12-18-2015, 01:19 AM
To the folks offended by my use of the term "bumblebee", that is what the color scheme has been called for the past 30 years. Didn't mean to offend anyone. The looks of this new Yamaha model are not terrible but there is too much unfinished and angular to get me interested. Just like cars that have been considered classics, the best looking ones look good 25 years after they are made. None of the cars made today get into the future-classic category in my humble opinion. It looks like most were designed by the same little foreign design engineer. You can't tell a Toyota from a Ford. There may be great looking cars out there but the ones I see on the road are mostly all forgetable and cookie cutter. For the past few years, bike designers have decided tehat bikes should look like transformer clones. Overly angular lines and ugle exhausts and seats that slope towards the tank at a 30 degree angle and are 1/2" thick do not make for classics. The CB1100 will still look classy 30 years from now just like the CB750 still looks pretty classy today.