CB1100 Fourm - Chicagoland Chapter: Meeting Miniutes

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The first, as far as I know, meeting of CB1100 owners from Chicagoland was held Saturday, August 9, 2014 at Apple Villa Restaurant in Hoffman Estates, IL.

Attendees: Tim (Short Timer), Todd (Todd_K), and Matt (yours truly)

Discussion topics included: General agreement that corned beef hash is better if crispy, although there seemed to be mild differences on the degree of crispness. Also, suitable admiration was poured onto Todd for being able to carve out time to ride at all with two little ones at home and one on the way. We then set out to make sure our bodies were properly fueled with eggs, various pork products, and coffee--Sorry, Mickey, the Chicagoland Chapter feels that tea is too refined for CB riders and may be better suited for the highfalutin Gold Wing set. (It's also entirely possible that we never discussed tea or Gold Wings)

L to R: Matt, Todd, Tim, Goofy waiter with too much time on his hands.


Formal meeting adjourned and we headed out for a short tour of the northwest and west suburbs of one of the truly great cities in the world.

A pretty good selection of CB versions were present: Todd's 2014 Std in black, Tim's DLX, and my 2013 Non-ABS


I thought about killing Todd for his cool Vanson jacket, but he's got kids at home and besides it's probably two sizes too small and then there'd be blood and stuff, so...


I lead the short leg of our trip which would take us west through a very affluent area on a very pretty road so we could see how the other 1% lives. Unfortunately, my camera malfunctioned and I was only able to get a few pics from this section...








Todd would lead the rest our ride together, which would take us south on Hwy31 in the general homeward direction for Tim and Todd. I would have to "suffer" the "inconvenience" of riding a longer return trip alone....oh, the sacrifice of having to spend more time on my bike

One last passing thought of stealing that jacket...

Todd looking stealthy


Tim looking...ummm distinctly UN-stealthy


31 is not a particularly inspiring road, but it runs roughly along the Fox River through the City of Elgin which was pretty in its own (Todd's description) "post-industrial river town" kind of way. After Elgin, though, 31 opens up nicely and Todd took us off of it onto some very scenic roads, moving us from urban, to suburban, to rural areas in the space of an hour or so; something fairly hard to do in our area in such a short time span.









Our ride ended quicker than I think any of us wanted it to, but we had a wonderful morning and agreed that another meeting/ride should happen soon with less time on the meeting part and lots more time on the ride part.

"Good Byes" and "Safe Rides" were exchanged and another great ride was logged