03-18-2020, 07:30 AM
(03-18-2020, 06:15 AM)Bheezy27403_imp Wrote:(03-18-2020, 06:05 AM)furious_blue_imp Wrote:(03-18-2020, 05:54 AM)m in sc_imp Wrote: they certainly intended to sell more new than they did , hence why there were all the holdovers 3,4,5 years later. Its just the way it is.
You've got a point there.
I wonder if they would have sold better or worse if they'd attempted to shape and paint the tanks like the original 69-70's 750s, the way that Kawasaki has put on a rounded tank and painted the last 2 years of the Z900RS to resemble the earlier Z1s. Of course 'retro' wasn't as much of thing back when the CB1100 first came out..
You've got a point there.
I wonder if they would have sold better or worse if they'd attempted to shape and paint the tanks like the original 69-70's 750s, the way that Kawasaki has put on a rounded tank and painted the last 2 years of the Z900RS to resemble the earlier Z1s. Of course 'retro' wasn't as much of thing back when the CB1100 first came out..
"Retro" has been a thing since the 2001 Bonneville came out.
You've got a point there.
I wonder if they would have sold better or worse if they'd attempted to shape and paint the tanks like the original 69-70's 750s, the way that Kawasaki has put on a rounded tank and painted the last 2 years of the Z900RS to resemble the earlier Z1s. Of course 'retro' wasn't as much of thing back when the CB1100 first came out..
"Retro" has been a thing since the 2001 Bonneville came out.
The Bonneville certainly came along way back when, but it was not riding a wave of retro like there has been in the last few years. If the CB were new now, I'd speculate that Honda might've taken a chance to make it resemble 70's CB750 as the current Z900RS tries to resemble a Z1 and the current Suzuki Katana 'tries' to resemble the old Guth design Katana.. We'll never know..