NEW 2014: CB 1100, CB 1100 EX

[flynrider]

Part of the problem with moving into a more mature age group is remembering what things used to cost relative to what they are asking for them today. For example I paid $4.50 for a ticket to see the Beatles when they came to Cincinnati in the mid 60's. The other night I paid $80 to see Joe Bonomassa ( guitarist). I paid just under $ 2000 for a new 1977 Kawasaki KZ 1000 which compares favorably with the CB1100 in size, weight, displacement and power for which I paid just under $ 10,000. Approximately 5 times more. I remember paying 25 cents for a gallon of gas and $2.00 for a pair of Levi's. Compared to the bike shouldn't they now be $1.25 a gallon and $10 a pair respectively? Lol

My wife likes to remind me I am not my father, who used to complain about prices ( when he was my current age). Things just cost more these days. Looking at offerings from all the other manufacturers and how they are priced, the CB is actually priced more than competitively, a bargain even. IMO

Wow, I would have loved that deal. Those were the days of runaway inflation. A mere 3 years later I was shopping for my 1st brand new bike and Kawasaki was selling inline-4 KZ750 for $2800 (the KZ1000 was over $3.5K). I ended up settling for the parallel twin KZ750 for $2K.

I didn't buy a brand new bike for another 15 yrs. By then, the CB750 was just under $5K, and that was a no-frills, price point bike. At the time I recall having a bit of sticker shock.

The $10K price tag on the CB1100 didn't surprise me. I buy new bikes so rarely, I've come to expect the price doubling over time. My next new bike (sometime around 2028) will probably go for at least $20K