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Offline seanbarney41

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Re: New CB1100 model released
« Reply #25 on: October 06, 2016, 03:00:51 PM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on October 06, 2016, 01:07:17 PM
If they could put it on a diet and make it 455 lbs wet, it would be a good start.  Why in the world does it need to be so stinkin' heavy?
and the horsepower so mediocre...ekpent, you know what your bandit 12 hundy weighs?
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Re: New CB1100 model released
« Reply #26 on: October 06, 2016, 03:25:17 PM »
Quote from: seanbarney41 on October 06, 2016, 03:00:51 PM
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on October 06, 2016, 01:07:17 PM
If they could put it on a diet and make it 455 lbs wet, it would be a good start.  Why in the world does it need to be so stinkin' heavy?
and the horsepower so mediocre...ekpent, you know what your bandit 12 hundy weighs?

At least it's simple enough to unleash the potential of a fuel injected motor.  They have computer programs for it!
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Re: New CB1100 model released
« Reply #27 on: October 06, 2016, 04:25:02 PM »
Quote from: seanbarney41 on October 06, 2016, 03:00:51 PM
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on October 06, 2016, 01:07:17 PM
If they could put it on a diet and make it 455 lbs wet, it would be a good start.  Why in the world does it need to be so stinkin' heavy?
and the horsepower so mediocre...ekpent, you know what your bandit 12 hundy weighs?
I've read around 530 lbs full of gas and oil wet so it is a little bit of a porker. Seems about the same as a cb750 to roll around though.
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Re: New CB1100 model released
« Reply #28 on: October 06, 2016, 04:40:52 PM »
Quote from: flybox1 on October 06, 2016, 08:13:15 AM
They need to try harder.  ::) Maybe take a page our of BMWs playbook.
BMW took their RnineT model, and went better.
The PURE and the HERITAGE


That white BMW is nice, really nice.  I don't normally go for bikes styled like that - but I'll make and exception for that.
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Re: New CB1100 model released
« Reply #29 on: October 06, 2016, 05:11:30 PM »
Quote from: eigenvector on October 06, 2016, 04:40:52 PM
Quote from: flybox1 on October 06, 2016, 08:13:15 AM
They need to try harder.  ::) Maybe take a page our of BMWs playbook.
BMW took their RnineT model, and went better.
The PURE and the HERITAGE


That white BMW is nice, really nice.  I don't normally go for bikes styled like that - but I'll make and exception for that.

I think the "Racer" (BMW R Nine T with fairing) is priced to be cheaper than or the same as the regular R Nine T.  It's a bummer though that they went with the cheaper conventional forks versus the USD forks that come with the regular R Nine T.  And they went with cheaper brake calipers, too.   :(
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Re: New CB1100 model released
« Reply #30 on: October 07, 2016, 08:25:53 AM »
Maybe a lighter 750 version would sell better? A heavy 1100 seems like a chore to ride around in town. And it's not quite equipped for hiway cruising. This CB1100K doesn't have much of a purpose.

And what's wrong with Guzzis!?!?!  8)

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Re: New CB1100 model released
« Reply #31 on: October 07, 2016, 08:17:14 PM »
Quote from: Duanob on October 07, 2016, 08:25:53 AM
Maybe a lighter 750 version would sell better? A heavy 1100 seems like a chore to ride around in town. And it's not quite equipped for hiway cruising. This CB1100K doesn't have much of a purpose.

And what's wrong with Guzzis!?!?!  8)

Honda has the ability to make a great inline 750 motor, but not for a limited appeal bike like this one.  I agree that a lighter bike with an inline 750 or even 800 with lots of torque would sell better.
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1975 CB550F1 frame/CB650 engine hybrid "The Hot Mess" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,150220.0.html)
2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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1973 CB750K2 "Bionic Mongrel" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132734.0) - Sold
1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: New CB1100 model released
« Reply #32 on: October 12, 2016, 04:27:17 PM »
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on October 07, 2016, 08:17:14 PM
Quote from: Duanob on October 07, 2016, 08:25:53 AM
Maybe a lighter 750 version would sell better? A heavy 1100 seems like a chore to ride around in town. And it's not quite equipped for hiway cruising. This CB1100K doesn't have much of a purpose.

And what's wrong with Guzzis!?!?!  8)

Honda has the ability to make a great inline 750 motor, but not for a limited appeal bike like this one.  I agree that a lighter bike with an inline 750 or even 800 with lots of torque would sell better.

Hard to say. the newer Bonnie is a big seller, the Guzzi V7 Stone does OK according to our local guzzi shop, but the Kawi W650 never sold enough here to keep it in production and then the newer W800 never hit our shores. I guess us Americans are fickle! :)
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2007 Moto Guzzi Breva 750ie
2015 BMW F700GS
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Re: New CB1100 model released
« Reply #33 on: October 12, 2016, 04:40:15 PM »
Quote from: Duanob on October 12, 2016, 04:27:17 PM
Quote from: CB750 Cafe Racer Fan on October 07, 2016, 08:17:14 PM
Quote from: Duanob on October 07, 2016, 08:25:53 AM
Maybe a lighter 750 version would sell better? A heavy 1100 seems like a chore to ride around in town. And it's not quite equipped for hiway cruising. This CB1100K doesn't have much of a purpose.

And what's wrong with Guzzis!?!?!  8)

Honda has the ability to make a great inline 750 motor, but not for a limited appeal bike like this one.  I agree that a lighter bike with an inline 750 or even 800 with lots of torque would sell better.

Hard to say. the newer Bonnie is a big seller, the Guzzi V7 Stone does OK according to our local guzzi shop, but the Kawi W650 never sold enough here to keep it in production and then the newer W800 never hit our shores. I guess us Americans are fickle! :)

Meanwhile, over at destination harley davidson
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