07-03-2019, 02:10 AM
I frequently use Tim Hortons coffee shops as my rest stops, as do most bikers in the Ottawa Valley. There are always bikers there that look the bike over. As we are riding on workdays most of us are retired and have spent decades in the saddle. So they are puzzled at first, but seldom fooled that a spotless bike with a sparkling red fuel tank and huge twin discs is a restoration.
It's the silver haired cagers that that get fooled by the spokes and air cooled 4-cylinder motor. I let them reminisce a bit about their Hondas, and then tell them it is a CB1100 that Honda has been making since 2013. Only one person realized what it was from a distance, and he came running over to admire it.
In the 3 years I have been riding mine, I have never seen another CB1100.
It's the silver haired cagers that that get fooled by the spokes and air cooled 4-cylinder motor. I let them reminisce a bit about their Hondas, and then tell them it is a CB1100 that Honda has been making since 2013. Only one person realized what it was from a distance, and he came running over to admire it.
In the 3 years I have been riding mine, I have never seen another CB1100.