02-16-2018, 03:10 PM
(02-16-2018, 09:14 AM)cookiemech_imp Wrote: Whoa! I am not trying to say that the CB1100 EX is the greatest thing since sliced bread, since I haven't ridden every motorcycle. I have never ridden another CB1100, so I don't know how it compares with earlier models. If my only criterion were how it handled potholes, then it probably isn't as good as my (cheap) KLR 650, with its long-travel suspension.
I thought the entire package (of the EX) was well-orchestrated and competent. That's all I meant.
That's okay, 'cause I'm saying exactly that!
As far as I'm concerned, my CB is one and a half points from perfection. The first thing is the front brakes are still squealing a tiny bit, if I slow down just so. It doesn't do it all the time. I have to come to a very slow, gentle, gradual stop, and it does it right at the very end. Harder braking means no squeals. The other thing is only worth a half-point deduction, because I haven't decided yet whether I really consider it a flaw, per se, which is the lack of XSR-style explosive acceleration right off the bottom.
Ridden in isolation, I never want for more when I'm on the CB. Riding her immediately after hopping off the XSR following a serious sport ride, okay, I kind of miss the way the XSR rockets away with any good handful of throttle.
That's it, though, just those two small things. I'm sure the brake squeal will eventually get sorted, and I love the CB's overall power delivery so much that I really don't care that it's not as fast as the XSR. It still satisfies just as much, only in a different way.