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2015 Honda Cb1100 Review

2015 Honda Cb1100 Review

Do you recall how the first Cb750 felt? Maybe you're of the age that you had involvement with this world-beating Honda and comprehended the setting how the CB's plush single-cam four was in no way like the rowdy two-stroke Kawasaki triples or the unstable British twins. It was fast, advanced, dependable, and shockingly simple to ride. An imperative machine, beyond any doubt, however more a sample of dazzling capability than adrenaline-pumping energy.


Today, the discussion encompassing the Cb1100 is about styling, how Honda functioned additional time to run full retro with genuine steel bumpers, simply so extents, and the notable CB-style tank shape. Enormous Red even made its first all-new air-cooled inline-four in decades. From most points, the Cb11 completely looks the part. It's low, long, and shows up abnormally smaller in today's universe of congested ADV bicycles and enormous boned nakeds. Cooling blades, tubular-steel outline parts, round fog light, and an unadorned instrument bunch truly pull the look together.

Anyway what you can't tell until you ride it is the means by which delicate and forgetting the Cb1100 is. "I never thought I'd say a 1100 would make an extraordinary learner bicycle, however the Cb1100 truly would," Group Publisher Andy Leisner said after a day on board the CB, noting its greatly delicate beginning throttle reaction, light (and dynamic) grip, low seat, and for the most part agreeable air. Offer credit to Honda for securing an identity target and hitting it dead on: From the torquey (however not especially exuberant) motor and delicate (yet decently controlled) suspension to the connected, ABS-supported brakes and stable taking care of, the CB considers your inquiry, breathes out gradually, and says, "Take it simple, buddy."


No identity moves in the year since it appeared, yet the Cb1100 has an additional apparatus for 2014, and additionally a Deluxe form that incorporates connected ABS brakes, a two-suppressor debilitate framework, updated and shade matched side spreads, and a 4.6-gallon tank, up from 3.9 gallons on a year ago's model and the current year's base bicycle. Pay special mind to a generous value knock however; the base bicycle is up $400, now at $10,399, and the Deluxe runs $11,899.


Sixth rigging makes the CB calmer on the expressway, however, honestly, we'd favor shorter general outfitting to make the 86-hp, 571-pound bicycle feel somewhat less soaked from 60 to 80 mph. Something else, execution is agreeably energetic if not precisely focused by cutting edge literbike measures.


Execution is an almost insignificant talk, the sprig of parsley alongside the succulent cheeseburger. Reality is, the Cb1100 totally without the scarcest dithering looks right, feels right (for the period), and comports itself in precisely the privilege way. Like the first 750, this CB is not an execution ground-breaker, however it is great.


2015 Honda Cb1100 Spec

Price                                                  $11,899

Engine                                               1140cc, air-/oil-cooled inline-four

TRANSMISSION/FINAL Drive     6-rate/chain

Asserted Horsepower                       86.0 hp @ 7500 rpm

Asserted Torque                                65.6 lb-ft @ 5700 rpm

Frame                                                Tubular-steel twofold support

FRONT Suspension                          Showa 41mm fork flexible for  preload of spring; 4.2-in. travel

Back Suspension                               Showa stuns flexible for  preload of spring; 4.5-in. travel

FRONT Brake                                   Dual Nissin four-cylinder calipers, 296mm plates with ABS

Back Brake                                        Nissin one-cylinder caliper, 256mm plate with ABS

RAKE/Trail                                       27º/4.4 inch.

Wheelbase                                         58.7 inch.

SEAT Height                                     31.2 inch.

FUEL Capacity                                  4.6 gal.

MEASURED Weight                        571/543 lb. tank full/exhaus