Hi Picked up my 2006 VFR 800 in December 2014 from Brisbane and moved to Darwin in January 2015. Have been a reader of VFR for about a year and has taken me a while to write my first post. The VFR has 40,000klm on it, Honda top box & Honda panners. Just fitted a Delkevic exhaust system which sounds great but seems to have upset my fuel consumption. Otherwise everything else is stock standard. Bike has been well maintained prior to my purchase. I had a choice of bikes to buy at the time but couldn't go past the sound and feel of the V four. Real pleasure to ride. You can find a few pictures I posted of the bike and a few rides I went on in the Members photos .
Some will say that pix are evidence that a given bike is real. This in no way evidences that the poster is real. I'm sure glad of that. I am certain that some contributors look-wise, would be right up there with The FBI's ten most wanted gallery. Welcome aboard is the usual salutation here. I think if someone lives in the desert this does not apply. Who would own a boat in the desert anyway and who the hell would want to own a boat when bikes are so much more fun.?
Hello mate. Great looking bike you have there and great color. Sit back, grab a coldie and welcome to the World.
You're entirely welcome as are the other funny talking folks from down under.. To insure there is no language barrier but only one very large amount of seawater that divides us, allow me to define "a coldie". A coldie is a quickie in the snow.
If I had to define a quickie in Aus that would be a two backed monster doing the horizontal limbo. But seeing it's 38 degrees Celsius outside there's little chance of finding any snow, so that's not going to happen. However having a few coldies is a sure thing.
It is always 38 degrees celsius in Darwin, and during winter it drops to about 32 degrees and that is at midnight. Be very careful with him Billy he comes from real saltie country, so big they can swallow a VFR in one gulp
Just saw some pix of those taken by a customer of sorts here (the mayor) and her husband who were up that way. She's a biologist by profession and they are bird watchers. He teaches media in the local high school. They were on a guided tour and the byword on the boat was not to even put the camera outboard. Yep 17' is one big damn lizard. Those temps sound aboot like Houston for many months. IOW, turning a coldie into a warmie wouldn't take long. The data tells that alligators can run in bursts up to 40mph. Are the Salties as fast? Fast guy Usain Bolt tops oot about 23-25mph in the 100m run. Last, I wonder how much it would cost to ship a medium size Saltie to SOW as a gift. Cheers.
Billy I don't think the big salties could run that fast but they are dam fast over a short distance, no way you would outrun them. Darwin temps never seem to drop below 32 degrees celsius all year round
We may never know how fast they are on land. Maybe we could put SOW out a few steps ahead of one and crank up our stopwatches. Probably not much of a market in Darwin for wool suits I suppose.. Houston does get cooler in January and February. The folks there call Summer, 95 and 95. Some of the natives talk funny too..
Saltie top speed 35kph. 250,000 residents in the NT Over 250,000 Saltie and still counting Not a place to take up water sports. Plenty of open roads and the only state in Australia to have open speed limits.
The open speed limits also attract extremely expensive prototype sports cars driven at insane speeds by race car drivers. All in the name of testing vehicle integrity. If you can call a Porsche hitting 350kph integral. Don't think the VFR can keep up somehow.
