01-09-2018, 09:54 AM
Glad to hear it VLJ. Yeah, that Mickey - he's something alright. He was, of course, one of the main instigators of the addictive conversation that took place over on the ADVrider CB1100 thread that I referred to a number of posts earlier.
Regarding the 2014 Standard. I certainly feel that it retains the somewhat leaner, slightly more athletic look of the 2013 that shipped in the red/black/silver combo. But it does so in a much different way obviously. I sometimes wonder if overall, the 2014 Standard appeals more to the youngest* group of CB1100 fans, while the classy 2014 DLX (visually mimicking more of the older CB designs) tends to attract a higer percentage of the oldest* group of CB1100 fans and the 2013 rests somewhere in the middle. I haven't quite determined where I would guess that the 2017 fits with respect to all of this. Not that any of this matters. I'm sure the we could come up with numbers to both support and discredit my "theory". But to the point that I was originally trying to make at the beginning of this thread, they are all special in their own way. The longer that Honda produces this motorcycle, the more special it becomes as other bikes that also remain air-cooled options in this class will likely fall prey to the convenience water-cooling brings to the designers and engineers (amongst a few other key differences that set the CB1100 apart from other bikes today).
* "youngest" and "oldest" both being highly relevant in this case as very few of us around here are spring chickens. I'm thinking about this more in terms of how long ago it's been since we each "came of age as motorcyclists" to borrow a phrase from you.
That was really awesome of egleaves to offer up his CB1100 for a test ride. I'm sure I'm not the only one who looks forward to learning of your impression of the bike. Perhaps not so much due to whether or not it ultimately either satisfies or dissatisfies you, but rather how well it matches up to the vision that you currently have of it based on what so many others here and elsewhere on the web have shared with you.
Regarding the 2014 Standard. I certainly feel that it retains the somewhat leaner, slightly more athletic look of the 2013 that shipped in the red/black/silver combo. But it does so in a much different way obviously. I sometimes wonder if overall, the 2014 Standard appeals more to the youngest* group of CB1100 fans, while the classy 2014 DLX (visually mimicking more of the older CB designs) tends to attract a higer percentage of the oldest* group of CB1100 fans and the 2013 rests somewhere in the middle. I haven't quite determined where I would guess that the 2017 fits with respect to all of this. Not that any of this matters. I'm sure the we could come up with numbers to both support and discredit my "theory". But to the point that I was originally trying to make at the beginning of this thread, they are all special in their own way. The longer that Honda produces this motorcycle, the more special it becomes as other bikes that also remain air-cooled options in this class will likely fall prey to the convenience water-cooling brings to the designers and engineers (amongst a few other key differences that set the CB1100 apart from other bikes today).
* "youngest" and "oldest" both being highly relevant in this case as very few of us around here are spring chickens. I'm thinking about this more in terms of how long ago it's been since we each "came of age as motorcyclists" to borrow a phrase from you.
That was really awesome of egleaves to offer up his CB1100 for a test ride. I'm sure I'm not the only one who looks forward to learning of your impression of the bike. Perhaps not so much due to whether or not it ultimately either satisfies or dissatisfies you, but rather how well it matches up to the vision that you currently have of it based on what so many others here and elsewhere on the web have shared with you.