Honda VFR revealed in new motorcycle patent

As for a modern VFR 1000, (See my avitar Bike list).

but Everything most of you described is "WHY" I bought the '06 Triumph Sprint ST, although it's not a V-4, it does have a awsome engine note.

It was what I wanted Honda to do for years & wouldn't, & since I own both, I can make these comparisons.

Honda VFR
800 cc
108 hp
SSSA-Yes
Motor-V-4
under tail exhaust
Hard bags-additional cost
handles well
brakes linked, option linked ABS
Great gas milage
Reliable
Good looks

Triumph Sprint ST
1050cc
138HP
SSSA-yes
Motor-Inline 3
Undertail exhaust
hard bags come with purchase
handles well
Brakes: Non-Linked (thank God !) Non-linked ABS option
Great gas milage
reliable
great looks

So basically the same wth the differences of Engine config, decplacement, brakes, & HP as to what I wanted & waited for for years from Honda & didn't get.

Now since I have the Sprint, Suped up VFR, & a '04 VFR, the only thing for Honda to do is make a Sportbike/Superbike V-4 900/1000 or RC61 V-2, to bring me back !

Started looking at Jays picture and found the french web site where this picture originated, took me 30 minutes to learn how to make my computer translate french and the translation is a little rough but I thought this was interesting...



Honda VFR 1000
VFR 1000: the return to the roots

What can one reproach the VFR 800 V-tec well? Certainly not its rigour. Then, for 2008, Honda could approach the original spirit of its motor bike launched in 1998 and reinforce the links which then linked it with the competition.

Honda VFR 1000

Admittedly, the last years saw the reinforced road qualities and the performances of the VFR. The last evolution of the motor bike, which embarks variable distribution V-tec and ABS since 2001, is not made to dominate the comparative ones and to attract comments praising the rigour of its design. And it is justified: the VFR, except a lack of imagination to control, does not deserve that praises so much the homogeneity of its behavior is obvious. Then, to approach its initial spirit today, Honda could reposition its motor bike towards more sportivity. Wasn't the VFR in other time a cousin close to the RC 30 and another RC 45, which has to offer her 4-cyclindres out of V before disappearing? Yes, the VFR over the years is more geared toward touring and not involved in the sporting crenel, leaving this noble task to the CBR 1000 RR.

Without anything to change with the bases of its motor bike, Honda could thus soon reveal a mounting whose V4, more generous of cubic capacity, would propose an exploitation definitely more sporting. One questions oneself then as for the utility of the variable distribution, more inclined to meet needs specific to the road motor bikes. One likes to imagine a machine comfortably accumulating the miles, but especially all been willing to stimulate the Egro's by the power and the neat character of his mechanics. ABS would not be quite obvious step called into question, but one would appreciate the arrival of a radial device, just like that of an entirely adjustable reversed fork. Side line, the austerity of the current model has its place with a more dynamic reinterpretation, consequently approaching the spirit inspired by the CBR 1000 RR. A return to the root's and in force.