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<\/p>\nNot as measured by the compass, mind you, but as measured in dollars.\u00a0 A 1980 Honda CBX recently sold at auction in Las Vegas for a whopping $49,500.\u00a0 Wow.<\/p>\n
The CBX originally debuted in 1979, and production continued through 1982.\u00a0 The first two years featured naked bikes (no windshield, no fairing, and no bags); the last two years were equipped with bags, fairings, and a little bit of detuning to make them a bit more reliable.\u00a0 The bikes were (and are) impressive, with wide engines (the engine was a straight six mounted across the frame), six carbs, six headers, and 24 valves.\u00a0 I think those CBX Hondas were and still are beautiful.<\/p>\n
When the CBX first came out in 1979, I was living in Fort Worth.\u00a0 I rode my Triumph over to the local Honda dealer, and the guy let me take a silver one out (by myself) for a test ride.\u00a0 I immediately headed to Loop 820.\u00a0 It’s where I used to open up my ’78 Bonneville, which would touch an indicated 109 miles per hour.\u00a0 Naturally, being a wise-beyond-my-years 28, I did a top end run with the brand new CBX.\u00a0 I don’t remember what its speedo went up to, but I do remember running out of resolve at something north of 135 miles per hour (the bike still had more left).\u00a0 \u00a0The CBX was an impressive motorcycle.<\/p>\n
I turned it around and headed back to the dealer, and when I arrived, I leaned the bike over on its side stand and left the engine running.\u00a0 \u00a0It was leaking oil from the left valve cover, and it was kind of pulsing out like I had nicked an artery.\u00a0 The sales guy came up, eager to close a deal, and asked what I thought of it.\u00a0 “Not for me,” I said, pointing to the oil leak.\u00a0 “It’s already leaking oil.”<\/p>\n
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But the CBX bug had bitten.\u00a0 About a dozen years later, I had moved to southern California and I rode a ’92 Harley Softail (didn’t everyone back then?), and I saw a pristine ’82 CBX at Bert’s MegaMall in Azusa.\u00a0 \u00a0It was $4500, and I had to have it.\u00a0 I bought that bike and rode it for another 10 years, and I did some serious touring on it.\u00a0 That’s me you see in the photo at the top of this blog somewhere in Arizona with good buddy Lou and his Goldwing.<\/p>\n
The CBX was an amazing machine, and I felt that way the entire time I owned it.\u00a0 I sold it when Honda stopped stocking parts for the CBX because I was worried that if something complicated broke, I’d have a $4500 paperweight.\u00a0 I put it in the CycleTrader and it sold the next day.\u00a0 I thought I had done well because I sold it for what I had paid for it 10 years earlier.\u00a0 If I only knew what they’d be going for today.<\/p>\n
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