How you know you love this bike

[the Ferret]

Yes that is true Sea

Isn't she beautiful?

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[Ack-CB11_imp]

I love those new silver motors

[Cormanus]

I love those new silver motors

For some of us they're old! We had 'em in 2010. Sadly, we've never seen the black motors.

Ferret, she's a creature of great beauty.

[the Ferret]

Rode her tonight out to get a cheeseburger and some fries. 75 miles round trip. What a great motorcycle

[DAC]

You know you love this bike when you finish changing the oil and you just sit there and stare at it. Up close, even the engine is just a thing of beauty.

[ClassicVW_imp]

If you park it and walk away and don't turn and look back at it, you bought the wrong motorcycle.

[Short Timer_imp]

Honda could have made a solid retro and skimped on the looks or they could have made a beautiful looking retro with nothing beyond "the pretty face".

Instead they made a modern high performer with a retro look that is simply a work of art.

Just got back from a 60 miler (skipped the cheeseburger ) and then just stood and stared at 'er in the last dim light of the day.

I've owned a bunch of bikes in my time and when asked, always said my favorite was whatever I happened to be riding at the time. But this one is the real deal.

ClassicVw, you just said it best!

[OldF7Guy_imp]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I swear I dont think I have ever seen a motorcycle I thought was prettier than a 1100 dlx. I like my 750 a lot and found some excuse to go somewhere tonight that was about 40 miles before dark. Boy, I had a couple of scares of late with deer so everybody be careful if your out just before dark.

[flynrider]

If you park it and walk away and don't turn and look back at it, you bought the wrong motorcycle.

I always feel a bit embarrassed when I do that after parking it at work. I'm wondering if the security guards are watching me staring at my bike on the security cams

[Guth_imp]

It starts when you seemingly punish yourself by repeatedly looking at photos of a bike that will supposedly never be released in the country where you live — dreaming of what will never be. Tack on viewing some youtube videos for the full on painful effect. It grows when you read reports about some guy that works for Honda, riding around your country on the bike you've been rather smitten with. Apparently, he's on a mission to gather feedback. Word is that the bike will still never make it to where you live, but you can't help but get rather excited.

Next thing you know, after many months have passed, you're staying up all night just to find out if the bike is going to be one of those Honda is actually going to be releasing in your country (waiting for a press release to be issued from three time zones ahead of you). Then, after learning that the bike is indeed bound for the country where you live, you end up placing an order for that bike sight unseen before your dealer is even familiar with the details. Finally, you buy the bike without so much as a test ride.

You know, when the feeling continues to grow that no other bike can flip as many of your switches as the bike that you now own, not even the newly released models that follow. You still can't believe that the bike you own is the same as the bike that the lucky guy from Honda was riding around on way back when. That which seemed like unobtanium has become the familiar, and it only gets better with time.

Oh, and you start a forum dedicated to that bike and spend too much of your free time online with a bunch of other folks that are apparently somehow just as crazy about the CB1100 as you are (including the spirited '14 DLX crowd ).