01-09-2018, 05:36 PM
I still remember walking into a Honda showroom in late 2010 and seeing a white CB1100 and saying to the sales person, ‘I want one of those’. ‘Take it for a test ride, mate,’ he said. I didn’t for various reasons, but I should have. It took me 3 years to get one.
It was the look that did it for me. It was the bike I’d wanted back in the day when a 4-cylinder bike was all the one to have.
pdedse, far from being pedantic, I found your markedness theory really helpful in understanding why some things appeal and others don’t. It is, I suppose, a form of bias, but it seems to me to provide an understanding of,why we are biased.
VLJ, I too will look forward to hearing how you find the CB1100. Like Guth, I remain unconvinced that it is the bike for you. When you enjoy really pushing a bike through the corners, why would you have one that can’t do it? I understand the urge to slow down, but I’m not sure I understand the desire to give up riding machines designed and tuned to do the things you say you really enjoy.
I’ve been wrong before.
It was the look that did it for me. It was the bike I’d wanted back in the day when a 4-cylinder bike was all the one to have.
pdedse, far from being pedantic, I found your markedness theory really helpful in understanding why some things appeal and others don’t. It is, I suppose, a form of bias, but it seems to me to provide an understanding of,why we are biased.
VLJ, I too will look forward to hearing how you find the CB1100. Like Guth, I remain unconvinced that it is the bike for you. When you enjoy really pushing a bike through the corners, why would you have one that can’t do it? I understand the urge to slow down, but I’m not sure I understand the desire to give up riding machines designed and tuned to do the things you say you really enjoy.
I’ve been wrong before.