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(05-08-2014, 11:07 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Trouble is Spaceman and Deanohh..I own and ride multiple bikes ..sometimes 2 in a day some times all 3 in 2 days. Only this one has this particular switch layout. The rest are typical Japanese layout of turn signal in the middle, horn at the bottom.
Much of what we do on a motorcycle we have to do instinctually literally for our survival. They made all bikes shift on the left because it was confusing and dangerous for riders with some on the left and some on the right. I've had both at the same time and there's nothing like needing brakes, stomping on the pedal and finding out you just downshifted a gear.
No, I need them all alike so if it can be done, I will do it.
And I believe the emergency kill switch is always throttle side on top.
High beam always left side on top.
Sounds like you thought I was serious. And now a complaint about the n light in an inconvenient place. Some guys would complain about getting hanged with a golden rope. Your lucky your other bikes dont have the brake left and shifter right.
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Oh you weren't serious? Nuts, sometimes I'm so bad at this. 8 for 24 this month. Lol
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To top all this off, I have two British vintage bikes that I ride a lot and they have the shifter on the right side. More than once I've stomped the shifter for the brake 
But it doesn't take too long before my mind switches over and I don't have any problem. I expect that in time that may be the case with the CB.
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(05-08-2014, 08:26 PM)Rocky_imp Wrote: To top all this off, I have two British vintage bikes that I ride a lot and they have the shifter on the right side. More than once I've stomped the shifter for the brake
But it doesn't take too long before my mind switches over and I don't have any problem. I expect that in time that may be the case with the CB.
I share this challenge, and it becomes especially troubling when I ride a left and a right shift bike on the same day. My Moto Morini 175 has experienced some pain due to this.
But the point that Ferret makes about looking down at the switch and taking your eyes off the road is very real. It's a reflexive thing and I think Honda has really gotten it wrong with the new switch, which seems to be spreading across their model line.
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(05-07-2014, 10:43 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: (05-07-2014, 04:18 PM)Flynrider_imp Wrote: I get your frustration, Ferret. One of the things that was a pleasant surprise about the CB1100 was that it had the same control pods as my 20 yr. old CB750. I switch back and forth between the two daily and don't even have to think about it. I think if I had a '14, I switch out those pods in a heartbeat.
Yea, if you own multiple bikes it really stinks.. Sunday I rode the ST, Monday I rode both the Majesty and the CB, Tuesday I rode the CB, Wednesday I rode the Majesty, today is Thursday I am riding the CB up to Jeffersonville to meet a buddy for lunch (only motorcyclists would think nothing of driving 100 miles each way for cheeseburger lol ). It's driving me nuts hitting horns when I want to change lanes or turn, hitting the cancel t/s button when I want to beep a warning. And now, because they are not the same, it's happening on all 3 bikes. Don't know whose brilliant idea this was but it wasn't so brilliant if you ask me.
Fear not ferret for help is on it's way. I have deployed a rather large and empty van to your residence 'Chez Ferret' (which I found through your I.P address ).
I will relieve you of your surplus motorbikes and hey presto: no more confusing switchgear to worry about!
See, I'm all heart 
(05-08-2014, 10:10 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: (05-08-2014, 09:57 AM)Flynrider_imp Wrote: (05-07-2014, 10:43 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: (05-07-2014, 04:18 PM)Flynrider_imp Wrote: I get your frustration, Ferret. One of the things that was a pleasant surprise about the CB1100 was that it had the same control pods as my 20 yr. old CB750. I switch back and forth between the two daily and don't even have to think about it. I think if I had a '14, I switch out those pods in a heartbeat.
Yea, if you own multiple bikes it really stinks.. Sunday I rode the ST, Monday I rode both the Majesty and the CB, Tuesday I rode the CB, Wednesday I rode the Majesty, today is Thursday I am riding the CB up to Jeffersonville to meet a buddy for lunch (only motorcyclists would think nothing of driving 100 miles each way for cheeseburger lol ). It's driving me nuts hitting horns when I want to change lanes or turn, hitting the cancel t/s button when I want to beep a warning. And now, because they are not the same, it's happening on all 3 bikes. Don't know whose brilliant idea this was but it wasn't so brilliant if you ask me.
Not just motorcyclists. We flyers have a ritual callled the Hundred Dollar Hamburger. Fly to a distant airport, have lunch, fly home. Although with fuel prices these days it's more like a $200 hamburger. 
Not just motorcyclists. We flyers have a ritual callled the Hundred Dollar Hamburger. Fly to a distant airport, have lunch, fly home. Although with fuel prices these days it's more like a $200 hamburger.
Not just motorcyclists. We flyers have a ritual callled the Hundred Dollar Hamburger. Fly to a distant airport, have lunch, fly home. Although with fuel prices these days it's more like a $200 hamburger.
Go to some of the more touristy areas of London and you pay at least that, walking in off the street!
Same goes for concerts, trains, budget airlines, sporting events... Anywhere you don't have other choices.
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I dont know but I dont think I would like the switches on the 14 either. I am such a creature of habit and hard to change. I am curious if the other new Hondas have this same setup or is it CB1100 specific? And who was the genius that decided to set the switches up this way and why????
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when I looked around my local dealers the other day it seemed a lot of the new models favored this arrangement. someday...this will be the new norm apparently. at least with Hondas
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(05-09-2014, 01:21 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: when I looked around my local dealers the other day it seemed a lot of the new models favored this arrangement. someday...this will be the new norm apparently. at least with Hondas
If so we'll all get used to it after a while. My '73 BMW had IMO, the best switch layout ever designed for a bike, intuitive and natural layout that used but two push button-lever switches. All the magazine testers of the day hated it and soon after BMW yielded and changed to a more conventional design.
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Does that Hundred Dollar cheeseburger come with the HD Logo on it? I hear all their parts and accessories are priced in increments of HD (hundred dollars)
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(05-09-2014, 04:30 AM)dBuster_imp Wrote: Does that Hundred Dollar cheeseburger come with the HD Logo on it? I hear all their parts and accessories are priced in increments of HD (hundred dollars)
LOL
Get a B.O.A.T. break out another thousand
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