10-25-2021, 12:31 AM
(10-24-2021, 11:35 PM)willsmith_imp Wrote: I've owned a 2014 Honda CB1100 for a week now. I've had a chance to talk to friends and family about it, show it off, ride 100 miles, do some maintenance, and think about ownership.
The phrase that resonates most with me is that:
"This is the motorcycle for someone who has nothing to prove"
Sport bikes and cruisers seem to be as much about what impression they make on others as the riding experience, whereas the UJM has always been about the essence of motorcycling, the elemental, unpretentious machinery and experience. Loud pipes, racy graphics and fairings... make an external impression.
Someone confident in who they are, who doesn't need social affirmation and isn't intimidated by the admonitions.
I've been surprised also by the rush to judgement by so many about the dangers of motorcycling. In this era of polarizing opinions and judgement, so many people assume you'll be dead soon and that they would never be allowed to get a motorcycle by their spouse or take the time to ride it, in deference to their marital or child-rearing responsibilities.
I'm glad to have found like-minded people on this forum... ride on!
We all get that rhetoric, but I always tell people the source of fear is in the future. The motorcyclist at speed exists only in the present moment. A man freed of the future has nothing to fear.
Milan Kundera had it right.