1100 that's not going to happen. Like the CB1100, it will remain in the garage until I can no longer drive the thing.
My guess is that by the time I'm done with them, neither one of my Honda's will be worth all that much in the collectible sense. While it won't happen overnight, I do realize that change is coming and that it's needed. But the enjoyment that I get out of riding and driving both revolves around the internal combustion engine and my interaction with it. Electric vehicles in any form just don't hold much appeal to me. My lack of interest has nothing to do with performance. It's just that if a vehicle doesn't have a clutch then you can cross it off of my list. I'm simply not interested. Again, should something happen to me down the road that won't allow me to operate a clutch then I might change my tune, but more than likely I would just turn to my other interests in life, spending even more time doing those other things that I enjoy.
As it is today though I'm quite happy with my pair of Honda's and have no desire to replace them with anything else. The truth is that they compliment each other very nicely. That's not to say that I wouldn't mind adding to the mix, but even then I'm looking backwards instead of forwards. I'd love to own an early Datsun 240z for example and on the motorcycle front if a 1970 CB350 in the teal blue and white color combo like the one that my dad owned back in the day were to come along at the right price I would surely be tempted. As far as anything new is concerned, I think it would be fun to own some sort of dual-purpose machine. Nothing large like an Africa Twin or the like, but a smaller machine like a CRF450L to just rip around town like a proper hooligan ignoring the vehicle barriers preventing entry to the bicycle streets and such. Yeah, that'd be fun. But the lack of space and money both put a damper on thoughts of additional machines for now. Regardless, the CB1100 isn't going anywhere.
My CB1100 purchase never had anything to do with logic in the first place. I bought it because it was then, and remains today, the most beautiful motorcycle that I'd seen in many decades. The fact that it also happens to be a great all-around motorcycle that well suits my needs was just sort of a bonus. It is highly doubtful that any other motorcycle will come along that would sway me from my CB1100. Certainly nothing has so far in the seven years that I've owned it. This bike really is just about perfect for me. My needs are far more casual than most and the only negative that I can think of that might play a role in things as I age is the weight of the CB. All this has been moot the last few years as I've hardly been riding at all anyway. While I can't guarantee it, I expect that my riding routine will return to form next year. Either way, I'm not going to sweat it and the CB1100 will stay.
While it's been somewhat limited, most of my time out on the road this past year has been spent in the S2000, usually accompanied by my wife (that was never going to happen on the CB1100) and I've been loving it. Unlike the CB1100, in the 3+ years that I've owned the S2000 it has appreciated in value by more than 40%. That's enough to cover the cost of the CB1100 when I bought it new in 2013. At the rate it's going I'm going to be too nervous to drive the thing (I'm much more accustomed to things depreciating in value.) Of course I'd have to sell the S2000 to realize that profit and as with the CB1100 that's not going to happen. Like the CB1100, it will remain in the garage until I can no longer drive the thing.
My guess is that by the time I'm done with them, neither one of my Honda's will be worth all that much in the collectible sense. While it won't happen overnight, I do realize that change is coming and that it's needed. But the enjoyment that I get out of riding and driving both revolves around the internal combustion engine and my interaction with it. Electric vehicles in any form just don't hold much appeal to me. My lack of interest has nothing to do with performance. It's just that if a vehicle doesn't have a clutch then you can cross it off of my list. I'm simply not interested. Again, should something happen to me down the road that won't allow me to operate a clutch then I might change my tune, but more than likely I would just turn to my other interests in life, spending even more time doing those other things that I enjoy.
As it is today though I'm quite happy with my pair of Honda's and have no desire to replace them with anything else. The truth is that they compliment each other very nicely. That's not to say that I wouldn't mind adding to the mix, but even then I'm looking backwards instead of forwards. I'd love to own an early Datsun 240z for example and on the motorcycle front if a 1970 CB350 in the teal blue and white color combo like the one that my dad owned back in the day were to come along at the right price I would surely be tempted. As far as anything new is concerned, I think it would be fun to own some sort of dual-purpose machine. Nothing large like an Africa Twin or the like, but a smaller machine like a CRF450L to just rip around town like a proper hooligan ignoring the vehicle barriers preventing entry to the bicycle streets and such. Yeah, that'd be fun. But the lack of space and money both put a damper on thoughts of additional machines for now. Regardless, the CB1100 isn't going anywhere.