Honda CB1300 Super Four photos

[Gone in 60]

Man, what a sweet bike! I don't want to look at the pictures too long, it will just make me sad.
I guess I could just move to Brazil...

[GoldOxide_imp]

Beautiful looking bike...I like the gauges, very clean speedo with only kilometers. I wish U.S. bikes
would just show mph and forget cluttering the display with both mph and km--it seems obvious we're
never going to commit to a kilometers system for U.S. roadways. Personally, I wouldn't mind if we did,
but give me a clean speedo! I must have been in 6th grade, some 45 years ago, when we started
preparing for the great "metric switch" or whatever they called it. Wonder what happened to that? How
did the U.S. as a country begin all that, and then just say, "ehh, no thanks"?

RE metric in the U.S. - The U.S. is a non-trivial and complicated country. Other countries had an easier time making the transition, many doing it in the 1970s.

Haha...the U.S. is a non-trivial country? I don't know what that means, but is it
something we should be proud of? : )

We started in the '70s as well..if my memory serves me right, I would have been in 6th grade in 1975-76. I just think it's curious that in school we were presented with this grand idea that we were going to "catch up" or "align" with the rest of the world with a more effecient system, and then the movement lost momentum somehow and poof! Nada.

Haha...the U.S. is a non-trivial country? I don't know what that means, but is it
something we should be proud of? : )

We started in the '70s as well..if my memory serves me right, I would have been in 6th grade in 1975-76. I just think it's curious that in school we were presented with this grand idea that we were going to "catch up" or "align" with the rest of the world with a more effecient system, and then the movement lost momentum somehow and poof! Nada.
lol - complicated doesn't mean worse. Just a lot of moving parts. Proud? No question, there is a ton to be proud about. But like the uber CB1300, big, powerful, exciting, - it is certainly more complicated than the sibling CB1100.

For comparison: Canada gets complicated when the Quebec cartel decides to turn off the Maple syrup taps.

[Gone in 60]

I believe it was started under Jimmy Carter in 1977 or so. It's really hard to change a system that had been in place for so many years that so many people knew. The rest of the world would have the same problem if they tried to suddenly switch to our system.

Ha! I remember being in school in the '70s. There was a big "Hey, let's all get ready to transition to the metric system!" movement. We learned all about metrics, and I thought "Hey, this is easy, everything is a factor of 10."

Then I watched Bob and Doug comedy routines, and they made the translation easy. "How do you figure metric? Easy - take American, double it, and ad 30."

[Nachodaddy]

Well, now you've gone and done it. This is a huge can of worms. Switching over wasn't as simple as it seemed until you tried to do it. I was in my thirties when "they" decided, without much aforethought, to make the switch to Metric. Americans had kitchens full of measuring tools - spoons, cups, bottles, scales, all in one system. Food came in containers that were manufactured in a certain system. My (at the time) meager supply of tools in my garage were not Metric, but I was not interested in buying all new tools simply to "catch up" to the rest of the world. When I went to college to become a nurse, I had to learn the Apothecary and Imperial Systems and how to convert between all the "systems." There was a market even then, for devices that would easily and accurately convert a measurement from one system to another. Was no one smart enough then to realize we would have to throw out all our cups, measuring spoons, pints, gallons (and thousands of gasoline pumps that would have to be converted) to make this "simple" change. Only a few years ago I lived in England where the fuel stations sell fuel by the liter to drivers who see highway signs indicating miles instead of kilometers. Bottom line is you chose a system of measurement and you live with it. Maybe one seems to make more sense than the other, but, like changing horses in mid-stream, you don't just willy-nilly decide to change the system if it is working. Again - if it ain't broke, don't "fix" it. I will make a strong effort not to go on another rant for at least a month, but I am old, so take that with a grain (gram?) of salt. Oh, and where will we be if England ever decides to drop the pint?

[pdedse]

Arg...can'o worms indeed! I still want an uncluttered speedo like the beautiful CB1300.

[Beto Rocco_imp]

I shared these pictures of my ex-CB1300 because I really liked it, but I would like to say to everyone on this forum who owns a CB1100 that we have an excellent air-cooled motorcycle, just like in the glorious 70's and 80's, but with brakes, stability and power of current times.
Don't sell it because you will miss it so much.

[GoldOxide_imp]

I believe it was started under Jimmy Carter in 1977 or so. It's really hard to change a system that had been in place for so many years that so many people knew. The rest of the world would have the same problem if they tried to suddenly switch to our system.

Ha! I remember being in school in the '70s. There was a big "Hey, let's all get ready to transition to the metric system!" movement. We learned all about metrics, and I thought "Hey, this is easy, everything is a factor of 10."

Then I watched Bob and Doug comedy routines, and they made the translation easy. "How do you figure metric? Easy - take American, double it, and ad 30."

[Nachodaddy]

Arg...can'o worms indeed! I still want an uncluttered speedo like the beautiful CB1300.

Agreed. I still have nightmares about the 55mph speedometer on my '81 GS1100 which would hit 65 before I got across the intersection, front wheel in the air. Never knew how fast I was going.

[Tezza_imp]

Just out of curiosity I had a look here in Australia and found 7 for sale.https://www.bikesales.com.au/bikes/road/honda/cb1300s/

[Cormanus]

Unfortunate calling your business Bike Sales when Google does this to the name in the tab.



I was going to explain how other countries have made the transition from imperial to metric systems but, nah, who cares? Having recently discovered that the Americas (north and south) use coloured nautical channel markers that are reversed compared to the rest of the world, I've decided that you guys are just determinedly different.

That said, I agree entirely with pdedse, if the USA is going to stick with miles as the unit of road measurement, it should ditch the requirement also to show kph on speedometers. The uncluttered look is so much more appealing.