01-18-2018, 03:36 AM
Nortoon, excellent point. No matter what bike or era, people have always taken whatever they were riding and modified it to suit their tastes. It doesn't matter whether we're talking about an original CB750 or Z1, or a modern, farkled-to-death R1200GS or Gold Wing, motorcyclists have always treated their motorcycles as semi-completed canvasses awaiting one's personal finishing touch.
To expect the modern CB1100 or its owner to be any different is to ignore the basic zeitgeist of motorcycling.
That being said, and to CB750F's point, of course one looking for a thoroughly up-to-date, high-performance motorcycle ought to look elsewhere, as the CB1100 will never scratch that itch, and no degree of farkling will ever change that essential fact. Such a person is simply looking at the wrong bike, and that's on him, not the bike.
To expect the modern CB1100 or its owner to be any different is to ignore the basic zeitgeist of motorcycling.
That being said, and to CB750F's point, of course one looking for a thoroughly up-to-date, high-performance motorcycle ought to look elsewhere, as the CB1100 will never scratch that itch, and no degree of farkling will ever change that essential fact. Such a person is simply looking at the wrong bike, and that's on him, not the bike.