This bike slows me down

[Guth_imp]

It's strange that whatever car or truck we're driving, maybe the same one for 200K miles, we get in it and drive it, and rarely do we do anything about what we don't like about it - we just get comfortable with it.

But we get on our bike, and the mirror is too short or too big so we change it. Or the handle bars are too low/too high, so we change it. The exhaust doesn't look or sound right, so we change it. Or there's too much wind, or we need to carry stuff, or.....

So we personalize it, and can see and feel the difference immediately, a source of great satisfaction. We like our cars, but we LOVE our bikes!

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And as far as the bike slowing me down, no, it was the opposite.
I slowed down, and the bike accommodated me.

Not me. I've heavily modified just about every car I've ever owned.

Camshafts, ecu tuning, headers, high flow cats and exhaust, ported cyl heads, modified intake manifolds, bored out several throttle bodies, sway bars, mechanical differentials, you name it... even the occasional completely different engine install, made an automatic into a stick shift, converted drum brakes into disc with factory ABS install.

Not me. I've heavily modified just about every car I've ever owned.

Camshafts, ecu tuning, headers, high flow cats and exhaust, ported cyl heads, modified intake manifolds, bored out several throttle bodies, sway bars, mechanical differentials, you name it... even the occasional completely different engine install, made an automatic into a stick shift, converted drum brakes into disc with factory ABS install.
I'm getting the impression that you've rarely been satisfied with pretty much every vehicle you've ever purchased, be it one with two wheels or four. I've got no problem with that and it helps me understand how you have such a hard time accepting the fact that others can be perfectly happy with a motorcycle like the CB1100 just the way it came from the factory even though many are.

You might feel that the changes you made are quantifiable improvements, but to expect everyone to agree with you is totally unrealistic (trust me, nobody is ever going to get a consensus on one seat being superior to another). Furthermore, when it comes to cars and motorcycles for many it is the subjective things that far outweigh the rest. My hunch is that despite your many modifications there are some who own stock CB1100's out there that are even happier with their own motorcycles than you are with yours. The working phrase here is to each their own.