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The 1983 Honda CB1100R (Page 3)The aluminum clip-ons are higher and wider than the units used on the Suzuki Katana and are mounted above the triple clamps on the protruding ends of the fork tubes. They can be adjusted by swiveling them around on the tubes, and by loosening one bolt on each side, a certain amount of droop adjustment is also possible. However, the clearance limits of the fairing dictate the range of adjustment. The seating position is surprisingly comfortable for a race-bred machine; Honda’s ergonomics apparently spent quite a bit of time juggling the seat, footpeg, and handlebar positions to make sure no one part of the rider’s anatomy was called on to do more than its loadcarrying share. The controls and instruments are standard European Honda pieces; an electronic tach replaces the mechanical unit found on our 900F, and the speedometer, of course, reads out all the way past 150 mph. Our usual road-testing sequence lasts quite a few days, with each staffer get ting a chance to form a relationship with the machine in question. The R wasn’t just another in a manufacturer’s fleet of test bikes, though; it had a real, live, flesh-and-blood owner, and he was with us every step of the way, concern (or was it terror?) written all over his face. The R is surprisingiy docile and manageable in slow city traffic. The low seat height makes it easy to relax at stoplights, as you drink in the admiring glances of mere pedestrians. With no EPA smog rules to mess up the carburetion, the 150mph Honda is, if anything, more driveable than most Americanspec Japanese street bikes; the characteristic off-idle lean surge we’ve all learned to accept on other bikes just isn’t there. The engine gives no sign of its capaCity for heavy horsepower production within the city limits. It’s smooth, torquey, and relatively quiet, even with the single-wall exhaust header pipes. With the same steering-head angle and wheelbase as the 900F, we expected light steering and rock-solid stability when we got the R out on the open roads. The stability is there, but the steering is surprisingly slow; the leverage lost with the narrow clip-ons makes it change direction very deliberately. Riding the 1100R quickly took some getting used to. More than any other sporting street bike in recent memory,the R wants to stand up, and hard, if the rider trails the front brake into corners. This is a function of the very wide tires’ offset contact patches; braking weight transfer wants to act through the center of the tire. When the bike is leaned over, the distance between the contact patch and the center of the tire creates quite a substantial lever arm, which tries to pull the bike upright. On other street bikes with wide tires, the front suspension is set up soft enough to make the stand-up tendency less abrupt, but with the 1100R’s taut suspension the effect is quite pronounced. We soon learned to keep our fingers off the lever any time we wanted to flick the big Honda into a corner quickly. The special Michelins offer impressive grip, but their transition from straight up-and-down to thief corner contact patches feels a little less than confidence-inspiring. They like to be going straight or cornering hard. It’s almost as if the tires were impatient with anything short of full racetrack speeds. The machine’s cornering clearance is seemingly unlimited. After you’ve leaned the bike over about five degrees farther than you think is prudent, you start begging to feel something, anything, touch down, just to give you some indication that there’s still a road down there somewhere. We still had a little unused cornering tread on the edges of the Michelins at the end of our testing, so it’s quite possible that a CB1100R owner with more brio than brains will manage to touch the peg feelers down before he runs out of tire. However, with the owner of our very expensive R standing watch fully by during photo sessions, we were not about to press the issue. In high-speed corners, just as advertised, the CB shows what it was built to do. Its narrow bars, huge tires, and relatively slow steering geometry make it feel very stable and confidence-inspiring in triple digit cornering. The suspension rates, both front and rear, feel a bit stiff in slower going on bumpy canyon roads, but when the speeds come up, everything works together like the Lakers on a May night. On trailing throttle, the CB showed a tendency to fall into the slower corners a bit, but at higher speeds the chassis stayed delightfully neutral all the way through the longer sweepers.
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