New Model Year CB1100's??

[rboe]

Funny you should mention the 650L, it has not changed in years and some model years are simply skipped (I don't think there was a 2014 model) so there is the possibility (unlikely) that there won't be a 2015 model but it will come back in 2016 after inventories have been cleared out.

[nhawk7504_imp]

"Yamaha has a nice SR400"

My brother keeps telling me that it should have electric start. Still one at my local dealer who has sold out of last year's FZ07 and FZ09.

[tailgunner_imp]

Spoke to Honda seems there's 13 &14 still at the dealer so probably will wait and release 2016 model so here's my question cb1100 or deluxe

[the Ferret]

Depends on what you want in a motorcycle.. Which speaks to you? 2013 red 5 speed, 2014 black 6 speed, or 2014 red 6 speed. All have same motor. Just dressed a little differently.

[ride4now_imp]

I went to the Honda exhibit yesterday in Daytona at Bike Week and spoke to one of the Honda guys there. I don't know if he actually works for Honda or one of the local dealers, but he said they are going to release a 2015 version which will essentially be the same as the 2014 with just some color changes. The DLX they had on display was a 2014 built in March of 2014. I didn't check the black standards date. I asked him why they didn't introduce a 2015 here in Daytona...he didn't know but said that the CB's sold well so a 2015 is coming. I hope he's right.
My DLX is a keeper, but it would still be nice to see what they would do with a new one. Perhaps nothing other than a color change. My 2009 KLR is identical to the 2015...except for color and price. And they've sold boatloads of this same bike over the years...

[JustPassinThru_imp]

With literally hundreds of new 2013's and 2014's sitting in crates across the country, it's not looking good for a 2015 (but I hope I am wrong!) Although this is great for consumers as I have seen the 2013's at $6999 and the 2014 Deluxe versions selling at $9999.

Wish I had the bucks to put a couple of crates away in storage. Be fun to place a "new in crate" CB1100 on the market, in about 20 years!

Wish I had the bucks to put a couple of crates away in storage. Be fun to place a "new in crate" CB1100 on the market, in about 20 years!
It would be a loser for whoever did it.

I go back thirty years...to my first new bike. Anyone know of megadealer Rick Case? Car dealerships all across the nation. Got his start forty years ago as a motorcycle dealer in Cleveland.

In the mid-1980s he decided he'd rather sell cars than bikes. He had a multiline cycle dealership; that's how he got in with Honda when they were setting up their car dealership network...and he was ready to change out. Sold his cycle stores and inventory.

And the guy who bought them, found five-year-old Yamaha SR 500s and XS400s still in crates...basically he had a fire-sale to clear them out. I had a NEW SR 500, with an MSO title and no mileage...for $900. That was about $400 under sticker; probably a loss for the store.

Today, of course, the SR 500 is a collectable; but no business can wait that long. Not Mark Smith Cycles, Rick Case's renamed chain, which collapsed a year later from the pressures of borrowed money and not enough sales.

Buying a vehicle and storing it against future interest is a high-stakes gamble; and even if there's a payoff years later it's often not enough to make it worth the hassle.

[ClassicVW_imp]

A couple of things come to my mind.
The U.S. economy is just starting to rebound from the recession that started in 2008. Motorcycles are mere toys for 95% of the buyers. Even though motorcycle sales are on the rise again, motorcycle manufacturers have more models in their lineups than ever before. There are literally hundreds of model choices across the manufacturer lines for a potential buyer. I don't see any one model breaking sales figures. Honda must be happy selling less and less of particular models, but spreading it out over many different models.

And I haven't seen Honda spending money on advertising street bikes other than the Goldwing variants. Heck, I see many more Triumph ads in print than Hondas.

[ride4now_imp]

I just got back from Daytona... and did not see ONE CB1100 there the entire weekend except for the two at the exhibit.

[linuxology_imp]

It is quite amazing that the bike is not more popular.

[Motogeezer1949_imp]

Erics CB has been here since Friday. It'll be heading home on the 15th. Saw a black 13 too.