Do you think this is for real?

[Cormanus]

Regardless of whether it's sequential or numbered as the bikes arrive in the country, a last-three-digits vin designation of '393' means that a minimum of 393 '17 CB1100s were brought to the U.S. Seeing as how that bike has sat there for a good three or four months, I'm guessing there must be at least 500 '17 CB1100s in the country.

VLJ, I take it that, after a fairly thorough reading of the NHTSA document, that some of the units may be numbered randomly; that is, there is really no sequence required. As long as the identifier is unique and all other of the very complex aspects of creating the VIN are followed, the VIN number is legal.

Read up on how the check digit is created and verified...arrggghhh.

I don't think the last digits of the VIN are any way to really assess how many of any particular model got to any particular market.

I know I've never seen a 2017, and I live in the most populous area for motorcycles in the state. They don't seem to be able to give them away, hardly.

Here is a partial VIN of 2014::
VIN Number: 102229

and here is the link to this bike:
https://www.cycletrader.com/listing/2014...-122423882

Tell me what you think of this VIN...... it is 102229 th CB made by Honda in 2014 or maybe 102229 in the US...or something else??????

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Thanks for that; no way Honda ever imported over 100,000 CB1100s to the United States. The number is actually 102291, there was a typo in the initial post. Those would be HUGE numbers for any model.

Okay, Okay, I guess the jig is up as I simply cannot keep up this facade any longer. I hoped that my strong denials might have dissuaded the persistent few of you who have been messaging me privately with your suspicions. As it turns out, I am in fact a wealthy billionaire — is there any other kind? Sorry, it's an old joke that us billionaire's still get a chuckle out of. (Of course we billionaires get a chuckle out of a lot of things to be honest with you.) Or at least I was a billionaire, until I started stockpiling well over 100,000 CB1100s in warehouses across the country that is.

As a couple of you who wrote me correctly guessed, my plan was to overtake the motorcycling world with my unbelievably large troop of synchronized CB1100 gymkhana riders. That's right, we were going to take the motorcycle gymkhana world by storm. If only gymkhana's appeal would have grown at a faster rate (make that much faster) here in the States I'm confident that my plan would have materialized. By then people would be spending upwards of 20 large to buy a nice low-mileage CB1100 from me. Unfortunately, by the time I managed to have the VIN regulations changed to to purposefully confuse the likes of you folks I had almost no money left. (This should be obvious by the low-budget, no-frills online forum that resides on the screen before you now.) I should have known that in the end my wily plan would ultimately be crushed by intelligent, well-informed CB1100 enthusiasts.

Why oh why couldn't I have opted for the GROM instead, now that would have saved me a lot of money and those crazy little bikes would have really blown away some of those stuffy gymkhana traditionalists. (And what are the odds that those GROM forum guys would have thwarted my hopes and dreams?)
Oh yeah, don't forget to try and keep an eye on the thread drift around here fellas.

Yep. We're watching, boss, and it's drifting happily.

Boom, boom, ching!