Intrepid wrote:Chumly wrote:I have a 2004 Honda VFR ABS. Yes ABS on a bike.
Several years ago, Honda was interested in how the VFR would fare as a racing bike. My son was a motorcycle racer at the time and they gave him a bike to run at the track for testing purposes.
He gave it quite the ride, but the darn thing is to big for a proper race bike. We took the pickup out to the corner where he ultimately crashed it and threw the pieces in the back. He literally took the VFR back to them in a bag.
He was a champion in 600, 750 and Superbike however.
It's essentially been relegated to a sport tourer for many, many years now.
It's been donkey years since some considered it a front line sport bike (if it ever really was). Why? Because even when it was *potentially* race competitive it was always intended as a "look what Honda can do technologically" sort of flagship.
Hence the Single Sided Swing Arm, and the V4 engine, and the earlier iterations with the gear driven cams (not anymore though), and now the first bike with VTEC, and one of the first with ABS, one of the first with a catalytic converter, one of the only to meet future emissions standards now, one of the few with an OEM hard bag option, and on it goes.
Does not mean I think the bike is inherently better because Honda pushes the envelope with the VFR, nor is it why I bought it.
I do all my own wrenching, sometimes all the extra tech makes for more work sometimes less work.
