New Model Year CB1100's??

[JustPassinThru_imp]

I would love to have had a kick starter for the rare day I wanted to relive my youth. I almost always kick started my CB360 and other bikes. When I got the BMW I missed it and it took years to get used to not having it.


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I often kick started my old KZ400 and KZ750. As a broke student, I found that after the battery no longer had the guts for electric starting, you could kick start for another 6 months or so before replacing it.

When the 80s rolled around I was very suspicious of bikes without kick start levers. I imagine Model T buyers of the 1920s felt the same.

I often kick started my old KZ400 and KZ750. As a broke student, I found that after the battery no longer had the guts for electric starting, you could kick start for another 6 months or so before replacing it.

When the 80s rolled around I was very suspicious of bikes without kick start levers. I imagine Model T buyers of the 1920s felt the same.
Ohhh, you got that right. My ownership started with a Yamaha R5C; then an SR 500 on which I caught my road-rash and a ride to a medical campus in a fancy Cadillac with red lights all over it.

Once escaped from that fine institution, I briefly tried to get back in with a Kawasaki H2 Mach IV...scared me to death. Part of that was that I didn't get back on the horse fast enough after being thrown.

I was young and had plans and those didn't include being smeared all over the asphalt. I hanged up my leathers...for 22 years.

Fast forward; and I'm laid off, needing transportation and gas prices are going through the roof. I got me a Virago 250 to relearn on...shocked, SHOCKED! that it didn't have a KICK STARTER. What, I'm going to trust that little battery to run the starter? Whaddaya MEAN, you have something better than a leather jacket as body protection?

Later on, to balance out my garage of the time, along with my R1200GS (this being five years ago) I bought a lightly-used TU250. Half the size of my SR 500...NO. KICK. STARTER. Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot, over!

Well...I got over it. Fact is, I don't know if I have the muscle memory anymore to kick-start a bike...I know I'd look pretty funny at a stoplight, trying to, in a rush...