Honda VTR1000 Review of a special version

[nzspokes]

Owners and those that like VTRs may find this interesting.

This bike now sits in Moriwakis museum but no longer runs. Parts from it were robbed to get one of the other race bikes back going.

[AllanB]

I comes with it's own 'chase' fuel tanker

[nzspokes]

I comes with it's own 'chase' fuel tanker

Its got a Ram Air tank but I think that one is a Harris tank so 24L.

Yeah they like a drink but way over jetted stock. I now get 200ks to the RLOD. Its only a 16l tank.

[AllanB]

Km's per tank like that don't worry me much - I don't tour enough or use it as a daily ride. If you are getting 200kms of hooning fun on your VTR then you'll be ready for a break anyway and on a buzz. What's that - $30 odd bucks for a tankful of fun? Bloody cheap in my book.

I pretty much always think that when I fill up after a ride - what a cheap way to spend a afternoon/morning. OK I am forgetting the original purchase, consumables etc but you can add that shit to everything you enjoy - enjoy a smoke? add in the future doctors bills.... drink? Golf? etc etc

Shame Honda do not still offer a decent big bore sporting V2. I find it interesting how engine configurations go in and out of fashion with some of the makers. Triples are in presently - Triumph, MV, Yamaha, waiting on Suzuki to enter the game (citing the 2 stroke triple heritage of course). Shit Kawasaki could do the same and supercharge one!

[nzspokes]

Km's per tank like that don't worry me much - I don't tour enough or use it as a daily ride. If you are getting 200kms of hooning fun on your VTR then you'll be ready for a break anyway and on a buzz. What's that - $30 odd bucks for a tankful of fun? Bloody cheap in my book.

I pretty much always think that when I fill up after a ride - what a cheap way to spend a afternoon/morning. OK I am forgetting the original purchase, consumables etc but you can add that shit to everything you enjoy - enjoy a smoke? add in the future doctors bills.... drink? Golf? etc etc

Shame Honda do not still offer a decent big bore sporting V2. I find it interesting how engine configurations go in and out of fashion with some of the makers. Triples are in presently - Triumph, MV, Yamaha, waiting on Suzuki to enter the game (citing the 2 stroke triple heritage of course). Shit Kawasaki could do the same and supercharge one!

To me the VTR is all about the mid range out of a turn. If they had injected it with the same multi point system as the SP2 it would have been one hell of a bike.

A lot of decent litre bikes and even GSXR750s will kill it on a straight. Hell even my old Hornet 900 would. But out of a mid speed turn its a quick bike. And it feels alive.

Ive not ridden a triple. Maybe one day I will have a go.

Very much agree on the cheap side of it. Even throwing in a decent coffee or sammy its still cheap.

But in saying that, I know where a set of Stage 2 Mori headers and sump are and also where some JP high comp pistons.....

[5150]

If they had injected it with the same multi point system as the SP2 it would have been one hell of a bike.

Didn't the last model before they discontinued the VTR came out with FI? or was it only SP1 and SP2 that came out injected?

[nzspokes]

Didn't the last model before they discontinued the VTR came out with FI? or was it only SP1 and SP2 that came out injected?

Nah they stayed carbed. Was the Sp models that were injected. The Vandero was injected in the later models which is a detuned version of the vtr motor.

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