TALK ME OUT OF IT!

[JustPassinThru_imp]

I sympathise JPT. The CB1100 is a wonderful bike and a delight to ride, but it's not much fun in tight spaces and it can be a real pain when there are slippery surfaces and slight inclines involved when you have to park or manoeuvre it. It's about the only think I don't like about the bike—that and the fact that it doesn't yet have a flux capacitor. As I mostly use mine away from built up areas, I can suck it up, but I wouldn't really want it as a commuter.

Tough choice.

That's just it. I HAVE a smaller bike, a TW200. Fine for around-town business. I'm in a small town so going one end to the other is less than five miles. No real need for freeway travel.

The TW is much, much lighter and a JOY to whip through curves and in traffic. It's grossly underpowered, but...you can't have everything.

What I'd like to find, at this point, would be a middleweight which could handle higher speeds...and maybe even some touring. But if I do that, the CB has to go. Space is limited.

Is getting a light-middle weight, losing the TW200 and keeping the CB an option? Or is it that the CB is just such an awkward lump in confined spaces at low speed that makes you think a middleweight may be a better choice?

I've ridden an NC750 with integrated luggage a couple of times and have thought it would be a perfectly acceptable bike. I'd be happy enough to do some touring on it. Don't know if they sell it in the US.

Is getting a light-middle weight, losing the TW200 and keeping the CB an option? Or is it that the CB is just such an awkward lump in confined spaces at low speed that makes you think a middleweight may be a better choice?

I've ridden an NC750 with integrated luggage a couple of times and have thought it would be a perfectly acceptable bike. I'd be happy enough to do some touring on it. Don't know if they sell it in the US.
The TW suits me so very well...the high mileage; its seating position. It's perfect for short around-town hops. Now, we all snicker about The Zombie Apocalypse...but if something bad does happen, it's the perfect sort of bad-times transportation.

I don't know if a middleweight will be a better choice. It may be more a matter of me than of the machine - I know, from experience, the CB is easier to live with than many bigger bikes. There's no real pressure to sell it...just a sad acknowledging a reality.

Not unlike when I sold my R1200GS. I loved it but it was getting to where I dreaded getting on and off it. And when I had an issue with my leg on a trip...would have been bad on any bike; but on that tall, heavy thing, it was really fearful.

That was just outside of Joblin, Missouri...days after that tornado. I missed the storm, but coming through there with a medical issue and that big heavy bike as my only transportation...almost as bad.

I took that as a wake-up call. This may be the SNOOZE alarm going off. I don't know...

...no hurry. Winter is coming. Today I filled the tank, including Sta-Bil; and pulled the battery. Season's over.