Sold the ST

st11ray

st11ray

2006 ST1300
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charlotte, nc
Bike
'06 ST1300
I sold my '06 yesterday morning.
I've had the bike since '07 and put 96k trouble free miles on it. I hope the new owner enjoys it as much as I did.
I'll hang around since I bought another ST (Super Tenere). Hopefully I can get 100k trouble free miles out of it.
 
st11ray said:
I sold my '06 yesterday morning.
I've had the bike since '07 and put 96k trouble free miles on it. I hope the new owner enjoys it as much as I did.
I'll hang around since I bought another ST (Super Tenere). Hopefully I can get 100k trouble free miles out of it.
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Congrats on the new Super Tenere!
You'll find out like most of us, that you came here for the bike, but you stayed here for the folks :WCP1:
I sold my 07 a while back, because it was getting too heavy for me to enjoy it as much as I used to.
My Nephew gifted me a 2015 Kawasaki Versys 650LT with only 800 miles on it to keep me riding :bannana:
I rode 1k miles from the California bay area to Tucson Arizona a couple days ago and was more than impressed to say the least.
It was so much more comfortable than my big heavy ST was, and I had no problem doing 600 plus miles the first day on the way back, and 400 the next day to get home.
Enjoy your ST, and I'm sure we'll chat again soon.
Ride safe my friend.
Larry
 
tpasco1995 said:
I'll go a step further and point out that Honda accidentally released a VIN decoder for 2025 (that's now redacted) that had the civilian NT1100 (as well as a DCT Rebel 300).

It's a shame to lose shaft drive but modern chains aren't terrible.
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From what I gather from our friends from Canada, the civilian NT 1100 doesn't even come with bags. What kind of bike with the "tourer" designation, doesn't come from the factory with bags?

Both of my current bikes are chain driven. Are the chains horrible? No. Are they wonderful? Absoluetly NO!

Chains may be cheap, easy to replace and make it easy to change gearing, but it is certainly not the most convenient for the rider way to power a motorcycle meant to eat up miles cross country or cross continents.

The 520 chain on my NC 750 lasts approx 20,000 miles. I'm on my third one. The 530 chain on my CB 1100 lasts about 40,000. I'm about to put on my 3rd one. Oh and 3 sets of sprockets on each. Plus labor. If you ride a lot, chains are very labor intensive and collectively expensive.

I put 110,000 miles on my ST 1300. Care to guess how many shafts I replaced? None. Only a few ounces of oil once a year.

Can you imagine how angry people would be if they put chains on cars?
 
the Ferret said:
From what I gather from our friends from Canada, the civilian NT 1100 doesn't even come with bags. What kind of bike with the "tourer" designation, doesn't come from the factory with bags?
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According to the Honda Canada website they are available as an option. No price- Contact dealer.

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the Ferret said:
From what I gather from our friends from Canada, the civilian NT 1100 doesn't even come with bags. What kind of bike with the "tourer" designation, doesn't come from the factory with bags?

Both of my current bikes are chain driven. Are the chains horrible? No. Are they wonderful? Absoluetly NO!

Chains may be cheap, easy to replace and make it easy to change gearing, but it is certainly not the most convenient for the rider way to power a motorcycle meant to eat up miles cross country or cross continents.

The 520 chain on my NC 750 lasts approx 20,000 miles. I'm on my third one. The 530 chain on my CB 1100 lasts about 40,000. I'm about to put on my 3rd one. Oh and 3 sets of sprockets on each. Plus labor. If you ride a lot, chains are very labor intensive and collectively expensive.

I put 110,000 miles on my ST 1300. Care to guess how many shafts I replaced? None. Only a few ounces of oil once a year.

Can you imagine how angry people would be if they put chains on cars?
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The 520 X-ring chain on my NC is just over 26,000 miles now. No complaints.
 
When I sold my '04 John it felt like I was giving away a kid. I have moved on but also still here and attending OH-SToc this summer. The gatherings are definitely more dominated by all of the other bikes now but still just as fun getting to see everyone.

Skip
 
Larry Fine said:

chain drive car at DuckDuckGo

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Honda actually made a chain drive Sports car in the mid 60's called an S 600. I think it lasted 3 years IIRC

www.onallcylinders.com

This Incredibly Rare 1966 Honda S600 is an Evolutionary Link Between Honda's Cars & Motorcycles (It's Chain Drive, Too!)

As one of Honda's first cars, the pint-size S600 coupe is filled with innovation—and a lot of tech borrowed from Honda's motorcycle division.
www.onallcylinders.com www.onallcylinders.com
 
dduelin said:
The 520 X-ring chain on my NC is just over 26,000 miles now. No complaints.
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That's really good. Are you running an oiler? Think it will see 40K?

I got 23,405 miles out of the original, 19,432 out of my second.
 
Andrew Shadow said:
According to the Honda Canada website they are available as an option. No price- Contact dealer.

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If they are like the factory bags for the NC 750 I'm guessing about $1200 plus mounting hardware, plus another $600 if you want a trunk. So another couple grand added to the cost of the bike to outfit it for actual touring.
 
Even in the European spare parts catalog there are no prices for the side cases individually.
holm from germany
 
the Ferret said:
If they are like the factory bags for the NC 750 I'm guessing about $1200 plus mounting hardware, plus another $600 if you want a trunk. So another couple grand added to the cost of the bike to outfit it for actual touring.
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Quick input, the kitting isn't even available in Canada just yet, but I called a dealership and the pannier set is going to be $1,717 CAD, or $1,183 USD. $1200 wasn't a bad shout.

The bike comes in at $17,599 CAD for the 6-speed manual and $18,599 CAD for the DCT, so either $12,117 or $12,799 USD is the price target at the moment. Adding in the $1,200 for panniers, that's $13,317 or $13,999 USD for the complete bike.

Given the ST1300 wrapped up 12 years ago at $13K base and $14,500 for ABS, the fact that you can get most of the way there with the same 1100 they're tossing in hundreds of thousands of bikes means decent part support on a reliable platform.
 
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