04-15-2015, 03:53 AM
I am 34 now and bought my cb in September of 2013.
My best friend has twenty something triumph motorcycles and we would work on them in our free time and at some point I decided maybe I wanted a motorcycle too. I asked him to find me a bike for 500 bucks or less and he came up with a nearly running 1969 cb350. I rode that for a few months and then in the fall tore it apart to restore it over the winter. The next spring came around and I didn't have a restored cb350 and therefor no bike to ride so I went on the hunt for a cheap bike to ride for a little bit while I finished up my restoration. I found an 81 cb750 for 500 bucks. 300 dollars and two days later I had that bike on the road and enjoyed it for a summer.
By now my searching for parts and research on the bikes I had, coupled with my great experiences with them had turned me into a full fledged Honda believer and that's around the time that I saw the cb1100 in a magazine. It was a daily rider that I could just get on and go and at the same time it fit right beside any other bike in my garage. I was absolutely in love. My wife protested about adding another bike but I assured her that this I could use every day (plus my other purchases at that point were only 1300 dollars combined so they didn't really count, right?) she caved and signed off on me buying the 2013.
Other bikes have been added to the garage in that time, hopeful of their day in the sun and that poor cb350 is still waiting for its return to glory, but the cb1100 is just the perfect bike.
My best friend has twenty something triumph motorcycles and we would work on them in our free time and at some point I decided maybe I wanted a motorcycle too. I asked him to find me a bike for 500 bucks or less and he came up with a nearly running 1969 cb350. I rode that for a few months and then in the fall tore it apart to restore it over the winter. The next spring came around and I didn't have a restored cb350 and therefor no bike to ride so I went on the hunt for a cheap bike to ride for a little bit while I finished up my restoration. I found an 81 cb750 for 500 bucks. 300 dollars and two days later I had that bike on the road and enjoyed it for a summer.
By now my searching for parts and research on the bikes I had, coupled with my great experiences with them had turned me into a full fledged Honda believer and that's around the time that I saw the cb1100 in a magazine. It was a daily rider that I could just get on and go and at the same time it fit right beside any other bike in my garage. I was absolutely in love. My wife protested about adding another bike but I assured her that this I could use every day (plus my other purchases at that point were only 1300 dollars combined so they didn't really count, right?) she caved and signed off on me buying the 2013.
Other bikes have been added to the garage in that time, hopeful of their day in the sun and that poor cb350 is still waiting for its return to glory, but the cb1100 is just the perfect bike.