02-21-2019, 05:17 AM
How I ride is mostly determined by how well I'm doing, financially. My income goes up and down quite a bit, and when it's down I'm forced to limit my rides. During those times, I only use the bikes to commute to work, although I try to take the long way home, through some nice country roads. Days off still only mean shorter rides in the local foothills. When I'm feeling more flush, I tend to do three-to-five-hundred-mile-day rides, and frequent overnight trips up and down the coast. During those rides, I include as many racetrack roads as possible, to make up for all the freeway slogging those longer trips always require.
One irony of my riding time on the CB1100 is that while it is far and away the best low speeds/city bike I have ever ridden, due to its super-friendly powerplant, superb balance, perfect partial-throttle fueling, and easy take-up clutch, I try to avoid city riding on my CB because all that stop-and-go stuff brings out her dreaded brake squeal, which totally spoils the party for me. So, instead, whenever I'm on the CB I look to do rides that won't require much in the way of slow, gradual stops. She's fine with harder braking, so I enjoy her more during sport rides or mickey-style meandering strolls through the countryside that don't require frequent slow-downs for stop signs.
One irony of my riding time on the CB1100 is that while it is far and away the best low speeds/city bike I have ever ridden, due to its super-friendly powerplant, superb balance, perfect partial-throttle fueling, and easy take-up clutch, I try to avoid city riding on my CB because all that stop-and-go stuff brings out her dreaded brake squeal, which totally spoils the party for me. So, instead, whenever I'm on the CB I look to do rides that won't require much in the way of slow, gradual stops. She's fine with harder braking, so I enjoy her more during sport rides or mickey-style meandering strolls through the countryside that don't require frequent slow-downs for stop signs.