VFRGeek

Another vote for the PR3 - I put mine on late last year, and they made the VFR even more fun to ride. Caveat emptor - my only comparison tire is the Dunlop Sportmax rubber rim protectors that came on the bike; no doubt MANY tires are better than that ancient model. -VFRGeek

Stewby - with your gearing, is the VTEC 'hit' more pronounced than it was before? I am wondering if the gearing will make the hit 'chirp' the rear even more than it occasionally does now at WOT. Derek The change he made is roughly 10% "shorter" gearing - at any given speed/gear combination that would equate to about 10 % more torque at the back tire. I would expect that to exaggerate the effect, for sure. -VFRGeek

Not to rain on your parade here, but I don't think taller gearing is going to help top speed much, and will likely hurt. There is an excellent web page for learning the effect of gearing changes, Gearing Commander . They have what looks to be a correct preset for a stock VFR. According to this chart, the speed would be 154 MPH at the 10,500 RPM horsepower peak. This corresponds nicely with the 150 to 155 MPH top speed generally reported. Taller gearing would just LOWER the available power. To be blunt it looks like Honda got the gearing exactly right for a stock engine. Given the expense of large horsepower gains for this engine using a supercharger, you best bet is just to trade the VFR for a good used Hayabusa. The VFR is not meant to be a top speed bike, it is a Sport Touring bike with an emphasis IMHO more on Sport than Touring, but you can only pull so much HP from an 781cc engine without killing low RPM performance. My $00.02 -VFRGeek