Quality - Honda vs. Kawa (and others ?)

[Gone in 60]

My '14 CB1100 was stored outdoors during all four Canadian seasons every year. It never missed starting up.


... sun beat down on it five days a week in anonymous corporate parking lots.

I accidentally left my garage door open for a full night. Thankfully she fired right up next morning.

But seriously, the things that do bother me is coming out after a long day to find the birds had their way with my motorcycle. A bit of a drag, but you learn to adapt and anticipate.

I have even posted images here at the Forum in the past of birds that insisted nesting on the instrument cluster day-after-day. I think they liked the heat from the engine block after arriving in the parking lot.

I used to park outside here at work. Nelson Rigg is our next door neighbor, and they always supply me with covers if I ask, and I'd replace them as the old one got a bit faded. We get Egyptian geese every spring who seemed to be interested in my bike I'd frequently find them milling around it, maybe it looked like a bit bird tent to them.

It's been a safe neighborhood around the office for many years, but since I returned to this job about six years ago and bought my CB1100, it's slipped. There are a good number of various weirdos milling around, and a few guys at Nelson Rigg leave motorcycles outside, but since I came back to take over the warehouse, first order of business was making an indoor parking space for myself. It's nice to have indoor parking here, at home, and in a garage at the museum.