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24 Hour Road Test - 1983 Honda CB1100FThe Old Guard Sets the New Superbike Standard More than a decade ago, Honda invented the Modern Superbike Game. It’s a game that aU the other Japanese manufacturers have been play-ing feverishly ever since. Honda laid the ground rules with the original CB750, and the basic in-line-four engine layout pioneered in that bike has been the basis for the fastest street bikes to date. The inline configuration proved so popular that eventually the Japa-nese powers joined the game with those that were better and, in some cases, bigger than the Honda. Honda improved its 750 but didn’t compete with the others by building a larger version. Honda started the game, then seemed to lose interest in playing. Instead, the thinkers at Honda were devising a whole new superbike game, one that they hoped would be even more popular than the previous one. It was played with six cylinders, and although the CBX six was briefly the King of Quick, it started no trends and was soon eclipsed by faster fours, So much for that game. Almost no one had yet grown tired of the inline four; it was, and still is, an engine well suited to motorcycle use. But while the Battle of the Fast Fours raged on, Honda, the inventor, seemed content to spectate. It had its 750, but the other guys were playing hardball with 1000s and 1100s. After a time Yama-ha faded out of the fray, and just the two upstarts, Suzuki and Kawasaki, kepi on playing. In 1981 Honda dealt itself in for a hand with the CB900F, but it wasn’t intended to be a direct assault on the su-perbike powers. The other players were not frightened by the 900, but they knew Honda was capable of much more. If Honda wanted to, it could blow the iná tine game wide open. In fact, the compa-ny was already building a bike that could challenge the GS1100E and GPzl100 for dominance: the CB1100R, not sold in the United States. Would Honda get riled enough to bring it in? Most observers thought not. The in-line four-though still the main-stay of motorcycling-is now losing its near-monopoly in the marketplace. The four has become so utterly common-place that sales are being lost to newer, more exotic designs. The market is ready for something new. Right about now you’d expect Honda to introduce a totally different engine design for a bike that competes with the current super-bikes. Indeed, plenty of rumors indicate that an 1100cc V-4 is due any minute. The surprise is that it is apparently not aimed at the sporting market. but ru-mored instead to be a boulevard cruiser. Though it may be Honda’s quickest mo-torcycle, and perhaps even the quickest street-legal motorcycle ever, it won’t be going head-to-head with the sporting GS or GPz1100 for the superbike crown. You wouldn’t expect Honda to start playing by the rules this late in the game, but that’s exactly what it is doing with the 1983 CB1100F. Here, finally, is a bike that is a direct challenge to the super-bike powers. Honda is going after the su-perbike market-not with an unproven bag of tricks-but with an uncharacteris-tically conventional, tried-and true weap-on. This basic engine has been in proá duction four years, first as a 750, then as a 900 too. European 1100s have also been produced for a couple of years, so most of the pieces were on hand. Maybe Honda decided to prove that it could win the game it started. The CB1100F fills a hole in the Honda lineup that has been vacant since the CBX fizzled back in 1978. It’s a machine that many riders have been lusting after for years. Why it was so long in coming is a bit of a mystery. Maybe the 1100 was delayed to give the CBX some breathing room or to give the CB900F a chance to test the market for a big sporty bike. Maybe it’s part of some grand scheme. Maybe not. Whatever the reason, it’s about time. The wait seemed twice as long as it was, since the racy CB 1100R has been available in Europe for the last two years. In the past, when asked about the possibility of the 1100R being imported here, the response from Honda was. “It’s not reliable enough for America” or “It’s not right for the U.S. market; cafe racers don’t sell here.” Mo-torcyclist tested the CB 1100R just two months ago, and we’d have to agree, at least partly. We didn’t have our bor-rowed test bike long enough to see what it took to break it, so we can’t really comment on its reliability. As to whether the R is right for America, the answer is no. The 1100R is as narrowly focused a motorcycle as the Suzuki Katana. That means it would make a handful of riders deliriously happy, but wouldn’t have the broad appeal of the GS 1100E or GPz1100. Assuming Honda wanted back into the mainstream superbike game, the cafe R-model would have been a poor choice. What U.S. riders end up with is the CB1100F, a bike that has its roots in the American 750 and 900 and looks nearly identical to the smaller ones.
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