"MAT-B CLUB" is the Owner's Club of HONDA CBR1100XX SuperBlackBird Which HONDA's Flagship Motorcycle in Japan scince 1996. ("MAT-B" is the development code of CBR1100XX (initial model=Cabrator model)) This club is aimed at making the place which aims at improvement in an understanding solution of this motorbike, and friendship between owner. In 1996, MAT-B Owner's Club was founded by cooperation of a Japanese Motercycle magazine "Young Machine". But scine 1998, there is no relation with "Young Machine". Our club is the nonprofit organization, managing by the volunteers in a member.

[Activity outline] Activity of our club applies to a touring club fundamentally. We ride on a Superblackbird and go to all of Japan and enjoy a touring. And we also enjoy a sport-rding in the winding road in the mountain. Morever we enjoy good foods in a every place, enjoy a hot spring (spa), and we promote friendship with drinking in inn. We often hold the MAT-B Club's meeting of a day's trip. And we go a long touring ( 2 days,3 days, or more) several times in a year. We have hold inspection of the Honda's Hamamatsu factory (where SuperBlackBirds were build) twice. And we have a once invitation of participate in Honda's oficial event where held in Tochigi probing ceneter in 1998.

[Admission qualification]

1. You should be a owner of CBR1100XX SuperBlackBird.

2. You should have a Common Sense and Good Sense as Member of Society.

3. You could read a road map. (Do navigation yourself)

4. You could must recognize Japanese.

There is many Big-machine beginners in our club. Not only beginners but also veterans, we welcome admission to our club.

"MAT-B Michinoku" is the the pet name of MAT-B Tohoku Branch. The "Tohoku district" is called "Michinoku". Since the touch pronounced with "Michinoku" is good, we are calling myself "MAT-B Michinoku". (^_^�U

"Michinoku" is long and slender (LAT.N41.48'-N36.48', LON.E142.04' -139.32'), the east faces the Pacific Ocean and west faces the Sea of Japan, and in north faces the Tsugaru strait. Area is 16.9% of 2 63,983km 2 and the total area of Japan of 377,855km.
However, population is 9,840,000 persons of 7.8% of the 126,490,000 total population of Japan.

It is "large and a few population"="country and a pastoral."

But for motorcycle riding, it is very good environment.
Though You live in the city part,You can come out in a suburb with slight time.
The Tohoku district has few plains and is many mountainous. The center of the Tohoku district there is the Oou mountain range, and in the east the Kitakami high ground and Abukuma high ground, in the west Dewa high ground and asahi high ground, and in the south Iitoyo high ground and Echigo mountain range . There is little people, there is little traffic.

Although a city part also has traffic jam of course, if You went to the country, You have no traffic jam in the daytime of a holiday.

The housing situation is blessed compared with the metropolitan area. There are also many people of "putting the motorbike into the garage" and "putting the motorbike into a barn." Because the motorbike is put into the barn together with farm machines, it is the country feature.

Since it is a large area, the difference of the season in the same area cannot be disregarded, either. The same Fukushima within the prefecture also has the Fukushima southern part Pacific Ocean side where it hardly snows, and there is also an Aizu district where much snow falls.

The time of cherry blossom viewing of a cherry tree also has a cherry tree festival in Fukushima and Miyagi in mid-April, and a golden week. The seasonal time lag of Iwate or Aomori is also large.

It becomes impossible to ride on a motorcycle during winter, in order that, as for "filling and going away", it may snow like the district by the side of Hokkaido or the Sea of Japan or a road surface may freeze. So, the motorbike season for me is from April by November, eight months, for example.

Although there will also be a warm day occasionally even cause of warming, in January in recent years, since the road surface is still frozen in the shade, I cannot ride on a motorcycle.
The part and the rider of "Michinoku" who cannot ride on a motorcycle during winter are looking forward to spring. Here, most of a plum and a cherry tree blooms at once.
In "Michinoku", Spring comes rapidly.

Data of each prefecture of "MICHINOKU"

Prefecture	Area(km2)	Ranking of Japan	Population	Ranking of Japan	Density (/km2)	Ranking of Japan
Aomori	9,234	8	1,478,000	28	160	41
Iwate	15,278	2	1,416,000	30	93	46
Akita	11,434	5	1,201,000	35	105	45
Miyagi	6,861	17	2,355,000	15	343	18
Yamagata	7,394	12	1,253,000	33	169	40
Fukushima	13,782	3	2,137,000	17	155	42
Hokkaido	83,452	1	5,700,000	7	68	47
Tokyo	2,102	45	11,830,000	1	5,628	1
Kanagawa	2,415	43	8,392,000	3	3,475	3

Data of 1998 fiscal year of the Statistics Center,
Statistics Bureau of the Management and Coordination Agency, (www.stat.go.jp)

Other Prefectures were also carried for comparison.
There are 47 prefectures in Japan.
Hokkaido is the partner of a joint meeting.
Since it is the land of Japan 1 whatever Tokyo may be called.
Kanagawa is the place once I had been in. (^_^. �U