01-14-2018, 12:38 AM
mickey, yep, now I recall where I've seen those RLETs before: on Schwinn bicycles, just like people here are saying. lol
I'm sitting here looking at the pic you provided of the old CBs. That aqua one is so beautiful, and the red is a stunner. I noticed something about them, though, which prompted me to go look up pictures of your '14 Deluxe, and it became clear to me. Your bike has a lot of black pieces in and around the cockpit. The headlight shell and the instrument cluster are black, so the RLETs tend to go better with them. On the new '17 EX everything black was replaced with chrome, so now the RLETs don't complete the look. They don't match. Rather, they stick out like a sore thumb.
So, okay, on your bike and those old classics, I can see going with the RLETs, but not on the new one, and I still don't understand why Honda didn't see fit to include them as standard on yours, the '13, or the '14 Standard.
I'm sitting here looking at the pic you provided of the old CBs. That aqua one is so beautiful, and the red is a stunner. I noticed something about them, though, which prompted me to go look up pictures of your '14 Deluxe, and it became clear to me. Your bike has a lot of black pieces in and around the cockpit. The headlight shell and the instrument cluster are black, so the RLETs tend to go better with them. On the new '17 EX everything black was replaced with chrome, so now the RLETs don't complete the look. They don't match. Rather, they stick out like a sore thumb.
So, okay, on your bike and those old classics, I can see going with the RLETs, but not on the new one, and I still don't understand why Honda didn't see fit to include them as standard on yours, the '13, or the '14 Standard.