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Super Black Bird commercial
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Dark Angel
Still kickin' it!
Thanks for the post - it’s good to look back and realise that I’ve lived most of my personal dreams by virtue of the bike of my fantasies, a machine that's played a major part in making those dreams a reality. What a bike the Blackbird was, and is - and what a bike it continues to be.
It was strange how the thrill of discovery returned when I viewed this fuzzy, wrinkled old advert. The visual presentation brought back many memories; including the all-encompassing sense of absorption I experienced when I first saw a Honda Blackbird - defined first by a picture in a bike magazine and then presented “in the flesh” at the Motorcycle City showroom in Manchester. For me, it was love at first sight. The fascination with this machine is still with me and it will never leave me: of this I am sure.
I’m old enough and experienced enough to know that there are currently available modern bikes that are “better” in some ways than the old Honda: but I’m biker enough not to care. There are enough spares and modifications out there now to enable anyone to make a “modern” bike out of a Blackbird - but there’s no way you can make a Blackbird out of a modern bike. To me, the CBR1100XX is a once-in-a-generation experiment that is still relevant today in terms of comfort, performance and reliability - more than twenty years after its introduction into mainstream motorcycling - and guess what?
Yeah. That’s right.
I’ve got one!
HAVE YOU???!
It was strange how the thrill of discovery returned when I viewed this fuzzy, wrinkled old advert. The visual presentation brought back many memories; including the all-encompassing sense of absorption I experienced when I first saw a Honda Blackbird - defined first by a picture in a bike magazine and then presented “in the flesh” at the Motorcycle City showroom in Manchester. For me, it was love at first sight. The fascination with this machine is still with me and it will never leave me: of this I am sure.
I’m old enough and experienced enough to know that there are currently available modern bikes that are “better” in some ways than the old Honda: but I’m biker enough not to care. There are enough spares and modifications out there now to enable anyone to make a “modern” bike out of a Blackbird - but there’s no way you can make a Blackbird out of a modern bike. To me, the CBR1100XX is a once-in-a-generation experiment that is still relevant today in terms of comfort, performance and reliability - more than twenty years after its introduction into mainstream motorcycling - and guess what?
Yeah. That’s right.
I’ve got one!
HAVE YOU???!
Although I've seen the advert before, I hadn't seen it before I got mine.
As a newly qualified rider in about 97 or 98 i was out with a few work mates. Ones of the guys dad came with us on his red one. I fell in love with it there and then. Didnt get mine until 2009 though.
As a newly qualified rider in about 97 or 98 i was out with a few work mates. Ones of the guys dad came with us on his red one. I fell in love with it there and then. Didnt get mine until 2009 though.
They dont make adds like that anymore...it would offend the wokeists ,environmentalists, and feminists on so many levels....I loved it by the way...
What on earth is ‘Honda multi-active suspension system’?
I thought the Blackbird has a Couple of springs and a bit of oil at the front and a shock the rear
I thought the Blackbird has a Couple of springs and a bit of oil at the front and a shock the rear
Unfortunately not a carb red one.
Apologies, I had no idea that the Bird suspension was so sophisticated
