05-19-2014, 07:59 AM
56 here, and just about the same story as most of the above!
Got my motorcycle license at 15 (you used to be able to do that here in CA). I lusted after that first CB750 - just loved that sound! - but, being only 12, ownership wasn't quite in the cards. During the next few years, school and college kept me in a string of used bikes, and I caught the cafe racer bug for a while, followed by a couple of decades of sportbikes, which all conspired to keep the CB out of my garage. In 2012 I bought the (mag-wheeled) Triumph Bonneville, which was such a refreshing, comfortable, low-key, fun bike to ride, and it took me back to the beloved "standards"/UJMs of my youth. A couple of months later I heard the first news of the CB1100 and couldn't believe it. The looks of the old and slightly newer CBs, combined with a whole dollop of CBX, all in a modern, dependable package were just too much for me. It took me a while to justify it, but I ultimately sold my Ducati and FZ1 and made room for the new CB about a month or so ago.
Very happy with the decision, and the farkling is already in full swing!
Got my motorcycle license at 15 (you used to be able to do that here in CA). I lusted after that first CB750 - just loved that sound! - but, being only 12, ownership wasn't quite in the cards. During the next few years, school and college kept me in a string of used bikes, and I caught the cafe racer bug for a while, followed by a couple of decades of sportbikes, which all conspired to keep the CB out of my garage. In 2012 I bought the (mag-wheeled) Triumph Bonneville, which was such a refreshing, comfortable, low-key, fun bike to ride, and it took me back to the beloved "standards"/UJMs of my youth. A couple of months later I heard the first news of the CB1100 and couldn't believe it. The looks of the old and slightly newer CBs, combined with a whole dollop of CBX, all in a modern, dependable package were just too much for me. It took me a while to justify it, but I ultimately sold my Ducati and FZ1 and made room for the new CB about a month or so ago.
Very happy with the decision, and the farkling is already in full swing!