Bought Me An Early Christmas Present

[Uncle Phil]

Since I like to have 'spares', I've been watching this one for quite a while.
CMS finally dropped the price and made the shipping reasonable so I jumped on it -



This is the OEM 35l (tall one) top box for the ST1100s and I have them on all four of my 'runners'.
I was aware of the 'other' blue that ST1100s came in across the pond, but I've never seen this color - it's gorgeous in the flesh!
Makes me wish I could find all the other pieces in that color and RedBird would become BlueBird.

 

[motofisch]

Sweet!

 

[Hound]

A well-deserved "present" methinks, UP. Congratulations!

 

[W0QNX]

Who is CMS?

 

[Upt' North]

Who is CMS?

CMS NL. Stockists for all sorts of elusive treasure in the Netherlands.
Upt.

 

[wizel]

Please don't buy CMS in the Netherlands empty.
They already supply the whole of Europe, including me in Germany.

greetings holm

 

[Erdoc48]

Very cool find. Rare as well! I’m trying my best not to spend any excess money for the holidays. I’m only part time now and a little broke these days (mostly because the Mrs. keeps finding other things to spend the money on including carpentry work).

 

[ST1100Y]

This is the OEM 35l (tall one) top box for the ST1100s...

Also got the hardware? (carrier plate etc...)

 

[the Ferret]

Merry Christmas

CSM.NL is where I had to buy the low seat for my wife's Yamaha XMAX 300 scooter. For some reason it's not available in the US according to Yamaha US, who wouldn't even order it for us. Got in about a week from the Netherlands.

 

[skipcurt]

It looks like the same color as the '04 1300.

Skip

 

[Uncle Phil]

Also got the hardware? (carrier plate etc...)

Nope, but I have spares of those.
It is interesting that the locks are the 'cheaper' locks that came on the short boxes.
But I've got spares for those also.
I figure this one was probably 'the last new one in captivity'.

 

[ST1100Y]

It is interesting that the locks are the 'cheaper' locks that came on the short boxes.

I wondered about that too...
Hepco & Becker carries them... spares for their Junior cases IIRC...
I farkeled both, low and tall top-case with identical barrels, hence one key for both...

 

[Upt' North]

Nope, but I have spares of those.
It is interesting that the locks are the 'cheaper' locks that came on the short boxes.
But I've got spares for those also.
I figure this one was probably 'the last new one in captivity'.

Makes ya wonder where the hell it's been.
Glad you snapped it up at the right price.

 

[Uncle Phil]

Makes ya wonder where the hell it's been.
Glad you snapped it up at the right price.

They were real pricey on it at first - over $700 - so I just waited until they decided to drop the price.
Been sitting on a shelf somewhere for a real long time.
IIRC, the model year was 1999.

 

[SMSW]

Been sitting on a shelf somewhere for a real long time.

So it came with NOD - new old dust from sitting around...
Sounds like a great buy! Merry Christmas to you.

 

[Cogmeister]

Don't know what it is but it's blue and ST1100??

Motorcycle Clearance – Page 7 – lings-hondaparts (hondaspareparts.co.uk)

 

[Firstpeke]

Nice find Phil.....

I still miss my blue ST1100..... rest in pieces...

 

[Uncle Phil]

Nice find Phil.....

I still miss my blue ST1100..... rest in pieces...

It doesn't appear to be 'that' blue which is what I found interesting about the color - cause I remember your ST1100!

 

[Uncle Phil]

Don't know what it is but it's blue and ST1100??

Motorcycle Clearance – Page 7 – lings-hondaparts (hondaspareparts.co.uk)

I call those a side cover - lives between the upper and lower fairing on each side.
But that's the color - Lapis Blue!

 

[Firstpeke]

That was "Bluesteel".... which met an untimely demise....

Bought with only 6900 miles on it and in showroom condition, literally AS new at nine years old.....

After two years and 20,000 miles I foundered on ice up in the north east of Scotland and ended up down a bank off the road having heard the bike destroy itself in some mechanical gymnastics as it made its way down the embankment, in what must have been close company with myself.
There were no undamaged panels on the bike, never found the screen, one pannier was destroyed, the other badly damaged, the Hondaline topbox was damaged but still attached.

I suffered a fair bit of damage which still causes pain in some parts.... but that was a keeper, until it wasn't.....

The only consolation was that the market value was more than I paid for it so after excess (deductable) I got back what I paid.....

Still miss it though.

They say that any accident you can walk away from is a good one, so this one qualified as a bad one as I couldn't...