Here's what's in my garage for 2018

[Ulvetanna_imp]

Let me clarify my position. I've been riding motorcycles and motorbikes since 1960. My first bike (that I owned)was a 1963 BSA Spitfire Scrambler. I didn't know any better, so I rode this bike from Charleston, West Virginia almost to Brownsville Texas and back home in August, 1966. But remember, I was 23, not 75 at the time.

Let me clarify: I am not a track day rider. I am not a canyon racer.

All I expect of a 500 pound bike that looks like it was designed to be a daily rider, a do it all machine ...... is to be just that.

With front suspension that doesn't destroy wrists, and rear suspension that doesn't catapult the rider off the seat.

I have logged over 500,000 miles on motorcycles.

In my wildest dreams, I never expected the CB1100 to be a harsh riding machine. I guess I was beguiled by the standard appearance of the bike. And I thought Honda would market this bike as a standard that took on standard tasks, including roads that weren't A++ in smoothness.

They didn't, and I'm disappointed.

That's it for me.

Bob

First off, I THANK you for clarifying your experience. Makes it a lot easier to see where you are coming from here an avoid assumptions about how perhaps I somehow know more about riding than you do. Unlikely.

At any rate, Bob, welcome to the club. That's exactly why I traded my 2013 Standard for something else a little over a year ago. And I replaced the shocks, handlebars, and changed to a thicker fork oil. For the sporting rider or someone who rides the bike a little harder than status quo, it does not quite meet the needs in the first iteration.

I speculate the second generation is going to be excellent.

Did you not read my much-loved, greatly-appreciated [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10017]"Sayonara to the CB1100, with an Exit Interview?" Those same concerns, along with regrets, were poignantly noted; with the stoicism of a Spartan, the philosophical insight of a Plato, and even-tempered acceptance of a Confucius, I finally had to let it go.



I am now eyeing a 2017 EX very critically; but, with a sense of pure objectivity, aloof and keenly analytical, like a German philosopher, I will eventually make the right decision.

"Okay, enough of that BS..."

-Bill Paxton's character in Titanic after spouting a lot of pseudo-romantic nonsense.