Today’s classic and very striking Honda CB1100R was based on the CB900F and built to homologate Honda’s big-bore sportbike for endurance racing. It was powered by a 1062cc version of their air-cooled four that featured plenty of exotic go-fast bits, made 115hp, and motivated a claimed 520lbs dry. That figure sounds pretty portly by today’s standards, but it was pretty par for the course in the early 1980s.
A beefed-up frame helped keep all that power and mass in check, and the resulting bike had the traditional Japanese superbike qualities of speed and supreme stability. Honda’s first use of dual-piston calipers helped the heavy machine stop as well, and it was pretty successful in taking the fight to rivals from Kawasaki and Suzuki.
This bike is listed as a 1980 model, I’d understood that these were built between 1981-1983. Regardless, just 1,050 of the first-year “RB” models were sold, with a mere 1,500 built in ’82 and then another 1,500 in ’83, so these are rare birds no matter what year is listed on the title.
From the original eBay listing: 1980 Honda CB1100R for Sale
I have for sale a genuine Honda CB1100RB that has not been restored, never raced, tampered with, and has genuine 1617 km on the bike.
This model is one of the first 130 bikes ever made and sent too Australia for sale. A lot of the early model bikes were used in the Castrol 6 hour production race.
The early bikes all arrived from Japan Without fairings as did this one but I later purchased the genuine Honda fairing for this model when they arrived .
The total number of bikes produced was 1050 world wide in which many of them were raced and or crashed beyond repair.
Whoever purchases this investment will not be disappointed.
This bike appears to be in very nice condition and, although CB1100Rs straddle the vintage and modern eras, they can go for $20,000 or more on the rare occasion one does come up for sale. It’s a shame I’m unlikely to see one here in the states: they were never sold here and this particular bike is available in Balgowlah, Australia, which sounds like an awesome city to be from. I’ve never been there, so I’ll just pretend it’s wild place, full of dangerous local fauna, although it’s more likely just a quiet suburb of northern Sydney…
-tad
Well, nobody including the seller has mentioned the fact that there’s NO freaking exhaust system shown or even mentioned!
Nice bike, with the exception of the aforementioned exhaust.
And what’s up with the passenger foot peg(s)?
A Buy It Now of $30,000.00?
Yikes!
Clean looking bike till you get to the exhaust though………………………. Well as the Mastercard commercial goes : Ad for motorcycle : $40 Cleaning products and wax : $60 Being left high and dry without an exhaust system : Priceless !!! 🙂
Add –
1. No front indicators. Left hand “tucked” inside the fairing.
2. Screws (3) to attach the seat/rear cowling missing.
1617kms genuine ? Nope !
This thing is cool as heck. Albeit a tad loud…
Give Sanctuary a call. I’m sure they can whip something up for it. Or email, since they’re in Japan…
Well given the fact the dude can’t spell, use words correctly or know when to use capitals, it’s hardly surprising he forgot the exhaust…
Go back to Tads’ previous post on July 15, 2014 here and see one example for sale here in CANADA (Ontario) for waaaay less $$$ . It was about $6500 Canadian from what I heard . The guy was upfront about the condition and it was missing its exhaust but not $30 000 ! The fins needed a little TLC but nothing outrageous . And there are places in the world that can still find you OEM pipes for the bikes . Even if you have to pay a couple grand your bike will be worth alot of $$ once restored .
Yeah, as I remember it was up for sale several times with no buyers. Wonder what became of it?
I actually prefer it WITHOUT the exhaust system.It gives a less bulky,bottom-heavy look to the bike.
Yeah, if I ruled out listings based on spelling and grammar, these articles would be few and far between… My editorial impulses often see me editing the worst of the errors. And I since ALL CAPITALS drives me crazy, I of course have to retype those listings entirely.
Australia didn’t get fairing models..