12-26-2016, 02:00 PM
Off the specs? I bet the original CB750 with its four carbs wouldn't even be close to passing modern and coming EPA standards and probably can only with an exemption in some place like CA due to its age; exempt from pollution controls. So if you want the look of a big air cooled four, you just have to pay the price of weight. If you want scalding performance you buy a transformer-appearing water cooled four with great power at 14000 rpm. The CB1100 is a refreshing breath of fresh air, albeit heavy air, in this water-pumper dominated age. We have to love the bike for what it is and not insist on something different. If we insist, we'll be paying the big price for titanium this, carbon fiber that to make a four cylinder Ducati or something out of it. We might just have well started with a nice MV Agusta and be done with it.