FromMaine

What a nice example of a 4th Gen. I never get tired of looking at the lines on these bikes.

That's a great photo.

The rose amongst the thorns. :)

Lobster boats in the harbor lining up tp get hauled, its the end of the season.

Rockport Harbor, about a mile from my house.

Nice looking 4th Gen, really like the high mount exhaust.

Very nice, I'll take 2 Thank You!

Nice! 

We're just starting to get some color here in Mid Coast Maine. 

Lights, mirrors, plate, passenger pegs, street tires. He's tracking a stock 4th Gen with headers and a pipe. That is a great shot.

Really like the fairing on my 4th Gen, Really liked the 8 spoke and white wheels on my 3rd Gen in the UK. Kept the rear rim when I sold my 3rd Gen, interesting story, very bemused English buyer. Now finally a needed fork seal job, new tires, and a precautionary replacement of stem head bearings after 75K meant it was time to finish melding the two. I ended up painting my 4th Gen front although I have a 3rd Gen rim. So 4th Gen in Italian Red, with 3rd Gen rear, and white rims. A high mount exhaust for the TBR can would be nice, but we'll see.

4th Gens rule. Especially Italian Red 4th gens.

🙂

Dragging hard parts 🙂

Finnish camouflage……..

Motorcycle? what motorcycle...….?

Nice looking ride Keny!

Hi Stray:

Thanks for the kind comment. She's a rider, not a trailer queen as she has about 125,000 kilometers on her. You will be pleased to know the rear rim is from the UK, it was on my 3rd Gen I had while working there a few years back.

Thanks Miguel, that is a sight for sore eyes right now. There is 2 feet of snow on the ground now and since it snows until late April here  its unlikely I'll be taking another pic like this anytime soon.

Still really like that bike, road it cross country in 2012. Surprisingly able despite the riding position

 Bit of a blunderbus against today's sniper rifles, but not bad for a 35 year old Honda.

I honestly think the 4th Gen VFR in Italian Red is the nicest looking mass produced bike ever made. Sure I'm biased, but still I never get tired looking at them. Great pic!

Thanks mate, I'll bug my brother the welder (nukes, now jet engines) if something like that is possible on a 4th Gen.

Great, great photo. I am curious about the six pack rack on the tail with a seat cover. Any chance you could post a few close ups? Thanks. 

Read Cogswells post incorrectly. Posted thinking it was a 5th gen bike. 

Mea Culpa.

Post is gone now, for good reason. I finally looked at the bike and the post.

So, where are my reading glasses again? ……………………………………...

My error!

On ‎8‎/‎15‎/‎2018 at 9:26 AM, MaxSwell said:

I have to believe riding with one's children is one of the better thing to do with one's mc.

Happy Trails.

How true. When my daughter graduated a few years back I drove my Sabre to Las Vegas and flew my daughter there. I didn't want her to deal with the eastern seaboard traffic. We then drove to San Diego, then up the coast on rt 1 and 101 to the Olympic Peninsula, then up to the Canadian border. then down to 90, then 94 to northern Minn. Around the great lakes and up in to upstate NY and across the mountains and back to Maine.

She watched girls surfing in Mission Beach. North of LA we would pull off the coast road and head inland and have lunch at Farm stands, fruit, veggies, cheese, whatever was on offer. When I dragged my collector and peg in a corner on Rt 20, she didn't panic. When I stopped for a day just south of SF to work on the bike at a friends house, she took it in stride. We crossed the Golden Gate in the fog and later stopped at a quiet section of road for her to take some pictures of fur seals on the beach. In Northern Calf a buddy stopped by in the morning and took us to a stand of Redwoods well off the beaten path. We had to hike in for 20 minutes or so, but I will never forget the look on my daughters face when we got there. With a high wind warning and hundreds of Semis pulled off the road we crossed the Columbia river Bridge at a 30 degree angle, ill advised to say the least. We spent 3 days in pouring rain on the Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound before parking it up in Bellingham. I was sitting in the hotel lobby nursing a beer, having a talk with myself when my daughter walked by on her way to the pool. "Where are we going  tomorrow" Ummm, Montana, about 12 hours I replied. "OK" she said. Despite not having any dry gear for the past 3 days, she was undeterred. 

In 26 days we covered 7100 miles and she never complained once. To say we bonded on that trip would be an understatement. So Thank You Maxswell for your comment, it brought back so many good memories.

Heck Yeah!

Nice looking VFR, and a great photo.

Devils Tower in Wyoming.

Great photo, another millimeter and you're dragging hard parts.