My review of the CB1100 (2018 EX)

[Tev62]

Enjoyed the video. Not much traffic where you live is there? Anyhow, turning 52 next year so the bikes I find most attractive are the mid to late 70's and early 80's stuff when I was a kid. They were the bikes I saw and heard walking to school everyday. The CB as both EX and RS version hits the spot (so do the latest Royal Enfield 650's as it happens). I don't see that many youngsters on motorbikes nowadays, and I mean by that people in their 20's and 30's. I don't think they are that interested TBH. Congestion is a big thing, speed cameras, idiot car and van drivers, pedestrians looking at their phones as they step out on you. I think you have to look for a pleasure in riding, a 'oneness' with your bike and not just focus on speed or absolute dynamic ability. That why I guess the majority of CB owners and forum members 'get' these Honda's.

Thankyou, glad you liked it. Not much traffic due to the lockdown of course but yes, this location was rural. There is a lot to challenge the youngsters getting into motorcycling these days, so I am not surprised it is a waning pastime. I don't see it as their fault though. My 18-year-old would not mind getting into bikes but it is cost prohibitive for him. I left school (and home) at 16 and got an Engineering apprenticeship, when I turned seventeen, I purchased a new Suzuki 250X7, it took half my wages to make the payments, but I could afford the petrol, tax and insurance and still live. Even if my lad, who lives at home, found a piece of junk motorcycle it would cost him €2,500-€4,000 to insure. As a school goer and hopefully University next year he will never have the earning power that I had at his age to afford this. The rampant compo culture, cost to litigate and large pay-outs has priced him out of the market in terms of insurance. I always remember my premiums being “normal” but not so anymore.