Forgive me, for I have sinned!!!!

Sylvester

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I have only ridden Airheads for the last 8 years. I test rode a VFR750 for a bud who was buying it. Now I can't stop thinking about the seamless power, the brakes, the handling. What have I done? What was I thinking? Now I'm straight onto autoscout24.de and looking for one. Help me! I'm sick!:(
 
in the real world, it's a condition called "coming to your senses" :D
 
Think of the backache, the engine heat a VFR generates in town - with you sitting right above it. the low speed control and lack of finesse. the cost of sparkplugs - not to mention getting the feckers in the plug holes! chain drive and honda complexity and minimalist build quality.

does that help? :green gri
 
Ogmios said:
and this...
from a Guzzi owner. :rolleyes:

:hide :D
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yes, but i own a modern bike too ;)


....and every time i ride it, i wonder why i bother with the old stuff. sometimes the reverse is true too though :P
 
Sylvester said:
I have only ridden Airheads for the last 8 years... Help me! I'm sick!:(
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Fixed it for ya :D

No, but seriously, the VFR is a great bike, but so perfectly dull...

Just think, in all probabilty, nothing would go wrong...

And as an Airhead rider, surely you can see that there's no fun in that :pullface
 
This is my 38th bike and 3rd Airhead. I went from GSXR1100 to R100GS and thought "This is what we want". I would certainly have to change my service routine. It would take me longer to get the plastic off the VFR than it currently takes me to do a full "English" service......Mind you theres also a ZZR1100 for sale with 21,000 kilometers from new that looks like a new bike. Nah! I mean what would I do with all the spares I've accumulated? Wobble box, collector box, screens, handlebars, enough rocker cover gaskets to play cards with. Then there's all of the tooling. The house would be practically empty!!!! Maybe I should just buy another bike and have the two, problem solved.
 
Sylvester said:
I have only ridden Airheads for the last 8 years. I test rode a VFR750 for a bud who was buying it. Now I can't stop thinking about the seamless power, the brakes, the handling. What have I done? What was I thinking? Now I'm straight onto autoscout24.de and looking for one. Help me! I'm sick!:(
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You can do what I did and sin only partially.

I bought a K1200 S for commuting and kept my airhead as a project bike. I now have more seamless power than is practically useable but without the boredom of the utter reliability of a Honda!
 
Ogmios said:
Think of the backache, the engine heat a VFR generates in town - with you sitting right above it. the low speed control and lack of finesse. the cost of sparkplugs - not to mention getting the feckers in the plug holes! chain drive and honda complexity and minimalist build quality.

does that help? :green gri
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It would help more if you were talking from experience.........:rolleyes:
 
Being a Honda I bet it has those mircroscopic spark plugs as well!!!! Now looking at a ZZR1100. Experience has taught me theres nothing boring about reliability. I've owned Laverdas and Moto Guzzis. They were actually less stressful when they were broken and you knew how much the spares would be. At least the wait was over. That was a long time ago mind.
 
I had a VFR, on paper it was great, it was even fun for the first thousand miles then it became bland, boring and far to predictable.

A perfect example of the Honda brand's inbuilt blandness. Nice polite bikes, no soul:(
 
Sylvester said:
Being a Honda I bet it has those mircroscopic spark plugs as well!!!! Now looking at a ZZR1100. Experience has taught me theres nothing boring about reliability. I've owned Laverdas and Moto Guzzis. They were actually less stressful when they were broken and you knew how much the spares would be. At least the wait was over. That was a long time ago mind.
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Get a Varadero, Honda and fun...:hide
 
Only ever sold my Hondas out of boredom
only one I regretted was a stage one tuned bros 650 my first twin never looked back :D
 
Davy F said:
It would help more if you were talking from experience.........:rolleyes:
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you assume i'm not.
though i didn't own one, i had a loan of one. got to know it and then did a track day on it - which was fun. :bounce1
i stand by my comments. :P
 
Ogmios said:
you assume i'm not.
though i didn't own one, i had a loan of one. got to know it and then did a track day on it - which was fun. :bounce1
i stand by my comments. :P
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So I'm right then. :D
Having a blast on a borrowed one and tearing round a track just doesn't cut the mustard in the greater scheme of things. Living with one for months or years brings much more credibility. ;)
 
Let me see....I've had mainly Honda dirt bikes. 3 XL 185, 1 XL250, 1 XL500, 2 XR 250, 1 XR 500 oh and 1 RS250. Can't say I was bored with any of them. The 185 would have trouble out accelerating a glacier but they were fun in their own way. 100kph, rainy night, country roads and on 6 v headlights will never be boring. Except the RS and XR250s, all had drum brakes that would have trouble stopping a wheelbarrow. A far cry from the VFR. I never figured on the boredom factor, just seemed a lot of bike for the money. You couldn't honestly get a good spec mountain bike for the same cash.
 
Sylvester said:
Let me see....I've had mainly Honda dirt bikes. 3 XL 185, 1 XL250, 1 XL500, 2 XR 250, 1 XR 500 oh and 1 RS250. Can't say I was bored with any of them. The 185 would have trouble out accelerating a glacier but they were fun in their own way. 100kph, rainy night, country roads and on 6 v headlights will never be boring. Except the RS and XR250s, all had drum brakes that would have trouble stopping a wheelbarrow. A far cry from the VFR. I never figured on the boredom factor, just seemed a lot of bike for the money. You couldn't honestly get a good spec mountain bike for the same cash.
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Try a Varadero, with scorpion cans, more of a laugh than the VFR due to the Vtwin engine, it tends to do well keeping up with 1200GS too:D

And all that for a couple of grand....
 

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richie said:
Try a Varadero, with scorpion cans, more of a laugh than the VFR due to the Vtwin engine, it tends to do well keeping up with 1200GS too:D

And all that for a couple of grand....
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Feck they are ugly!! I'll try one but not convinced. If they have linked brakes and ABS defo not.
 
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