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2013 Honda CB1100 ...c'mon Triumph

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#161 ·
Ok, now that's been settled I will say this.
Honda has built some interesting bikes over the years but lately I have been disappointed with there selection and design.
Take the 919. I thought that bike had promis but let down by less than stellar engine performance.
It was beat out at the time by Yamahas FZ-1.
Eventually it went away due to lack of interest.
Believe Hondas marketing decided the naked bikes just didn't do well in the US.
They are wrong.
Build a performance purpose naked and you won't keep them in the show rooms.
Listen up Honda, build it without the Buckrogers flare that a lot of your bikes are looking like theses days and the public might be willing to spend there money on your product.
 
#162 ·
Like the music industry, high sales do not determine whether or not "soul" is present.

P.S. I have never in 40 years of riding ever said, "Wow! That is a great bike!" when referring to a Honda.

My point is every individual determines whether a particular bike has "soul"; Honda or otherwise due to their own tastes.

Not even HAP's collection of pics can convince me otherwise. :ThrowUp
 
#164 ·
There's no doubt that Honda has made some great bikes over the years. The lineup they've been putting out over the last seven or eight years is really dull, though.

They're good bikes, I imagine, but none of them grab me and say " you must buy me."
 
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#175 ·
A real Honda that made thousands of young men dream of riding.



Another real bike from the masters of motorcycles.


Finally, I just want to say I rode hondas on the dirt, asphalt and street. Loved them. The Rhone was the start of ugly and it hasn't stopped.




Enjoy
 
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#179 · (Edited)
If Honda spent one half the time and money working on really desirable street bikes as they do with the racing effort we might get something.
http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2013/Nakamoto+talks+Production+Bike

I am looking at a 2012 V4 Factory Aprilia this afternoon. Close out price. Tiny as my old 675. Honda had the same opportunity to use their V4 engine in a smaller, more nimble bike but instead created the 1200 VFR wanna be.
A CB400F of bygone era.

The current model. Guess I am stuck on older styles rather than the gaudy plastic ones. A Triumph alternative to the CB1100.I am done here.

 
#181 ·
My 79 CB750F was a great bike, or so I thought - it was my first. My 85 VF500F was absolutely stellar; bought brand new off the showroom floor with my caddy money. My 90 CB-1 was even better, but then came the CBR400RR and NC30 I rode while living overseas. I was so enamored of the NC30 I wanted to pull a Radar O'Reilly with it, but the shipping company wouldn't have it. Since about the mid-90's though, I've lost interest in Honda. The first bike I bought when I moved home was a Suzuki SV650S. Now I have the Street Triple, to which Honda has nothing that is even close.

I've said it before, but if any of the Japanese manufacturers want to lop a cylinder off one of their 600 super sports, keep the frame, suspension, and brakes, bin the bodywork, and sort some rational ergos - resulting in basically a 450 Street Triple - I would be more than interested, but what are the odds anything like that might happen?

My money is on nil. :dunno
 
#183 ·
I was countering this post in general, and the bold portion specifically. I realize it was a few posts ago, so it probably slipped from your memory.


Like the music industry, high sales do not determine whether or not "soul" is present.

P.S. I have never in 40 years of riding ever said, "Wow! That is a great bike!" when referring to a Honda.

My point is every individual determines whether a particular bike has "soul"; Honda or otherwise due to their own tastes.

Not even HAP's collection of pics can convince me otherwise. :ThrowUp
 
#190 ·
Perhaps I shouldn't have said cheaper, but the bike as a whole just felt flimsier if that makes sense. My T100 feels very solid (I know, it has plastic parts too). I can't really put my finger on it, but everything from the seat to the controls just had a different feel. Mind you, all I did was sit on it, but didn't get to ride it.
 
#201 ·
I rode a GS1100E, once. I took a freeway onramp that has an "S" shape to it and I got the whole bike to wallow like a duck in heat. Scared the crap outa me as I wasn't going fast (yet!) Turns out that model had a problem with it's "spindlie" front forks. (They flexed a lot.) I thought it odd and returned the bike, got back on my GS750EZ and rode it for another year.

THE 1100 was the "big gun" in town. It did the quartermile in 11.21@ 121! While that seems slow now, it was the king of the hill in 1981.
I think the first bike into the "tens" was Honda's V65 Sabre (and it's a shaftie!)

While I like the "UJM", I'm afraid we'll keep seeing "specialty" bikes until there's tiered licensing. I'll never own a 1500cc and up motorcycle, (and this coming from a guy who owns an LS-7 powered car...)

I'm not afraid of displacement, but I'm not seeing a use for 2 liter motorcycles (yes, I know about the Rocket.)
 
#194 · (Edited)
This thread has me so irritated. not by the cb1100 exactly, althought it looks ehh, although cafeing it would be cool.
As a classic triple owner i'm irritated because there is so much desire from members here to bring back that line, or style. they are the bigger better version of a bonnie. It irritates me that the line failed. And that the standard bike in general does not do well in the U.S...
I think the problem is the average person has no clue they exist. a motorcycle is either a crotch rocket or a harley (how many people don't even know they make triumphs again). those two types of bikes have very stereotyped identities.. so people think "well i'm not that burly, leather, "biker gang" style person. And I'm not a young guy looking to go 200 mph into the nearest tree or play racer... so i guess i don't like motorcycles."

if someone would just run a superbowl ad for a standard bike, and give some kind of physical identity to the rider of a standard bike (showing the inbetween of biker-sportbiker).. i think standard bikes would finally catch on. People just don't know they exist and manufacturers release them so limitedly people never get exposed to them.

And for chrissake bring back the TBS already Triumph! It blows me away how many people would love some kind of a cross between a bonnie and a street triple.. when the option was around, no one knew they exised, so it died.

ok just had to let that out.

edit: superbowl ad with brett favre riding a tbs in his wranglers. hahaha
 
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