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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE17JeVhLd0
as you can see there, magazines in Asia are starting to talk about that..
would you buy such a model, with water cooling and DCT (as it happens to see from the images..)?
seems heavily based on the new CB350 lines.
personally, never !
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GB1100 for 2022 / 2023 with DCT?
Not surprising to learn about such a discussion.
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DCT would be a deal breaker for me. I would be fine with water cooled engine. Strange choice they made of traditional fork with radial mount calipers. Not sure I've seen that combo before on anything else. Love the tank design.
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It looks like a twin. I’d be happier if it were an inline 4.
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(08-25-2021, 09:39 PM)Phadreus_imp Wrote: DCT would be a deal breaker for me. I would be fine with water cooled engine. Strange choice they made of traditional fork with radial mount calipers. Not sure I've seen that combo before on anything else. Love the tank design.
If the GB1100 becomes reality, Honda knows how to integrate a non-DCT into the assembly. Whether they would is a marketing question since the DCT is an technology and business success for Honda.
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It has for me the 'old school' look.
But the engine does not look particuliarly good. Air cooling are very rare nowadays and maybe we should do with...
I think I will bought it if it appears on the market.
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in my opinion, if they must switch to water cooling because of euro-regulations, they should do the exact same thing Kawasaki did with the Z900RS: by working on the CB1000R "base", make the engine response mellower and less powerful, then putting on it some retro tank and plastics, retro instruments, higher bars, softer suspension.. voilà !
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(08-25-2021, 09:43 PM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: (08-25-2021, 09:39 PM)Phadreus_imp Wrote: DCT would be a deal breaker for me. I would be fine with water cooled engine. Strange choice they made of traditional fork with radial mount calipers. Not sure I've seen that combo before on anything else. Love the tank design.
If the GB1100 becomes reality, Honda knows how to integrate a non-DCT into the assembly. Whether they would is a marketing question since the DCT is an technology and business success for Honda.
If the GB1100 becomes reality, Honda knows how to integrate a non-DCT into the assembly. Whether they would is a marketing question since the DCT is an technology and business success for Honda. Wonder if they would go to the trouble to offer DCT as an option, Manual as standard?
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Got to admit that it's not as good looking as a CB 1100 but riding around on my NC 750DCT I often think a bike with CB 1100 power (HP and torque) with a DCT would be a fantastic motorcycle.
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first of all....a liquid cooled version of our bike with legtimate classic styling (not neo retro) and a lighter weight? yes. WOULD BUY.
anyway, the bike the in the video looks like they've finally started to do something with this patent that was filed in 2018:
![[Image: f4060ff0a1bcc125017daa08f653d813.ashx?h=...5E17D18DA5]](https://cb1100forum.net/forum/uploads/imp/202108/f4060ff0a1bcc125017daa08f653d813.ashx?h=493&w=740&la=en&hash=3ED6275AB794E98A836E4CA26DD0075E17D18DA5)
Might very well have a monoshock
