What's an RLET?

[Lord Popgun]

What's an RLET? "Really Long Explanation Topic"

For those of us who have 'em, we never go out in public with the balls on the end of our levers uncovered.... LOL
fritz

http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2491

48 page thread on RLETS. 48 PAGES!!

[the Ferret]

Surely we can get it to 50 pages lol

[Riko_imp]

I'm not waiting for a pseudo philosophical answers à la:

Scout... It would be easier for potential CB1100 riders to become educated about RLETs if this thread were made "sticky". However, there is something about the journey, the search for an answer, the intellectual curiosity satisfied, that takes a person from being merely a motorcyclist to being a CB1100 Rider. Be it clear, though, that RLETs themselves need not be installed on one's bike in order to achieve symbiosis with this fine machine, but knowledge of their existence, history, and speculated purpose is of paramount importance in the process.

Short-cutting the spiritual journey of using the search function and reading post after post about these small, but important, accessories would deprive potential owners and owners-not-yet-informed of the opportunity for CB1100 Nirvana.

I vote "no" to making RLET threads "sticky".

So, I'm merely searching for an objective maybe scientific answer to the question, what was the original purpose of those rlets on honda bikes of yesteryear?

Now I'm curious

[Elipten_imp]

It is answered if you read the entire set of posts.


2014 CB1100 DLX
2013 CB1100 Std
1990 BMW K75 RT

[the Ferret]

Good luck on finding that answer. I searched for years for the answer to that question. There has been a persistent rumor that a Japanese engineer early on scratched his car with the end of a lever while backing his bike out of the garage and they have had them ever since. The other thing I have heard was in the early days a lot of people dropped their bikes scratching the end of their levers. You could cover it up with a 25 cent rubber cover rather than replacing a $3 lever. All I can tell you for sure is I bought my first Honda in 1967 and it had them, and every CB Honda I owned or saw up until about the late 80s had them. I planned on getting rlets in 2012 in anticipation of the US getting the CB 1100 and they went on my 2013, the first the dealer received before I even took delivery of it.

[Riko_imp]

living cb encyclopedia

[Cormanus]

Riko, you've been lurking long. Having acquired a CB, you've achieved a rate of farkle fast becoming the envy of other forum members. It is to be assumed you have read much. All this is good, but not sufficient: you must return to the start of this thread (see [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5505]here) read and re-read. Then you must go [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2491]here and read and re-read what Brother EmptySea has rightly called The RLET Manifesto.

This is not science, Riko, this is metaphysics. By solving the risk posed by juvenile CBs levers to the side of Mrs Honda's car, Soichiro Honda brilliantly created a new, sublime state. Was it design? Was it accident? Will this thread make it to 50 pages? Who knows the answer to the first two of those questions; we need your help on the second. Let your watchwords be 'Read and post'. Read and post. Enlightenment approaches.

[Riko_imp]

indeed read alot about it I have, reading all 8 pages here I've done, to finish the 52 page topic I have not,

my training on this matter is yet to be completed

[Cormanus]

That's the spirit, Riko. A Jedi you will be.

[Cormanus]

This nonsense was posted in another thread.

A knob dipped in Plasti-dip does not an RLET make. If you doubt it, re-read this thread.