03-01-2014, 10:25 AM
I have actually been following the development of this prototypes since the first modern prototype was shown at the Tokyo show in 2000
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at that time it was a 750 and never made it to production. In 2007 they showed a second prototype, which was very aggressive, then in 2009 a third prototype very close to what was released in 2010 in Japan and Australia. I vowed if it ever came to the US I would have one. In November 2012 the word leaked out that it was coming and I went to my dealer (who BTW had no idea it was coming) and told him the first CB 1100 he got was mine. He said it wasn't coming but I said, remember what I said, the first one is mine. Two weeks later he called and said he got the word from Honda and it would be in around late March or April. In the meantime the magazines started coming out with tests and they were all glowing. I think I have all the magazines it was tested in but MCN. March 29 I picked mine up.
Wonderful motorcycle. I joined this forum the day it was started (member#6 I believe). I put 7035 miles on my 2013 and traded it in on a 2014 Deluxe, which is looking a lot closer to the original 750 prototype. Especially when I put the gaiters on my 2014. Just waiting for it to get here.
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at that time it was a 750 and never made it to production. In 2007 they showed a second prototype, which was very aggressive, then in 2009 a third prototype very close to what was released in 2010 in Japan and Australia. I vowed if it ever came to the US I would have one. In November 2012 the word leaked out that it was coming and I went to my dealer (who BTW had no idea it was coming) and told him the first CB 1100 he got was mine. He said it wasn't coming but I said, remember what I said, the first one is mine. Two weeks later he called and said he got the word from Honda and it would be in around late March or April. In the meantime the magazines started coming out with tests and they were all glowing. I think I have all the magazines it was tested in but MCN. March 29 I picked mine up.
Wonderful motorcycle. I joined this forum the day it was started (member#6 I believe). I put 7035 miles on my 2013 and traded it in on a 2014 Deluxe, which is looking a lot closer to the original 750 prototype. Especially when I put the gaiters on my 2014. Just waiting for it to get here.