>>28522200
According to some boomer forum lore I read, the engineering team at Honda that designed this engine initially intended it for a car that never made it to production, but when Honda Europe asked for an 'exotic, sporty' tourer alternative to Goldwing it ended up in the ST1100. Honestly I believe it. Every single part of this bike is hilariously overbuilt and I love it. Power/weight minmaxing weenies know not the soul of such a sturdy displacepig.

I saved this one from the scrapyard with over 70k miles on it based on the title, probably more but the original odo is long gone along with all the fairings. Been slowly rebuilding it into some sort of monstrous naked with a mishmash of 80s/90s Honda parts.