02-11-2023, 01:23 AM
I am still waiting for Honda to build my next bike. I love my 1998 VFR800 (it's the best bike I have ever owned, including my CB1100), but I would like like a VFR1000. I would like a VFR1000 that is of similar weight and size to my VFR800, but with about 50 or 60 more horsepower. It would have to have gear-driven cams, like my 1998, and NOT V-TECH, like my 2002 VFR800. Keep the anti-lock brakes, but get rid of the linked braking system (I have never really found it useful).
I waited with cash in my hand to purchase the Honda VFR1200 (does anyone remember the teaser videos Honda released months before the actual release?), but my heart sank the first time I saw an actual picture of it. I thought at that time the looks might grow on me, eventually, and a superbly performing motorcycle would make up for poor looks. I gave this motorcycle every opportunity to win me over, but this never happened. I purchased every magazine I could find that published any information concerning the new VFR1200, but I never really found anything but mediocre and average, to below-average reviews. If you remember, the VFR750 and VFR800 won multiple Motorcycle of the Year awards and always received rave reviews from almost all motorcycle publications. I wasn't surprised to see two-year-old, brand-new, unsold VFR1200's sitting around on dealer floors.
If Honda never builds my dream bike then maybe I'll eventually be forced to buy something else. But in the mean time, I am happy with my CB1100 and my VFR800, two bikes I will never part with.
I waited with cash in my hand to purchase the Honda VFR1200 (does anyone remember the teaser videos Honda released months before the actual release?), but my heart sank the first time I saw an actual picture of it. I thought at that time the looks might grow on me, eventually, and a superbly performing motorcycle would make up for poor looks. I gave this motorcycle every opportunity to win me over, but this never happened. I purchased every magazine I could find that published any information concerning the new VFR1200, but I never really found anything but mediocre and average, to below-average reviews. If you remember, the VFR750 and VFR800 won multiple Motorcycle of the Year awards and always received rave reviews from almost all motorcycle publications. I wasn't surprised to see two-year-old, brand-new, unsold VFR1200's sitting around on dealer floors.
If Honda never builds my dream bike then maybe I'll eventually be forced to buy something else. But in the mean time, I am happy with my CB1100 and my VFR800, two bikes I will never part with.