10-05-2018, 03:32 AM
(10-04-2018, 10:50 AM)MM300_imp Wrote: PD, I’m sure your CB is awesome. I putt around with mine on the country roads surrounding my town. 45 - 50mph tops. I don’t ride it anywhere. I don’t push it to it’s limits. It really is perfect for the way I use it. No improvement needed.
Me 19 years ago is another story: Hayabusa, 175 mph on local roads. Riding like an idiot on a bike that was made for it.
Before that, Ninja 900 and prior to that GSXR 750 SRAD. I was that knucklehead busting in and out of traffic at a buck forty, every day.
I can neither be trusted with, nor do I need, super HP and razor edge handling.
I’m sure your bike is awesome and Kudos to you for that. I’ve yet to bump into a deficiency in the CB but if tomorrow comes and I want to start lane splitting and further po'ing my fellow Pennsylvania drivers I’ll get a real sport bike. ‘Cause I’m way too lazy to try to build one.
I agree in as much as it is not possible to make a GSXR into a CB1100 any more than the converse is. Neither will ever be a dirt bike. I mean, if I buy a Harley with the Milwaukee 8 gigantic engine, that puts out 98 horsepower, I cannot then be dissatisfied. I have to know all that first. Power is not what that bike is about.
Thing is, it is cool, that someone has the skill to make mods, and then can go out riding and appreciate them. So, why not ? God knows what I would do to my bikes with time and skill. I strained my milk just putting on the rear rack and saddlebags with supports.