04-03-2014, 05:11 AM
Changing bikes is not going to make any difference. Sorry to go against the grain, but if you had a Street Triple and Bonnie, and crashed on the Bonnie, the CB1100 is going to make things worse, not better. The Bonneville is a lot lighter and a lot slower than the CB1100, so stick with that. Your STR is nice and light and maneuverable and that might help you out if can use those qualities.
Many times it is the luck of the draw, but most times it's just a mistake we make. Locking up the rear is a pretty common mistake, and it's a rider skill issue 99 percent of the time.
ABS might help with this and you can get that on the CB1100, but riding the T100 more conservatively and doing a few track days with a good school (not an open track day "free-for-all") is going to put you closer to being a safer, happier rider than simply going to a much heavier bike with ABS.
I don't endorse this website, but http://fastersafer.com/ has some excellent resources and makes a lot of excellent points about rider skill.
Too often folks think they don't need track time and a good instructor and end up exactly in your position.
The rule of thumb is that slow riders need a slow bike with less powerful brakes and a lazier chassis geometry, and demonstrably skilled riders require a fast bike with excellent brakes and sharp handling.
You have the extremes, the Street Triple R being probably the sharpest-handling naked sportbike on the planet, and the T100 being a slow-revving, slow-turning, poorly-braked classic. I owned a Bonnie for a few years and finally got rid of it for those reasons, but I'm a high-performance rider, ex-club-racer, dirt rider, and so on, and it was just slow and didn't handle the way I expect a bike to handle. I have a buddy with an STR, and I followed him down a long, twisting canyon and can very much vouch for those qualities. I was on a bike that would have been much faster on a racetrack but in the real world, the STR was a handful of hard work to keep in sight.
The CB1100, take it all around, is actually more in the high-performance region than most people realize. I can keep that bike in the upper third of the tach all day long, and it's genuinely fast. It has great brakes and very neutral, predictable handling. Those are the only reasons I still have one in my garage. I don't care at all what the bike looks like, that bike has to have the qualities to keep me alive in the real world, and it does.
This has been posted before but here it is again, if you want to see how a CB1100 can be ridden...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2h_7GwTs6g
You've got one foot in each world: slow, underpowered, underbraked standard "classic" and razor-sharp, ultra-responsive naked sport bike. It's rider skill that will make the difference, not switching machines.
Many times it is the luck of the draw, but most times it's just a mistake we make. Locking up the rear is a pretty common mistake, and it's a rider skill issue 99 percent of the time.
ABS might help with this and you can get that on the CB1100, but riding the T100 more conservatively and doing a few track days with a good school (not an open track day "free-for-all") is going to put you closer to being a safer, happier rider than simply going to a much heavier bike with ABS.
I don't endorse this website, but http://fastersafer.com/ has some excellent resources and makes a lot of excellent points about rider skill.
Too often folks think they don't need track time and a good instructor and end up exactly in your position.
The rule of thumb is that slow riders need a slow bike with less powerful brakes and a lazier chassis geometry, and demonstrably skilled riders require a fast bike with excellent brakes and sharp handling.
You have the extremes, the Street Triple R being probably the sharpest-handling naked sportbike on the planet, and the T100 being a slow-revving, slow-turning, poorly-braked classic. I owned a Bonnie for a few years and finally got rid of it for those reasons, but I'm a high-performance rider, ex-club-racer, dirt rider, and so on, and it was just slow and didn't handle the way I expect a bike to handle. I have a buddy with an STR, and I followed him down a long, twisting canyon and can very much vouch for those qualities. I was on a bike that would have been much faster on a racetrack but in the real world, the STR was a handful of hard work to keep in sight.
The CB1100, take it all around, is actually more in the high-performance region than most people realize. I can keep that bike in the upper third of the tach all day long, and it's genuinely fast. It has great brakes and very neutral, predictable handling. Those are the only reasons I still have one in my garage. I don't care at all what the bike looks like, that bike has to have the qualities to keep me alive in the real world, and it does.
This has been posted before but here it is again, if you want to see how a CB1100 can be ridden...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2h_7GwTs6g
You've got one foot in each world: slow, underpowered, underbraked standard "classic" and razor-sharp, ultra-responsive naked sport bike. It's rider skill that will make the difference, not switching machines.