Yeah, that sounds like a good story - tell me that one.Originally Posted by wbks
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Yeah, that sounds like a good story - tell me that one.
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
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Godamn I wish I had a story that cool. I'll try to remember some funny story and bleed it out on a NZ wide public forum for all to read
Besides, if that actually happened I would never post about it. Imagine katman!
FORCE V4
I'd give my left nut for them to put the RVF/VFR 750 and 400 into production again. Literally.... . Wow imagine if there was some special honda 20 years anniversary re-release of the NC30/RC30, all updated injection, aesthetics, (not to say that an NC30 doesn't look the bomb already) tweaked V4. I'd fall over backwards just reading the news.
It's a dream, updated re-released RC30/36. Oh my god, the V4 goodness, PLEASE HONDA!! I'm your biggest fan!
...Full throttle till you see god, then brake.
Wearing Hi-Viz Black.
It would be quite pleasing to see something resembling a V4 400cc machine released again. There must be a market for it.
However I fear the Vifferman/Oracle is correct. Honda do not care in the slightest, about their 2-wheeled customers. They have forgotten their roots and concentrated on their caged, eco-friendly, tree-hugging customers who desire a shopping trolley that cleans the air and removes pollution as it motors along.
Enter :spudwhat: emoticon here...
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Well from what I hear, honda riders dont need balls anyho... So whats so good about the square fouuuuur?
btw why do you say honda dont care about bikers?
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We know, but aren't telling.
Once you get your pink handbag though...
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the wide torque spread and ferrocious shriek from its high redline...I wonder what a two stroke v4 is likeTHink I might get one when i get my full. as for the handbag...I figure you already have enough for the both of us, huny!
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A v4 don't have that high a red line?
no higher than its 400cc inline 4 friends anyway...
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well while we all dream of rc30 rereleases and RC211 V5's and new v4's i shall continue the trend and suggest that honda release a road going version of the NSR500. Not the shitty privateer version but the full v4 2 stroke monster.
I can see it now all kitted in repsol colors with a thumb operated brake lever for true athenticity - gotta be the doohan version. highside heaven in v4 goodness.
ahhhhh and i see the death toll rapidly spike. ohhh if only.
but alas, i dream too much. We will get a uglier vfr800 with a bigger, heavier motor - with all the grace and speed of a sumo wrestler. in fact im sure when its released honda will state that it was inspired by a sumo wrestler.
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Thump operated brake lever? Doohan version? What was so special of micks? Tell me more lostinflyz! Actually the v5 and NSR500 would be sick. I would do a lot to get the 500. Their bikes atm are less apealing then an 84 rz500 to me. That says something about how bland the hondas are seeming now.
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Compared to a 600
Geriatric hoon
There's truth in that.
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old doohan after screwing his leg up and all that back in what 93?? when he came back his leg was too stuffed to operate the rear brake so they made up a thumb brake lever on the clutch lever side of the handle bars. so you use your left hand thumb to use the rear brake.
lots of controversy of its use and everyone thinking it too easy to modulate the rear brake,
you want a mick doohan replica cause he was the man on a 500.
but anyway your right the current vfr is currently not an overtly appealing beast - but not all that many current bikes are. id prob still buy one if i had a 90 bike garage. actually i wanted one for a while but my tastes have upgraded.
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The reason being that those bikes were so fucking dangerous they often crippled riders and doohan was known at one point to not even have a working leg to press the brake pedal, therefore they made a hand button brake- a token to the bravery of these men that tackled those monstrous machines basically.
edit: lol damn you got in before me!
yes we need to bring back the 500cc 2 strokes so we can seperate these traction control,wrist pointing stoner boys frm the real men...
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Interesting! I knew he was the man on a 500 judging from his 5 titles but didn't know anything about him otherwise. Surprised I hadn't heard it untill now. As for the brake, I'm pretty sure someone in NZ with a fake leg had the same and attracted a bit of pissed off attention, too, for the thumb brake... I would think using a small thumb sized thingy would be harder to crontrol then a big lever without locking it up. Anyhow. The whole bringing back dead bikes thing is pointless. I could say bring back the zx7rr and the 636 and a roadgoing gamma but would never happen. So I have a feeling the new v4 from honda will gay up everything that made it great in the first place. Yes, no?
Edit: tradme: I duno, guys like kato who pretty much were in the running to be where stoner is now seemed to handle those 500s pretty well. edit 2: just thought about how stupid it was to include KATO of all people in a statement of how they handled a bike well.......it was a 211 at the time though...so....
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