09-04-2014, 04:39 PM
The thing that struck me about the review was the tone of disappointment that the CB1100 wasn't more powerful. It was almost as if they wanted to give it the big tick but couldn't bring themselves to do it because the only thing that mattered was how much power it could generate.
There's an attitude in this article that can be summed up something like, "I really like the look and feel of the CB1100 but I'm really annoyed that it doesn't meet my requirement for power. But it's the bike I want and I'm going to grizzle about it not being made just for me."
It's part of the human condition to believe that we all know better than the original designers of almost anything. It's the only rational explanation for the roaring success of the farkling business. While it's clear that the blokes who wrote this review clearly haven't read the Honda writeup of its intentions for the bike and have limited comprehension of the notion that people may well buy bikes for different reasons, they glow with confidence that would have done it better if only they'd had the imagination and the opportunity to do it in the first place.
My late mother was a mine of pithy little sayings for every occasion. One of her favourites was "comparisons are odious". She'd have been on the money here.
There's an attitude in this article that can be summed up something like, "I really like the look and feel of the CB1100 but I'm really annoyed that it doesn't meet my requirement for power. But it's the bike I want and I'm going to grizzle about it not being made just for me."
It's part of the human condition to believe that we all know better than the original designers of almost anything. It's the only rational explanation for the roaring success of the farkling business. While it's clear that the blokes who wrote this review clearly haven't read the Honda writeup of its intentions for the bike and have limited comprehension of the notion that people may well buy bikes for different reasons, they glow with confidence that would have done it better if only they'd had the imagination and the opportunity to do it in the first place.
My late mother was a mine of pithy little sayings for every occasion. One of her favourites was "comparisons are odious". She'd have been on the money here.