New old bike..

[ogri48]

couldn't raise the dosh for a decent gen one but £1380 got me this ofn eBay...doing a mini tour if Wales with the missus this lovely weekend..:-)

[ogri48]

27000miles up and it runs like a watch...handles well too even loaded up..ain't got the power of the big fazer but it's fun useing the gearbox to keep it in the sweet zone and its plenty fast enough on Welsh mountain roads :-)

[ogri48]

Biggest. Bonus is the missus is a comfortable onnit as she was on the gen one , there's not been many bikes I can say that about. Still want a nice gen one, perhaps the end of this season eh...

[ogri48]

Twenty years old and still looks almost as good as new and  although a tourer/all rounder runs rings around nobbers on new gixxers etc... Gotta hand it to Honda, when they put their  mind to it they build a bloody good bike

[Mick-H]

Great bikes had 2 of em and 2 fazers.
For me the fazer wins just because I'm not a lover of full fairings, it's that close between them.

[fatbloke62]

I have  fond memories of my vfr800 I had it for three years till I got the gen 1 ,I sometimes wish I had the room for a second bike  I'd have another .Nice bike by the way

[mtread]

Bargain at that price. With the luggage?

[taylor]

the skirrid just up the road from me, nice pub.

[ogri48]

Yup lovely old pub that ...bike came with the wingrack and top box, got the givvi panniers from a feller in Kettering, cost me another 120 sovs, and twenty miles into my ownership of the Vfr the reg/rec fried so but luckily me mates shop in Peterborough ( bikes and trikes)had the better metal heat sink looking one in for a vtr1000 the customer had never picked up so had that for £72 so cost me about £1600 all in, 200 miles into our tour I'm thinking it was worth every penny, dont think I've ever had a bike with the engine/ gearbox/ chassis in such perfect harmony

[Mick-H]

Have to agree I loved mine.
If you decide to keep it try to get a Staintune exhaust for it sounds absolutely awesome.

Some folk fit a PC fan to the RR to avoid it overheating worth doing as I never had any issues with mine once one was fitted.

Have to admit even though I love my Fazer that VFR engine in a Fazer 1000 set up would be my ideal bike.

[ogri48]

It's a revelation mick. Right now I'm seriously considering selling the mt and getting a fazer to run alongside the vfr..i really struggle with useing an expensive bike properly and in all weathers, with an older one I know I can get cheap parts and fix it myself if summat happens...and I'm having more fun on that old vfr than I have on the various newer bikes I've had in recent years.. What's that all about? Perhaps it's just that old men like old school bikes...I dunno...but I'm hooked on this v four, just gets better the more miles I put onnit (340 so far this weekend and we are still in South Wales just about to hit the hotel spa pool...I'm hoping we got it to ourselves so pen can liberate the 36ff's..;-))

[slimwilly]

Nice bike Ogri,,I too had one of them,that model, a 96 fr, had it ten years, only one rectifier, other than that ,chain msprocket ,oil , brilliant bike and the most bombproof engine ever,,,never even changed the plugs.

Could bounce it off the limiter in every gear, farthest I went was to Barcelona.

We had a five bike ride across Wales yesterday, over to Aberystwyth, found some amazing roads, I love taking new folks there.

You will now be in Noggy country,,keep quiet and don't stop.lol

Oh and you goty awfully close to Hereford at the Skirrid,,that place is haunted by the hangman you know

[ogri48]

Yup brilliant bike, brilliant roads mate, and found the nicest beach I've ever seen in the UK today at rhossili

[ogri48]

And then on to the fantastically named " mumbles"..:-)

[ogri48]

Last photo...one very happy pillion having finally found a bike she likes being on the back of as much as she did our old gen one fazer...they filmed the timotei ads at that place donchakno...;-)