03-01-2018, 12:30 PM
W/R, maybe this will make you feel a bit better, maybe it won't. The CB1100 has always made sense in both that it "made sense to me" and that it "made sense for me". I totally understand why Honda made this bike and can easily explain to someone why it works for me. I can understand how all of the different variants appeal to different folks. However, the one that I've struggled with the most is the CB1100 RS. Most of my "CB1100 rants" if you will, primarily have to do with the aesthetics. But the RS goes beyond that for me.
Now for guys who love their CB1100 RS' as much as I love my original CB1100, none of this should matter. People can bag on the original as much as they want and it's okay by me because I know what I like (but please bag on it respectfully, lol). I've had a few suspicions regarding the RS since I first saw it. You can read back through all of the history and planning that went into the CB1100 and understand what this bike is all about. Everything makes sense. When they released the RS, they broke that mold to appease a very small subset of people, but at the detriment of the bike's harmony that they originally worked so hard to achieve. I think that the guys in this video do a good job of confirming what I suspected all along.
Now for guys who love their CB1100 RS' as much as I love my original CB1100, none of this should matter. People can bag on the original as much as they want and it's okay by me because I know what I like (but please bag on it respectfully, lol). I've had a few suspicions regarding the RS since I first saw it. You can read back through all of the history and planning that went into the CB1100 and understand what this bike is all about. Everything makes sense. When they released the RS, they broke that mold to appease a very small subset of people, but at the detriment of the bike's harmony that they originally worked so hard to achieve. I think that the guys in this video do a good job of confirming what I suspected all along.