09-19-2020, 01:52 AM
Hello MP. I changed my 2014 forks to 2017 forks, and I am very pleased with the result. I am fairly mechanically inclined, and I do enjoy working on my motorcycles (I own 7), but the older I get it seems the less I enjoy working on them, and the less time I have available to work on them. One can spend hours of testing and going through various adjustments on stock shocks to achieve a satisfactory result (my dirt bikes have way more adjustments than the CB1100). If you limited your changes on the CB to just changing springs, oil viscosity, and oil height, you could be talking a lot of time here. Add a re-valve kit installation, and the potential to have to perform multiple adjustments to the new valving before achieving a satisfactory result, then you're talking some serious time. Throw in the cost of the re-valve parts, springs, fork oil, and your time, is it worth it? It wasn't to me. The fork swap took about one hour, and I was done. The deciding factor for me to buy the 2017 forks was I discovered pitting on one of my fork tubes, and I knew a leaking seal would occur soon, and the tube would have to be replaced. I live in S. Ca, my bike is garage stored, and it has only been drizzled on twice since I bought it new, so there was really no good reason for the pitting. I believe that two other members posted about issues with their fork tubes pitting or the chrome wearing off, and I just didn't want to deal with this (the "time" issue again). Hope this helps.