Not so old a Honda but haven't seen one for ages

[AllanB]

Nah - that Beemer is just caught in a strong had wind which has lifted the front.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Everybody knows shafties can't wheelie


Looks like nobody told Troy Corser that though

LOL: a priceless bit of racebike history too.

Good.

[rastuscat]

Everybody knows shafties can't wheelie



Looks like nobody told Troy Corser that though

They have photo shopped out the line to the helicopter lifting the front wheel

[ellipsis]

...i couldn't keep the front down on an XV750 i had, when the wind blew hard...

[cheshirecat]

The VF750F was the one that had the cam issues. the problem was insufficient oil feed. It was fixed in the later V4's.

I personally would quite like a VF500F if I could find a tidy one.

Had a VF500 and ended up despatch riding it in London poor thing. Only found out after buying the VF series had cam problems but a guy at Snetterton track trained riders on them and said all you had to do was change oil frequently and warm them up properly, ie riding asap gently until temp gauge moved. Did over 140,000 k on it in London winter and summer and it never let me down, ran like a Swiss watch. Was quick and agile too. Sad to see it go but have a VFR750 now and don't really want to ride anything else, well except a '74 750 MV, a Laverda triple and . . . .

[pritch]

You guys have better eyesight than me, I thought it was a couple of years earlier that that. So why was it they went to gear driven cams again?

The F model had chain driven cams, the R model had gear driven cams. The VFR750 had gear driven cams as well for many years. Dunno when they changed to chain, late 90s?

[manxkiwi]

The F model had chain driven cams, the R model had gear driven cams. The VFR750 had gear driven cams as well for many years. Dunno when they changed to chain, late 90s?

And it was the FII Bol d'Or that Geoff Johnson won the production TT on (in 1986/7?). Not the R as some people mistakenly think.

[pritch]

And it was the FII Bol d'Or that Geoff Johnson won the production TT on (in 1986/7?).

That stirred something in the dusty way-back part of the brain. In 1984 my home boys Alan DeLatour and Dave Martin won the Castrol Six Hour on a VFR1000F.

[merv]

That stirred something in the dusty way-back part of the brain. In 1984 my home boys Alan DeLatour and Dave Martin won the Castrol Six Hour on a VFR1000F.

That was the VF1000F not a VFR. Previous year 1983 DeLatour was on the VF750F and blitzed away out front until the first pit stop then it all turned to custard.

1984 VF1000F Alan and Dave rode looked something like this

[merv]

The VFR750 had gear driven cams as well for many years. Dunno when they changed to chain, late 90s?

Changed back to chains with the 2002 VFR800 when vtec got fitted. Us real VFR guys wouldn't buy one of those.