Just curious to see what other bikes people are riding besides their VFR's.
Aside from my Interceptor, I've got a Victory Vegas 8 Ball and a Vulcan 800 that is primarily the wife's, but I occasionally ride for a change. I had a Magna that was bobbed before that but reluctantly sold it a year or two ago. My little collection:
I just realized that F150 is in every one of those pics. That truck brought bikes to my home in VA from VA, PA, MD and NY. Still have that truck and it's still running strong at 196,000 miles!😄
My most recent bike is a Kawasaki Versys-X 300, that I use as a winter bike & for green lanes. Hope to take it on a tour to Spain. [image: 00C5BB34-FEE6-4733-AEDD-96E071106DAF.thumb.jpeg.6fb759ddb64170a165565acd9ba60690.jpeg]
A yellow 6th gen! You are in a pretty exclusive club.
Uhhhhh.... I might be the only member!
I found out after I bought the bike they didn't make yellow for the 6th gen. Apparently the PO repainted it. I checked the code under the seat and it was indeed supposed to be red.
Now under normal circumstances, I'd probably be mad about this being a respray, but 20 or so years ago I saw a Yellow VFR in a Honda showroom and fell in LOVE with it. I didn't have the cash then and always pined for one. The one thing I was insistent on was that if I ever got one it HAD to be YELLOW.
One day for S&G's I was browsing through cycle trader and found this one.
two days later I drove to Pennsylvania to pick it up.
A day or two after that I found out it was a respray but it was the color I wanted and there didn't appear to be any underlying damage to the the bike (It had obviously been dropped, but it wasn't crashed) I did all the general maintenance you would normally do with an older used bike (Chain and sprockets, fluids, went back to a stock exhaust from open pipes I'm doing brake pads this summer) and have been as happy as a clam since. Such a fantastic machine!
I found out after I bought the bike they didn't make yellow for the 6th gen. Apparently the PO repainted it. I checked the code under the seat and it was indeed supposed to be red.
Now under normal circumstances, I'd probably be mad about this being a respray, but 20 or so years ago I saw a Yellow VFR in a Honda showroom and fell in LOVE with it. I didn't have the cash then and always pined for one. The one thing I was insistent on was that if I ever got one it HAD to be YELLOW.
One day for S&G's I was browsing through cycle trader and found this one. two days later I drove to Pennsylvania to pick it up. A day or two after that I found out it was a respray but it was the color I wanted and there didn't appear to be any underlying damage to the the bike (It had obviously been dropped, but it wasn't crashed) I did all the general maintenance you would normally do with an older used bike (Chain and sprockets, fluids, went back to a stock exhaust from open pipes I'm doing brake pads this summer) and have been as happy as a clam since. Such a fantastic machine!
I’ve seen two. Yours may be one of the two or a third. I can’t remember who had them but both were seen at TMac years ago.
My newly acquired vfr 750 F 1997, which I'm planning on streetfightering this winter. And my customized, heavily modded and painted kawasaki zx6r 2006[image: eda3cc0a5fa566000baa26257ada87f7.jpg][image: a2226d85060a713213dcaa21c2d304a9.jpg]
Thanks! A big improvement over the lime green original color [image: emoji1.png] You can't even see the real shine which pops with the metal flakes in the sun, in the pictures. It's called Petronas evergreen, a Mercedes Benz color, I don't know what they have actually used the color for, but I think I saw it on the side of the formula 1 Mercedes car, as a stripe...
It is in pretty good condition, 82k km (51k miles), some minor scuffs and cracks in right side fairing from a very low speed drop. Last owner was a colleague of mine who bought a brand new Honda cb500xa and just wanted to get rid of it, practically throwing it after me. He did most of the maintenance very recently, so the bike is in good shape mechanically as well.
Allready started ordering parts, bought a full tyga performance exhaust for it among other things. [image: emoji16.png]
I like sport touring and travelling, so after having a Honda ST1300, Goldwing and two FJR's, as I get older I was looking for a decent sport tourer that was 150 lbs. lighter and still very capable.... so I found this 2009 CBF1000A. Here it is on a trip last year to Ohio. The US did not get this bike, had the identical smaller engined CBF600. Clocks in at 525 lbs., ergos similar to an FJR, but the CBF1000 is my fave and I wouldn't hesitate to take it anywhere. Handles great, goes where you point it, smoothest powertrain ever at any rpm. These can be had here low milers and toy money pricing. Outstanding bike, really.
Always wanted a VFR800 5th Gen, so picked up this one with 109k kms (65k miles), and spent last winter stripping it down and cleaning it up. Price was right. Had a Magna restoration project back in the day, fell in love with the V4's. The VFR will be more of a twisty rider for when I go to the good stuff, if I want to, I'll just put both on a trailer and go. Not intending to put bags on it. This pic the day I brought it home, will have to get some more pics later.
White 2012 Yamaha Roadstar Silverado S with 35k on it. Traded an '18 Mt 07 for the red VFR.
Have to keep a comfortable cruiser for longer jaunts. To think of the VFR as a tourer is out of the question after my hop to the Smokies this past August
I'd shopped for both those bikes, plus test rode a very nice 2016 R12R at the same dealer shop the where I bought this late last month. I started researching the R nineT (aka R9T) 2-3 weeks before deciding it was the bike I probably wanted. My test ride helped me make the decision to buy this. The Pure is what I'd call the base model of the R9T lineup, and has the same air/oil-cooled engine as the last generation of the R1200R before they started putting the water-cooled engine in it.
I still like the R1200R, and I may end up with one someday, but for this bike I wanted something with more character and a bit more edge. The newer R12Rs are really nice, but maybe more refined than I wanted this time around. I wanted something simpler, still kind of sporty, and which I could easily mod to my liking. I also really love the looks of my new Pure.
what happened to the tail ? looks like it was chopped off with an axe, not aesthetically pleasing at all.
No, it isn't. Not many people ride this bike 2-up, so I think the pillion seat was an afterthought.
As for the rear taillight/turn signal assembly, some owners do the tail tidy, and while it looks cool I've never been a fan of tail tidies. Most of the ones I've seen on the R9T forum I'm on are very minimalist and look like the taillight and turn signals are very hard to see to motorists behind you, and that makes no sense to me.
Instead, one of my mods will be a rear luggage rack (in black), which will extend over the rear fender/taillight assembly, but not far above it, so the rear assembly doesn't look like it's sticking way out there like that. I was planning to add the rack anyway, but it will serve a nice cosmetic purpose, too. 😉
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