(My) VFR1200F

[carinaman]

That looks a bit BDSM.

[bolidemichael]

One of those nights, eh?

[bolidemichael]

Does anyone know the torque settings for the rear wheel?

[trickywoo]

bolidemichael said:

Does anyone know the torque settings for the rear wheel?

108Nm.

[bolidemichael]

trickywoo said:

bolidemichael said:

Does anyone know the torque settings for the rear wheel?

108Nm.

Thanks for that!

[myvision]

Lads does my seat look as though its lowered compared to yours I know its not original but I'm now wondering if its lowered a bit.

[bolidemichael]

No, it looks as though it has been designed to engineer an enforced gap between your crotch and the tank, which is a positive thing for machine control/counter steering where ideally your forearms remain parallel with the ground.

[McWoody69]

A993LAD said:

Excellent well done and congratulations on your new purchase.

I am on my second one as well and did 36,000 miles on the first one and now over 44,000 on the second one. I'm thinking about replacing the second one with a third one to get low mileage again because these bikes are great and they are not making them anymore of course.

VFR 1200s are fantastic value for money I've seen 2010 bikes as low as 3K now which is an amazing deal.

Tell us more about your new purchase and surely you will be posting some pictures here in due course?

Nah, no pics as I don't want to hijack this thread but it's a red one, so near identical to the OPs and the same as my previous one though it was a GT and this one isn't....but has loads of extra's.....like brake/clutch levers, hugger, cruise control throttle grip thing like that Kaeko(?) thing. (I was wondering what that thing as, so it'll be interesting to see how that works out)
Unlike the OP, I try to get the youngest, best condition example I can, and I really nailed it this time as the new one is showroom at 25K miles on a 15 plate.. can't quite believe how clean it is.
The previous example I had, we put about 15K miles on it and got as far as Venice and it was meant to be my forever bike but redundancy put paid to that plan, and in between we had a Sprint GT that was good, but the VFR is great so we're more than happy to be back again.

I get what others say about the VFR but for me it's a 400mile a day machine that goes about as far on a tank as I ever want to...has performance that exceeds my abilities and never misses a beat......oh, and to my eyes is a thing of beauty.

There really is very very little to not like with it and I don't exepct to be changing this one....

[bolidemichael]

I don’t mind photos, so post away.

biker9090 here’s in image of the ‘throttle grip’ to which O referred previously… simple to use.

[Pit Pony]

bolidemichael said:

snagzie said:

bolidemichael said:

snagzie said:

Not the best of days eh

Well, I did manage to fill up with V Power though and arranged insurance through MCE. "Always look on the bright side of life..."

Oh gawd.... MCE.....

Hope you don't have to claim!

What do you reckon of my chances so far then?

You've already had 2 accidents with damage, you failed to declare, so I reckon they are going to weasel out of a real claim.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Biker9090 said:

I'm currently in Adenau on mine.

Friday- Poperinge, Ypres, Sanctuary Wood, Bruges and Sint Niklaas
Saturday- Nijmegen and Arnhem
Sunday- Overloon, Nurburgring and Adenau

Lane splitting around Ghent at rush hour in sheet rain was "interesting". The wind through Holland and Germany today was genuinely frightening, 270kg of VFR blown around like a rag doll. Also got flashed at indicated 86kph (roughly 83 real) in a 70 zone, albeit on a front facing camera only...... Really quite disappointed with myself in that (thought it was higher).

Blimey, my old R1200RT was pretty rock solid in the worst sideways gusts

I'm really tempted to buy a VFR1200..

[bolidemichael]

Hugo Stiglitz said:

Biker9090 said:

I'm currently in Adenau on mine.

Friday- Poperinge, Ypres, Sanctuary Wood, Bruges and Sint Niklaas
Saturday- Nijmegen and Arnhem
Sunday- Overloon, Nurburgring and Adenau

Lane splitting around Ghent at rush hour in sheet rain was "interesting". The wind through Holland and Germany today was genuinely frightening, 270kg of VFR blown around like a rag doll. Also got flashed at indicated 86kph (roughly 83 real) in a 70 zone, albeit on a front facing camera only...... Really quite disappointed with myself in that (thought it was higher).

Blimey, my old R1200RT was pretty rock solid in the worst sideways gusts

I'm really tempted to buy a VFR1200..

I had a different experience when riding from Normandy to Germany a couple of years back (detailed on this thread somewhere). When it's turbulent, I knock down a gear and throttle into the wind; I find that the momentum and acceleration keeps me stable and swift, if I gauge it correctly. It doesn't strike me as though there's anything inherently susceptible to wind on the VFR.

[Biker9090]

Hugo Stiglitz said:

Blimey, my old R1200RT was pretty rock solid in the worst sideways gusts

I'm really tempted to buy a VFR1200..

Yeah there was a danger to life extreme gusts warning but I had the hotel booked and not a lot else available unfortunately.

Well I'm selling mine lol! If you're seriously interested PM me - I'm going down the ADV route now.....

[Biker9090]

bolidemichael said:

I had a different experience when riding from Normandy to Germany a couple of years back (detailed on this thread somewhere). When it's turbulent, I knock down a gear and throttle into the wind; I find that the momentum and acceleration keeps me stable and swift, if I gauge it correctly. It doesn't strike me as though there's anything inherently susceptible to wind on the VFR.

I think it was just overall power of the wind tbh. Danger to life extreme gusts warning. Those massive windmills were being spun round like nothing else across the planes.

[bolidemichael]

Biker9090 said:

bolidemichael said:

I had a different experience when riding from Normandy to Germany a couple of years back (detailed on this thread somewhere). When it's turbulent, I knock down a gear and throttle into the wind; I find that the momentum and acceleration keeps me stable and swift, if I gauge it correctly. It doesn't strike me as though there's anything inherently susceptible to wind on the VFR.

I think it was just overall power of the wind tbh. Danger to life extreme gusts warning. Those massive windmills were being spun round like nothing else across the planes.

Indeed -- sounds very much as though you should've set your carefully laid plans to one side and stayed under your duvet!

[myvision]

McWoody69 said:

Nah, no pics as I don't want to hijack this thread but it's a red one, so near identical to the OPs and the same as my previous one though it was a GT and this one isn't....but has loads of extra's.....like brake/clutch levers, hugger, cruise control throttle grip thing like that Kaeko(?) thing. (I was wondering what that thing as, so it'll be interesting to see how that works out)
Unlike the OP, I try to get the youngest, best condition example I can, and I really nailed it this time as the new one is showroom at 25K miles on a 15 plate.. can't quite believe how clean it is.
The previous example I had, we put about 15K miles on it and got as far as Venice and it was meant to be my forever bike but redundancy put paid to that plan, and in between we had a Sprint GT that was good, but the VFR is great so we're more than happy to be back again.

I get what others say about the VFR but for me it's a 400mile a day machine that goes about as far on a tank as I ever want to...has performance that exceeds my abilities and never misses a beat......oh, and to my eyes is a thing of beauty.

There really is very very little to not like with it and I don't exepct to be changing this one....

What is the difference with a GT one then?
I wonder whether mine is a GT or not now i didn't know they did a GT one I thought they were all the same?

[bolidemichael]

myvision said:

McWoody69 said:

Nah, no pics as I don't want to hijack this thread but it's a red one, so near identical to the OPs and the same as my previous one though it was a GT and this one isn't....but has loads of extra's.....like brake/clutch levers, hugger, cruise control throttle grip thing like that Kaeko(?) thing. (I was wondering what that thing as, so it'll be interesting to see how that works out)
Unlike the OP, I try to get the youngest, best condition example I can, and I really nailed it this time as the new one is showroom at 25K miles on a 15 plate.. can't quite believe how clean it is.
The previous example I had, we put about 15K miles on it and got as far as Venice and it was meant to be my forever bike but redundancy put paid to that plan, and in between we had a Sprint GT that was good, but the VFR is great so we're more than happy to be back again.

I get what others say about the VFR but for me it's a 400mile a day machine that goes about as far on a tank as I ever want to...has performance that exceeds my abilities and never misses a beat......oh, and to my eyes is a thing of beauty.

There really is very very little to not like with it and I don't exepct to be changing this one....

What is the difference with a GT one then?
I wonder whether mine is a GT or not now i didn't know they did a GT one I thought they were all the same?

iirc it was a later run out model where they chucked parts from the inventory at it.

Akrapovic exhaust, full luggage and touring screen. Perhaps others that I cannot recall.

[black-k1]

bolidemichael said:

iirc it was a later run out model where they chucked parts from the inventory at it.

Akrapovic exhaust, full luggage and touring screen. Perhaps others that I cannot recall.

Didn't they increase the tank capacity at some point in the model life? Was that related to the GT variant?

[bolidemichael]

black-k1 said:

bolidemichael said:

iirc it was a later run out model where they chucked parts from the inventory at it.

Akrapovic exhaust, full luggage and touring screen. Perhaps others that I cannot recall.

Didn't they increase the tank capacity at some point in the model life? Was that related to the GT variant?

Yes, they increased the tank capacity by 0.5L in 2012, which according to my regular consumption (post-ECU fettle) would give an additional c. 5 miles.

No, that wasn't related to the GT version.

[myvision]

I think mine could be a GT looking at this then I thought this was all standard to be honest.
https://www.honda.co.uk/motorcycles/my-bike/archiv...