03-23-2026, 05:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-23-2026, 05:24 PM by LucienLeFranc.)
Hello!
It’s taken me 7 years to get here.
That’s when I first became love-at-first-sight aware of the CB1100.
But I could only admire--no funds to acquire.
I did at least have my “down-and-dirty dream girl,” my Honda XR650L dual sport to help console me, riding together up in the Pacific Northwest mountain forest dirt trails (and I LOVE LOVE LOVE that XR650L), but nevertheless SHE (CB1100 other woman) haunted my asphalt carving dreams.
Frequenting the XR650L thread on the ADVrider forum was no escape; SHE haunted me there, too. I’d be on the XR650L thread and suddenly a CB1100 notification would appear, and so again--twinge in my heart--I’d go over to the ADVrider CB1100 thread, mostly to lurk, or maybe to ask some question, or to confess my love along with the hope that, one day, maybe, maybe I also...
...rinse and repeat for the past seven years, until “one day” finally came a few weeks ago: suddenly I had the funds to get serious. And so began the search for my road-bike dream girl.
While I searched for HER nationwide, simultaneously I educated myself more deeply about the various years and models by starting at the 2012 beginning of the ADVrider CB1100 thread and reading through nearly 6000 posts to the present.
My search revealed a dozen CB1100s across the US, but the ones I wanted most were on average 2000 miles away, and so my research turned to fly-and-ride, vehicle escrow, bike-transport, and motorcycle consignment companies. I emailed, texted and called sellers and dealers across the US. A few times I got tantalizingly, frustratingly close. But then SHE’d slip away.
Until suddenly, only 100 miles away, there SHE was! My pristine, showroom quality 2014 CB1100 Deluxe with 11k miles.
And. She. Was. Perfect.
And SHE’s in my garage right now!
So now I have the road-bike dream girl of my asphalt carving dreams...
...and questions...
... and so here I am, helmet in hand, knocking hopefully at the CB1100 Forum door (perhaps the best piece of advice given to me again and again by the ADVrider crowd was “have you investigated the CB1100 forum.com and .net?”)
Thank you for having me!
[Note: “LucienLeFrank” is aka “XRLated” on ADVrider, where he’s been posting for a decade, nearly 3000 posts primarily in the ADVrider XR650L thread, about his ongoing love and adventure with his beloved XR650L.]
Cheers to my CB1100 friends--I think you all have excellent taste!
It’s taken me 7 years to get here.
That’s when I first became love-at-first-sight aware of the CB1100.
But I could only admire--no funds to acquire.
I did at least have my “down-and-dirty dream girl,” my Honda XR650L dual sport to help console me, riding together up in the Pacific Northwest mountain forest dirt trails (and I LOVE LOVE LOVE that XR650L), but nevertheless SHE (CB1100 other woman) haunted my asphalt carving dreams.
Frequenting the XR650L thread on the ADVrider forum was no escape; SHE haunted me there, too. I’d be on the XR650L thread and suddenly a CB1100 notification would appear, and so again--twinge in my heart--I’d go over to the ADVrider CB1100 thread, mostly to lurk, or maybe to ask some question, or to confess my love along with the hope that, one day, maybe, maybe I also...
...rinse and repeat for the past seven years, until “one day” finally came a few weeks ago: suddenly I had the funds to get serious. And so began the search for my road-bike dream girl.
While I searched for HER nationwide, simultaneously I educated myself more deeply about the various years and models by starting at the 2012 beginning of the ADVrider CB1100 thread and reading through nearly 6000 posts to the present.
My search revealed a dozen CB1100s across the US, but the ones I wanted most were on average 2000 miles away, and so my research turned to fly-and-ride, vehicle escrow, bike-transport, and motorcycle consignment companies. I emailed, texted and called sellers and dealers across the US. A few times I got tantalizingly, frustratingly close. But then SHE’d slip away.
Until suddenly, only 100 miles away, there SHE was! My pristine, showroom quality 2014 CB1100 Deluxe with 11k miles.
And. She. Was. Perfect.
And SHE’s in my garage right now!
So now I have the road-bike dream girl of my asphalt carving dreams...
...and questions...
... and so here I am, helmet in hand, knocking hopefully at the CB1100 Forum door (perhaps the best piece of advice given to me again and again by the ADVrider crowd was “have you investigated the CB1100 forum.com and .net?”)
Thank you for having me!
[Note: “LucienLeFrank” is aka “XRLated” on ADVrider, where he’s been posting for a decade, nearly 3000 posts primarily in the ADVrider XR650L thread, about his ongoing love and adventure with his beloved XR650L.]
Cheers to my CB1100 friends--I think you all have excellent taste!
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Motoloves of my life:
2014 CB1100 DX
2016 XR650L
