Reminiscing

[flynrider]

I started drooling when the CB11 was announced for Japan. My hopes rose in the spring of '10 when a Nighthawk Forum member snapped a pic of the bike up in the hills wearing manufacturer's plates (probably the same bike in the article Guth referenced). At the time I noticed that the red bike/black engine combo was not something that was being offered on Japanese production models, so I had a good feeling that it was a U.S. prototype. It took another long 2 1/2 years before Honda announced we'd be getting it. In all that time, I never really considered getting a different bike. The CB11 was exactly what I wanted.