Want a V-Twin

[Elysium]

Looks like my next bike may well be a VFR800. Honest - I have had 5 bikes but never a Honda and never a 4 cyl, and I like to try something new. Not that I am keen on changing bikes now, but if I see a VFR at a dealers I will try for a test ride.

Haven't ridden one yet, but know someone who owns one and from what people have told me they're bloody good bikes. They're very good for touring and at the same time have street appeal, down to the "Ducati" like single swingarm.

But anyway all this talk of Ducati is sure heating up! I aint going to buy a Ducati because a. too expensive to buy (for me that is) b. you have to go to a official Ducati dealer to have work done and there aint many Ducati dealers around, none here in Palmy and closest is Lower Hutt.

No, no I'm going to wait patiently for my bike to either sell on trademe or find a bike locally and trade up. At the moment seems every man and his dog are trying to flog off their bike but no one bidding.

[pritch]

N.E. Weigh, the sound has little to do with the V4ness - it's about the cam drive.

Eh?

I don't think the cam chain is what's making the music that escapes the Arrow cans...

[vifferman]

They're very good for touring and at the same time have street appeal, down to the "Ducati" like single swingarm.

Say what?!?
Didja know that the VFR had a single-sided swingarm well before Ducati copied it? Unfortunately, because Elf Racing developed it for Honda, Honda was tied in to some sort of licencing contract forever, so the swingarms are almost universally UGLY compared to the much prettier versions made by Triumph, MV, Ducati, and anyone else that can cobble one together.

Eh?

I don't think the cam chain is what's making the music that escapes the Arrow cans...

I was saying this in reference to Radar saying he didn't like the sounds of V4s - that they sounded like a blender. Obviously, he was referring to the horrendously loud cam drive noise of the 1998-2001 VFR800s, rather than the sound of a V4 sans mufflers, or fitted with Arrows, Remus, Termignonis, Leo Vinces, or any of the other mufflers that give it that lovely flat drone that everyone seems to think Yamaha invented with the new R1.

[Elysium]

Say what?!?
Didja know that the VFR had a single-sided swingarm well before Ducati copied it? Unfortunately, because Elf Racing developed it for Honda, Honda was tied in to some sort of licencing contract forever, so the swingarms are almost universally UGLY compared to the much prettier versions made by Triumph, MV, Ducati, and anyone else that can cobble one together.


I was saying this in reference to Radar saying he didn't like the sounds of V4s - that they sounded like a blender. Obviously, he was referring to the horrendously loud cam drive noise of the 1998-2001 VFR800s, rather than the sound of a V4 sans mufflers, or fitted with Arrows, Remus, Termignonis, Leo Vinces, or any of the other mufflers that give it that lovely flat drone that everyone seems to think Yamaha invented with the new R1.

Funny enough I was in City Honda today talking to the workshop and some guy was testing out the latest VFR with, Micron pipes I think, and boy you almost think it's a V-Twin from a distance when at good speed but quiet like a inline 4 and at speeds. Not hard to see why they'e very popular.

[Hitcher]

Obviously, he was referring to the horrendously loud cam drive noise of the 1998-2001 VFR800s

And the ST1300.