07-18-2015, 01:39 AM
I remember someone here had non-praise for the SuperHawk a while back.
I was surprised because time was when I really wanted one of these (but I got a BlackBird instead):
"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.
"
http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread....=superhawk
I was surprised because time was when I really wanted one of these (but I got a BlackBird instead):
"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.
"
http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread....=superhawk