01-13-2018, 07:24 AM
(01-13-2018, 03:19 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote:(01-12-2018, 04:37 PM)VLJ_imp Wrote: Huh? Why? Until yesterday I didn't even know what those things were, or that they're part of CB lore. They certainly have zero effect on my opinion of the bike, and I doubt that his black '14 Standard has 'em anyway.
It appears that the Honda Mountain of education before you is steep grasshopper. I can see why you don't understand why the CB 1100 was built as it was, and not built as you wish it were.
It appears that the Honda Mountain of education before you is steep grasshopper. I can see why you don't understand why the CB 1100 was built as it was, and not built as you wish it were.
I read all the same things from Honda that you did, regarding the thought process and engineering goals behind the new CB1100. I'm fully up to speed on all that, and mostly okay with it. I don't think it needed to be speed/rpm-limited the way it is, since the old ones weren't, and I think they should have given the bike Showa's best suspension rather than going with cheap imitation cartridge forks; otherwise, I'm happy with their engineering decisions.
I'm simply not aware of All Things Vintage CB, as many of the rest of you here are.
This does beg the question, then, as to why Honda omitted the RLETs from this new CB? Seems like Honda should have included them on the full-retro, wire wheels version, no?
If they had, I would have been fine with it, too. Once I learned the story behind them, yep, no problem, I would have been a-ok with the factory throwing them on there. I wouldn't bother adding them after the fact, but I would have left them on the bike if they were standard equipmment.