VFR1200 <gulp>

it weights to much to be a sports bike?

Dunno - I'm sure weight won't be much of an issue. I rarely find it is
on road bikes. The 230kg VFR750 I rode in Switzerland et al felt pretty
nimble to me.

It's more about the styling, features and target market. I expect it's
more profitable to pitch "GP technology" to the people who buy VFRs.

Must be very difficult to compete in the 1000cc superbike class when
every manufacturer wants a piece of it. 1200cc V5 super-sports-tourer
however; that's a class of its own!

I find Honda's approach interesting. The rival manufacturers seem to
put their "best effort", most fashionable technology into 1000cc bikes.
Honda seems to be playing it a bit smarter.

All they need to do is put a fucking decent, robust rectifier into the
bloody thing ;-\ Rah.

Jules

 

gawd, its ugly!

 

go away you...be gone!!

 

The heaviest Diablo (6.0 VT) weighs in at approx. 1730 kgs, and the lightest one (SE30) at approx
1512 kgs.

That would be *under* 2 tonnes, and is even under 2 tons as well! ;-)

 

I think you've narrowed it a touch far, if you call it the multi
cylinder super-sports-tourer then you fall squarely against the ZX12,
Hayabuse and the new VFR replacing the CBR11 which was a little out of
it's league in this company - same as the 929 was against the R1 and
GSXR1000.

I think Honda worked out they couldn't keep giving away displacement and
expect to win the magazine reviews when the reviewers tend to take
everything to a racetrack.

JL
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An artist's impression of what it will look like I think. It just looks like
an morph of the current CBR1100 and VFR800.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

How much is that in US gallons?

Postman Pat