09-10-2023, 07:18 PM
Rode a few hundred km yesterday in 1) thick fog 2) glorious sunshine and then 3) pouring rain - what a day?
One of my associates was riding a special edition Gen 5 VFR800. The first to go fuel injected but still gear driven and no VTEC or CAT. The new 800 was a homologated version of the race spec RC45, not just a bored out VFR750. What a bike, the 78 year old rider lavishing praise on its still superb handling.
I did a little research into VTEC and did you know Honda had an early iteration as far back as 1983 with the Honda CBR400 (NC17)?
"These CBR400 motorcycles were powered by a 399 cc 16-valve air-cooled DOHC engine with a rotational speed valve stop mechanism called REV that changed the valves that opened from two to four at 8500 rpm — an early version of VTEC."
One of my associates was riding a special edition Gen 5 VFR800. The first to go fuel injected but still gear driven and no VTEC or CAT. The new 800 was a homologated version of the race spec RC45, not just a bored out VFR750. What a bike, the 78 year old rider lavishing praise on its still superb handling.
I did a little research into VTEC and did you know Honda had an early iteration as far back as 1983 with the Honda CBR400 (NC17)?
"These CBR400 motorcycles were powered by a 399 cc 16-valve air-cooled DOHC engine with a rotational speed valve stop mechanism called REV that changed the valves that opened from two to four at 8500 rpm — an early version of VTEC."