Encounter

[Pauley]

My wife sent me on an errand to the drug store yesterday evening to pick up a prescription. I took my CB. As I was locking my helmet up when I got there, a guy walked up to me in the parking lot saying, in a thick Russian accent, that is a beautiful bike! Is it a 750? What year is it? Did you do the restoration yourself? When I told him it was a 2013, CB1100, modern fuel injection, ABS brakes, etc. he was floored.

He told me that when he was a teenager in Moscow, he would see from time to time some "Party members" riding around on Honda CBs and he would always think to himself someday he would emigrate to America and HE would be riding around on a CB.

I put it up on the center stand and let my new Russian friend sit on it for a few minutes. He looked happier than a pig in s#$t. I told him if he wanted one, all he had to do was see Big Rich at the Hayward, CA dealer.