Honda V4 2010

[airplane]

Take as look at these spy photos of the forthcoming new Honda...... http://www.leftlanenews.com/honda-v4.html#more-19115

There have been years of speculation but these photos look like the real thing and that the new bike is nearly ready.

[nudemetalz]

Yo Dude,....already a thread about it in New Bike Models

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=85713

[short-circuit]

Take as look at these spy photos of the forthcoming new Honda...... http://www.leftlanenews.com/honda-v4.html#more-19115

There have been years of speculation but these photos look like the real thing and that the new bike is nearly ready.

All that anticipation and look at the state of it. Shit as.

[Muppet]

It looks bloody awful, unless they've disguised it with extra bodywork as they sometimes do.

I prefer this one minus the colour of course.

http://www.fasterandfaster.net/2008/...fficially.html

[Mort]

I like the look of the pics. Looks like they are taking the VFR to a new level. Hopefully it will be about 200kg and maybe 150bhp+. No doubt it'll have all the VTEC/ABS Traction stuff thrown at it. Some of that is good but...well you know the rest.

It'll be an awesome bike though for sure.

[xwhatsit]

Yamaha produce beautiful motorcycles, but they're either lacking in performance or bloody expensive

In New Zealand -- in Australia they are priced normally (and have a massive dealer presence), and do incredibly successfully as a result. I don't have any figures but from Road Star Warriors to R1s to YZF250s, they seem to dominate in both numbers and in the imaginations of riders.

Half of the issue here is that we don't get the interesting bikes. Look at the weird crap we used to get -- the CBR/ZXR/GSXR400s and 250s, the GB400/500, SRX400/600, all kinds of really interesting bikes that sold well and still change hands regularly today. There's still those kinds of bikes out there in Japan, all kinds of fascinating 400s (retro singles, modern twins, really neat fours like the Super Four), Yamaha's MT03 which looks like it was designed for New Zealand... I'm sure people like Banzai could chip in with countless other examples. We don't get them. Why? I'm sure Blue Wing et al have had it proved to them before they don't understand what the NZ public is interested in?

[Elysium]

Man please tell me that was only a test model to test out the perormance and engine. Where are the exhausts?

[Swoop]

Man please tell me that was only a test model to test out the perormance and engine. Where are the exhausts?

It is the large "thing" behind the right footpeg.



The '09 R1 is looking better all the time...

[pritch]

Interesting pics. A V Four sports/tourer would have appeal to some.
Well, to me for a start

[vifferman]

It's interesting how Triumph, KTM, and Harley can nail their customer profile precisely and produce a seemingly wide range of bikes from only a few base platforms, whilst the Japanese seem to be too scared to stop humping the sports bike holy grail long enough to see if their customers actually want the stuff they are producing.

Word is, Dr Jim2, that the new V4 is going to be the basis of several new bikes. It'd be very interesting if it's true, and Honda have done it in the past, with the VF750 and VF1000 also being the basis for cruisers. More recently, they have at least supposedly used CBR engines as the basis for their nekkid bikes.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I like the look of the pics. Looks like they are taking the VFR to a new level. Hopefully it will be about 200kg and maybe 150bhp+. No doubt it'll have all the VTEC/ABS Traction stuff thrown at it. Some of that is good but...well you know the rest.

It'll be an awesome bike though for sure.

given the ABS on the CBR600RR I think its a safe bet this will have all those electro-bells and whistles also.

I can't get over how expensive they are. Look at the Hornet 900: eleven grand brand spankers: the best value new motorcycle on the market when I bought one. Replacement: tricker, but probably less usable CB1000 "Predator", oh yeah, bring 20 large. Bugger that, its not value for money. This looks like 30k to me. And given the competition at both price points, this better be the best damn motorbike on the road. And they better get their machining and tolerances right so the things don't lunch themselves all the time (early VF750 (which I also owned) reference there)

[Maha]

Interesting pics. A V Four sports/tourer would have appeal to some.
Well, to me for a start

Yip me too, would like to see Repsol Colours on both these.

[vifferman]

Yip me too, would like to see Repsol Colours on both these.

How about this? (From ST-N).

[James Deuce]

Still looks like photoshopped bottom cleavage.

I heard a 2009 R1 with non-standard pipes while I was out shopping today. I "heard" a small block V8. I saw the bugeyed, whaled-jowled fairing and it took me a few seconds to put it all together. Yamaha. R1. Sounding like an early VFR750 with no baffles.

What a glorious noise.

[Swoop]

Looking at the pictures. What have they done up front to make it look so "chunky"?
The fairing is positively huge and makes it look like a svelte bike has run into a wild boar.