Aha moment

[metalmaven_imp]

Ho Lee Chit I love this thread lol!
Thanks for the laugh, and yeah revvin high in 2nd is a BLAST.

[Southwend]

So once again as a veteran of the two big piston bikes I am curious. Even though the big four makes happy torque up and down the tach, Is there a power sweet spot in the RPM range. My first adventure was running through the gears shifting at about 5K which was getting well north of the 65 mph speed limit by the time 6th came around. I think the other day I was in second probably in the 4-5k range when I flogged it and had my little moment. It seems my Thruxton and I ran into the redline limiter often. The four feels a bit slower to spin up but I imagine thats why God made second and then third. Redline is what 8.5? What is that, warp factor three?

[the Ferret]

For me anything between 3500 and 4500 is a happy sweet spot, but I have a feeling you want to hear from somebody a bit more rambunctious

actually if you look at the dyno charts for one of these, they are pretty much a flat line build up of torque and horsepower from 0 on with max torque at 5800 and max horsepower at 7300 rppms

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[furious_blue_imp]

South,

Consider this, the Porsche 911 Turbo is one of the hardest accelerating cars that can be purchased today. It is considered a ferociously fast car and it blows passengers away when they experience it's maximum acceleration. The 0-60 and quarter mile times for that $185,000 Porsche are almost identical to the times for the CB1100. Both go 0-60 in 3.3 seconds and run the quarter in about 11.5 seconds.

The CB1100 is Supercar fast, but it's not Superbike fast. Cheers.

Chip

Apologies if this is a repost.

An interesting drag race, on an airstrip between a Porsche 918, a McLaren P1 and a Ducati 1199 Superleggera.

Amazingly, off the line, it is the Porsche and NOT the bike that leads !
at 110 mph the bike pulls away to the lead..
at 192 mph the Ducati hits its rev limiter and falls behind as a result
above that the McLaren pushes past the Porsche.

fascinating !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfLqa4vlmFI

anyway.. the low-end grunt of a proper big inch four is one of the greatest things about the CB1100.. add to that the killer styling, I love it.

[Offroad]

Thanks Ferret for the chart....I saved it for future reference!

But it does confirm what I feel....more the most part anything past 7000 RPM seems to be a waste and unnecessary for me.

When that torque start to fall off after 6, "when" I'm "hot-rodding" it, I find myself shifting at 7.

[grayta_imp]

Having just come off a Bonneville (but also having owned 650/750cc 4s way back when), I can empathize with Southwend's recent experience. After a few days of puttering around paranoid about break-in miles, I opened the CB up a bit this week (nothing crazy, I'm still aware it's break in time). On the Bonnie, power was mostly in the 3-5k range. The CB seems to love the 4-7+k range. So, I'm relearning old shift points (pulling data outta the ol' biological hard drive from about 1986 or so). And, like Southwend, I had the moment where, when I let the bike wind out, I thought to myself, "oooooh, this is much quicker than the twin."

[BestStandard_imp]

As stated in Honda Worldwide:

"Importantly, however outright horsepower figures on Dynograph paper was not the goal – if the engine proved fun to use, then it would be deemed a success. Smooth, instantly accessible power and torque is what the CB1100's motor's all about, and plenty of it, anywhere in the rev range. No frantic thrashing to the redline; just dial in the throttle, and go. Four-stroke, four-cylinder motive thrust at its creamy, effortless best."

I think most of us agree that they nailed their engine performance goals!!

[metallyguitarded_imp]

I rarely ever go above 5K rpm and tend to stay in the 3K to 4.5K range. Both the bike and I feel at home there. Maybe my granny panties are on too tight.

[emptysea]

Granny panties? you ARE retro!

[rboe]

Now don't get them all in a wad........