Member Contributer 03vfrrider Posted June 8, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 8, 2011 A 3rd gen...a beautiful white '93. Before that, an '85 VF500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Olive Posted June 8, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 8, 2011 My first bike was a Suzuki GS500F. My second bike was a BMW F800S (the F800S/ST is one of the closest competitors to the VFR according to the magazine bike comparisons.). The VFR, for a variety of reasons, is a better bike for me. And now, of course, the VFR that I am introducing to a lot more of Canada and the States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer HiDesertMLB Posted June 8, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 8, 2011 My 96 4th gen that I like every bit as much as my 6th gen, if not better. Before that, I owned a Suzuki GS500 that helped me return to riding after a 12-year hiatus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer SilverVee Posted June 8, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 8, 2011 1982 Yamaha Seca XJ650RJC (red) Canadian version, I do miss the low maintenance shaft drive. One of the few vehicles I made money on. YICS made carb balancing a little more painful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 im still on my gen5 but b4 that was a gen 4 and b4 that was a gen 3 what else is there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n1tmtu37 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 85 CB750SC Nighthawk S 81 CB750F Supersport 78 CB750F Supersport Loved them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer intercept this Posted June 8, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 8, 2011 2005 Yamaha FJR1300-didn't agree with me only owned it for 8 months 1999 Honda interceptor-best bike so far 1996 Suzuki RF600R-so so 1988 Kawasaki EX500-great bike to start with for an 18 yeay old squid bunch of dirt bikes when I was a kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer BoulderGeek Posted June 8, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 8, 2011 First bike was that well-loved classic Yamaha XJ650Rj Seca650, US model. 55,000 on that. then 1991 BMW R100 GS Paris Dakar. 52,000 <-------------------- 1993 VFR750F in pearl crystal white. Still have it, feeling separation anxiety to sell it 2004 VFR800A, just got plates for it yesterday. PC III, LeoVince Ti, Givi trunk. Hoping that I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer talldrinkofwater Posted June 8, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 8, 2011 1983 Yamaha Virago 500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer VFRwhisp Posted June 8, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 8, 2011 My first bike was a 93 Honda CB750 Nighthawk. Next came a 650 v-star ...awfull bike. I think I will have my 2003 VFR untill there's nothing left of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Terminex Posted June 8, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 8, 2011 6th gen RWB was my first bike just under 2 years ago. have since added the 08 CBR1000RR track / race bike as well as the 09 Ducati 1198. I love both of these and they get a lot more use than the VFR, but I never intend to sell my first bike. How was learning on a VFR800? I think I'd really like one but I want to get some miles under neath me on a SV650s before jumping in a VFR. It was great. It is not as easy to wheelie or break the rear loose as it is with my other bikes. The only downside is that it is much heavier. I actually liked the weight while learning as it taught me a lot about low speed handling. now when I get on my other bikes they feel weightless. The VFR is also much easier on initial turn-in than my other bikes. In camparing it to a SV650, I would guess that the power to weight ratio is comparable. (not sure about the exact specs - someone can correct me) you would be moving up to more power, but it is EASILY controllable. On the other side of the equation you would aldo be moving up greatly in bike weight. Ergonomically speaking the VFR feels more upright as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rufrydrsc2up Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 The bike before my VFR was a '95 GSXR 750. It was a dream bike of mine ever since I started riding (which happened to be the same year) that I finally bought low mileage at a steal from a friend. Then a year later, someone got it from me at a better steal, lifted it from the parking lot at my apartment in the fall of 08. Oddly enough, in Jan of this year the local PD called me and said they found my bike. Some guy got into a fight at a Waffle House and when they arrested him they ran the VIN on the bike in the back of his truck.......and it was mine. Ins had already paid out on it though, and I wasn't in a position to buy it back right now anyway. Oh well, to have loved and lost. They say never date or buy your dream cause it'll ruin it, well in this case they were wrong. Loved that bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SSRider Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Current - 05 VFR 800 ABS Past - 2005 GSXR1000 - 2004 Honda 919 - 2000 Honda Shadow ACE -1996 Kawsaki KLR 250 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer dgordon Posted June 10, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 10, 2011 Have only been able to own one at a time. Think this may be why I love VFR's so much. They also sound ace! The v-4 is so addictive. Did I say I love the sound of the V-4? Current: 07 rwb. Absolutely had to get back onto an 800 VFR. Have to say I really, really like the 6th gen. Working on being my current best bike ever! Hope to never sell Prior: 07 R1200s 01 VFR800fi Best bike I ever owned = bought new and owned for over 10 years. In a fit of insanity sold it. 90 CBR600 89 K75s 75 Norton Commando 84 Ninja 900 68 triumph 500 82 R65ls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 2001 Yamaha FZ1 in Blue and with all the farkles. I miss it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 2003 Suzuki Bandit 600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer NYMBYSS Posted June 11, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 11, 2011 1st gen vfr86 750 heavy mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer RED RUNNER Posted June 11, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 11, 2011 I'm curious what was your most recent motorcycle before buying a 6th gen VFR. I'll have my first motorcycle in five day (2006 SV650s) but I think the VFR 800 are great on paper and looks. I just need to find one to test drive. Never had a minibike growing up, but all my friends did. I begged rides on my big brother's Yamaha XT125 and my friends's Honda Z50 and Honda CT70. Even the neighborhood kids had minibikes. When I was in fifth grade my neighbor and his sister got matching YZ80s, and at that time I questioned whether I really wanted to continue to go on living. In College I needed transportation. My best friend's dad had an old CB350. He fixed it up and I bought it for a few hundred bucks. In the wintertime. He didn't tell me it had a choke and I didn't know enough to look for it. I woke the neighbors up every morning as I broke a sweat kick starting it cold. Tough lesson. Parked outside the campus housing office one day and what did I see? A pearl white VFR. I stared at it for the longest time. That, I decided, what the most beautiful bike I had ever seen. I would later have the same reaction when I saw my first Ducati PASO. Enough kick starting. Within a year I sold my CB350 to the bass player in my band (I thought I got the better end of the deal but the bike is probably worth three times what he paid for it). I bought a big boy bike -- a sleek 1982 Yamaha Vision 550. V twin and futuristic styling. Electric start. Black. I loved that bike. Parked it on the street and always looked back at it when I walked up the stairs to my front porch. You'd have thought I had left a pretty girl sitting on it. It was the fanciest thing I had ever owned. One afternoon I heard a clatter outside. For some reason I thought the noise sounded like a baby buggy falling down stairs, and then I thought, "Wait a minute. There aren't any babies in this neighborhood...MY BIKE!" My neighbor had backed into it. Dented the tank. No more fancy. Took the insurance money and vowed I'd fix it. Spent the money and rode the wheels off the bike. Top Gun had come out in 1986. Tom Cruise rode a Ninja. It seemed dangerous and extravagant. I wanted one but I was broke. My girlfriend, however, wasn't. She needed a car, so we struck a deal: buy me a bike and I'll let you use my truck. The deal was struck and for the next years rode it from Los Angeles to Santa Cruz California every other week to visit her. I rode it on roads with water up to my axles because I had to get to work. I road it in the freezing cold. Silver, with red and black stripes. Girl friend gone. Bike gone. I was becoming practical: When I had accumulated enough money to by another bike, I bought another Katana: a 1993 model, blue with bronze wheels. Kept it for about some time. At some point I looked around and it was 2003: I began reading everything I could about the VFR. I am not ashamed to say I paid almost full price for the first new bike I ever owned: my 2002 VFR Interceptor. Red. The bike is almost ten years old, but you really can't tell. I haven't reached its limits and I doubt I ever will. So when everyone has chimed in, you're next question has to be: What is the next bike you'll own, and why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Cogswell Posted June 11, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 11, 2011 5th gen - purchased new, still owned 4th gen - used - traded for the 5th Various dirt bikes - R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 As for my next one, it will probably be of the cruiser variety. I'd like to think I'd keep the VFR around, but I may have to look for a new place to live in doing so. Girlfriends just don't understand the multi-bike disease. If and when it ever happens, I know I'll miss the VFR. Still one of the best bikes I've ever ridden (and there's been a few, believe me!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1TallTXn Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 XR200R VFR was my first street bike. Big bite, but I managed it. Since then, I had a ST1300, and now have a pair of GL1100's that I'm rebuilding. The VFR is still here and is my daily transport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer arrow Posted June 16, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 16, 2011 My first bike was actually a scooter, a 1988 Piaggio Vespa PX200 that my dad bought me in 1989. I still have it, and I'll never sell it. My first proper bike was a 1993 Kawasaki KLR600. After that it was a 1997 Kawasaki ZX-7R. God I loved that bike. It was red, with a purple tail and it made a wonderful sound. It wasn't that comfortable though. Next up was a 2000 Kawasaki ZX-6R (can you see a pattern developing here?) which I loved to bits as well. When I met my now-ex-wife, I decided to get something more comfortable and went for a 2002 Aprilia Futura. That was also a very good bike, I did a lot of long distance riding on that one but it felt a bit too grown up for me. It also had certain niggling faults (electrical system, coils etc) so I decided to get rid of it before it broke my heart. I always loved the VFRs so when I found a lightly used dark blue one, I decided to go for it, but the owner and I disagreed on something at the last moment. Just a couple of days later, I found my current steed with just 2800 miles on it. I wanted a red one anyway. The VFR felt so good after the Futura, because it feels much more agile, the sound is infinitely better and it has that Honda quality. This bike has become the most modified bike I have ever owned. It has (a deep breath) a K&N filter, Rapidbike 3 Module, BOS slip-ons, HyperPro Shock (progressive spring, fully adjustable incl. high and low speed compression), Scottoiler, Zero Gravity double bubble screen, Titax clutch and brake levers (black) and most recently a HK Suspension modified fork with full adjustability (compression on the left, rebound on the right). I love this bike so much that I decided to go ahead and splash for a Supercharger from A&A Performance (aka the Torocharger). I'll also be changing the headers, brake lines (kevlar) and adding a carbon-fiber hugger as I install the SC. I don't think I'll ever sell my Viffer, I love it too much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 89 Ninja 600... Buying the VFR was the best bike decision I made and wouldn't look back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDO-VFR Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 2000 VFR800 07 GSXR750 track 02 CBR F4i track 91 CBR F2 track 93 VFR 99 SV650 01SV650 97 CBR XX 83 750 Interceptor CX650 CB700 Nighthawk CB 650 Nighthawk 99 R6 99 GSXR750 99 BMW R1100C 89 Kaw Concours 99 Ninja 250 06 VFR800 02 VFR800 84 Yamaha FJ1100 04 VFR800 track 00 Triumph 955i Triumph Trophy etc., etc. OK then, who did you date before your last wife Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer whiteboyslo Posted June 16, 2011 Member Contributer Share Posted June 16, 2011 '03 Suzuki SV650s Same here. More or less, that was my first bike. I liked it a lot, but there came a time when I had to admit that it wasn't made to hold a 6'7" 300lb gorilla such as myself. Bone stock suspension combined with my weight and the SVs plentiful low-end torque made for a rocking-horse of a ride everytime I even thought about adjusting the throttle. The brakes sucked, too, and my butt would be killing me after a long ride, but I loved the way you could toss it about. Next ride to join the VFR in the garage will be my brother's 03 SV1000 (technically already there, but not mine yet). It solves all the issues my 650 had (he's upgraded the suspension) and puts a smile on my face everytime I ride it. Can't wait. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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