New Honda VFR1000?
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Aasland
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Dang it!
I put 90K on a 2000 VFR, and the last two years I owned it I was drooling over the FJR (better ergo's, bags, windshield). So when I crashed and totaled the VFR on a track, I had the FJR weeks before the insurance was settled.
So ..after a year on the FJR, Honda releases the perfect VFR (assuming it is the bottom one, and avail with a normal clutch and no VTEC). Now I'm drooling over another bike again ... argh!
Better hurry and wear out the FJR ... (does crashing qualify as "wearing it out"?)
I put 90K on a 2000 VFR, and the last two years I owned it I was drooling over the FJR (better ergo's, bags, windshield). So when I crashed and totaled the VFR on a track, I had the FJR weeks before the insurance was settled.
So ..after a year on the FJR, Honda releases the perfect VFR (assuming it is the bottom one, and avail with a normal clutch and no VTEC). Now I'm drooling over another bike again ... argh!
Better hurry and wear out the FJR ... (does crashing qualify as "wearing it out"?)
madmike2
Shtirrenuppenmeister
Let me understand this....
Rather than fixing the issues they have with the ST1300 and maintaining their platform, they've decided to "pork-up" the VFR to compete with the FJR and C-14?
That should help the languishing sales of the ST. :blink:
Rather than fixing the issues they have with the ST1300 and maintaining their platform, they've decided to "pork-up" the VFR to compete with the FJR and C-14?
That should help the languishing sales of the ST. :blink:
AdrianNKY
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ROFL...that is a terrible photochop. Just terrible.
Love the fact that you can still see the midpipe off the 6th-gen undertail exhaust on there.
Is that a CBR rear end?
I came very close to buying an 06/07 VFR as a second smaller bike but sadly, it's not much smaller. I wouldn't hold your breath as Honda doesn't care about anything except the CBR and their lawn mowers. I seriously doubt the shaft would make it to the VFR. If all the rumors were remotely true the bike would be competing at a price point most likely with the FJR/GTR and unless they did something magical, I just don't see it.
Then again, what do I know? Nothing. I'm sure come September we'll be dealing with another global warming scare due to the sudden and dramatic rise in carbon dioxide levels in the air from the collective VFR community as they finally stop holding their breath.
Love the fact that you can still see the midpipe off the 6th-gen undertail exhaust on there.
Is that a CBR rear end?
I came very close to buying an 06/07 VFR as a second smaller bike but sadly, it's not much smaller. I wouldn't hold your breath as Honda doesn't care about anything except the CBR and their lawn mowers. I seriously doubt the shaft would make it to the VFR. If all the rumors were remotely true the bike would be competing at a price point most likely with the FJR/GTR and unless they did something magical, I just don't see it.
Then again, what do I know? Nothing. I'm sure come September we'll be dealing with another global warming scare due to the sudden and dramatic rise in carbon dioxide levels in the air from the collective VFR community as they finally stop holding their breath.
Warchild
Benevolent Dictator
This is just the typical horseshit photochopping that MCN is famous for..... they did the same thing with photochopping images of the "new" Blackbird every year for the past 4-5 years.
MCN is the National Enquirer of motocycle e-magazines... they aren't to be taken seriously. <_<
MCN is the National Enquirer of motocycle e-magazines... they aren't to be taken seriously. <_<
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Kevin Daly
YES I ran the fatty over!!
Well ****, I sure would like to have seen another ST on the streets
GalaxyBlue
Well-known member
That would be something i would sacrifice the FJR for... I really dig it!
airboss
Well-known member
Every time I ride the VFR I wonder why I bother to have another bike.
Every time I ride the FJR I wonder why I bother to have another bike.
IF and when this one hits the showrooms it's going to be a tough call.
Every time I ride the FJR I wonder why I bother to have another bike.
IF and when this one hits the showrooms it's going to be a tough call.
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I hear ya. But I know why I have both:
The VFR is for riding 1 up.
The FJR is for 2-up use.
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If I never rode with a pillion, I'm not sure that I would have (or keep) my FJR.
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ionbeam
2 FUN
I wanted a sport bike, my wife wanted a Gold Wing. After trying the available ST bikes (in 2003) Good Wife says, "I like the FJR!" She has been riding pillion for nearly all of the 43k miles on the bike. If she were to no longer ride with me I would seriously consider replacing the FJR with something aimed at a different mission.
Aasland
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What it came down to for me, is where I do most of my riding.
When I lived in Oregon, the VFR was perfect: Temperate weather, few long sections of interstate to be endured, and didn't have to ride overnighters to get to scenery so less stuff to carry.
But now .. in MN .. weather is extreme, and I am on the wrong side of the Dakota's (or IN/IL/OH depending on which direction I look). I have to ride for multiple days to get to any mountains, and thus must carry junk. That makes the FJR is a better bike for me in MN.
To be fair, with my set of Givi E36 side bags and a Givi trunk on the back, I can carry about the same amount of junk on the VFR, more than any real man should ever need. But the extra 500cc of giddy-up does allow the Feejer to play the role of "Pack Mule" with more aplomb.
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