1988 Vrf 750r (aka RC30)

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    I worked for a Honda dealer for a year or so back in 1983. I was a parts guy at the age of 16 and left after getting a restaurant job that I made more money ($5 hr was not killing me with interest vs. $3.35 plus tips and tequila left overs from guests). I was in love with the V45 Saber and the CBX full fairing models. I really wanted the CBX 6 cylinder what a bike). I never paid attention to Honda after 1988. I rode the VFR 500, The 750r and the VFR 1100f that a few friend owned as well as the 1983 Suzuki Katana (weird ass looking bike). I wanted the 1988 VFR750R in pearl white. but at the time I had a following in Kawasaki's GPz's. In line vs. V4's. Being young I wanted top end and did not understand mid range and torque. Lesson learned. This 1998 VFR 750R is amazing to look at vs. so called 28 yrs of styling and engineering.
     
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    Would love to have one of the first fully faired vfr's , an 88 would be sweet, even an earlier vfr with the 2 sided SW arm would be sweet.
     
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    Sorry, as much as i love my gen 3 bikes, that Katana was a neat bike. Wouldnt trade what i got for one though.
     
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    i wonder if anyone would ride this bike on the street. the cost is not a problem for some, but its a shame they made them in such limited numbers. what a beauty.
     
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    I found it weird. Great bike, I had a great time riding my friends, but found the styling a little quirky (like bad Japanese animation "Poke man" quirky) looking for a picture of the stock and seeing the custom green one. Now that is dedication to a bike loved by someone.
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    Man that first one is pretty hot, compare the styling of that bike to say the current Kawasaki naked bike, Z1000 or what ever, that one was really designed by a bunch of Japanese "gamers" on some CAD program. The thing with those older bikes at least for me is that their shapes are more organice (something I can wrap my head and eyes around.) Some of the new designs are "out-there" not ruling out a Gixxer or Busa in my future mind you, but right now I will stick with my carbureted 20 something year old bikes. :thumbsup:
     
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    Honda never produced a VFR500 or VFR1100. Prior to 1985 all Interceptors were designated as "VF" models not "VFR." In addition to this the VF Interceptor was never available as a 1100cc bike only 1000cc.

    Are you sure you didn't ride a VFR750f and not a VFR750r which is similar to what you posted in the picture? Those bikes were built for racing and carried a huge $15000+ price tag which was alot of money in the late 80's. They were also very limited in availability with the majority imported and owned by race teams with just a few lucky private collectors owning the rest.
     
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    That Katana design was farmed out to a top designer in Germany........... whose name i've forgotten. :numbness:
     
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    I do agree with you on the first one! Color, design and changing the rear wheel. I wonder why they didn't change the front out as well. Honestly what bugged me is the (pardon using bug again) the front headlight cowl, it's bug like. It doesn't make sense to me with a great line and then a pop up rectangular head light above the line? And yes the new weird ass naked bikes by kawi are goofy as shit, but this really is a retro design in my opinion of the bike I was speaking about. I agree with you also on some of the old carbureted bikes. Loved my GPz1100. Not being much of a mechanic (due to trying and always having extra parts when finished. That did not instill confidence within me to do much work myself when it came to 2 wheels ;-)), and had a friend still working at the Honda dealership that I worked at when I was young. He was the head mechanic for 20yrs and did all of the adjustments for me really cheap. To bad he left to work on Honda cars shortly afterwards, and then became a Insurance guy due to the bullshit and pay.

    Now I have fuel injection, complicated valves that I will have to pay a premium to be worked on. I miss the old die hard mechanics that did killer work and you knew it was done right at home so not to lose there jobs and you paid them more than the shop did. Now the shops take $80 a hour and give some kid $10 a hour just out of school or was the tire guy due to a good one quitting.I will stick to oil changes, coolant drains and will never ever do wiring because I failed at that as well!
     
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