02-07-2014, 03:28 PM
1998 Honda VTR1000F Superhawk.
Fun bike, fast bike, beautiful bike, but fatally flawed because Honda decided that instead of a dedicated cylinder block, they'd simply bore the cylinders into the top half of the squishy aluminum crankcase, then add a rinky-dink later of electroplating that wore out after only 50,000 miles.
It was a wheelie monster, but that was because of the rearward weight bias, and because it was colossally undergeared.
Limp, squishy brakes, laughable fuel economy, a noisy lump of an engine, and I haven't been interested in any Honda bike since that POS, but still I love looking at the old pictures of her.
Fun bike, fast bike, beautiful bike, but fatally flawed because Honda decided that instead of a dedicated cylinder block, they'd simply bore the cylinders into the top half of the squishy aluminum crankcase, then add a rinky-dink later of electroplating that wore out after only 50,000 miles.
It was a wheelie monster, but that was because of the rearward weight bias, and because it was colossally undergeared.
Limp, squishy brakes, laughable fuel economy, a noisy lump of an engine, and I haven't been interested in any Honda bike since that POS, but still I love looking at the old pictures of her.