12-31-2017, 03:03 PM
Hey VLJ, hopefully by now you've figured out that ownership of a CB1100 is not required for long term participation here on this forum, lol. I do get why the ferret and others feel that the CB1100 might not work to your satisfaction. I would tend to agree. I do hope that you get a test ride of one to find out for yourself some day soon. However, even you were to find that the bike does not the check off all of the necessary boxes for you, I don't think that would prevent you from appreciating the CB1100 for what it is.
It seems like you already have a pretty good idea of what this bike is all about. I would imagine that it would be easy to romanticize about the CB1100, but possibly harder to live with for someone who actually makes the most of the performance allotted to us by todays sports bikes. While it's a far better bike than the CBs of decades past, it's also very similar in many ways. To me, that is the true beauty of the CB1100. Honda has provided us with a bit of a two-wheeled time machine, for better or worse. Most of us who end up with the bike long-term feel that's for the better obviously. But it's certainly not for everyone, and that's really okay.
It seems like you already have a pretty good idea of what this bike is all about. I would imagine that it would be easy to romanticize about the CB1100, but possibly harder to live with for someone who actually makes the most of the performance allotted to us by todays sports bikes. While it's a far better bike than the CBs of decades past, it's also very similar in many ways. To me, that is the true beauty of the CB1100. Honda has provided us with a bit of a two-wheeled time machine, for better or worse. Most of us who end up with the bike long-term feel that's for the better obviously. But it's certainly not for everyone, and that's really okay.