On 9/8/12 9:22 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
I *loved* my 1986 Honda VFR. Wish I'd been able to keep it in addition to the Triumph but it just wasn't possible. Honda made every redesign of that bike worse after 86-87: More and more electronic gizmos, linked brakes, pseudo VTEC valve system... and now it's a 1200cc behemoth with shaft drive. Oh yes, and they got uglier every year after the 86-87 model. The only Honda I ever lusted after was the RC-30 but I'm glad I was never able to afford one because they apparently were better race bikes than street bikes: the hand-laid fiberglass was beautiful but much more porous than the cheaper machine-made fiberglass (or ABS plastic), so the paint bubbled and peeled after a few years; two-ring pistons are nice for getting minimum friction/maximum horsepower but they let the bike burn oil at a prodigious rate. I'd love to get something silly like a Royan Enfield for tooling around Boston.
I pondered a Royal Enfield a few years back, and still wouldn't mind having one. They are gloriously weird.
An '86 Interceptor 500 would go nicely in my garage. Great balance of power to weight, they figured out the valve thing by then, and the red/white/blue color scheme is still distinctive.
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