Buying a Used VFR - "He may snatch his keys back" now makes sense.

A few years back read in UKs RIDE magazine hints when looking at Used VFRs if you find the right one " hand over your money quickly or he may snatch his keys back. "

Its always nice to help others spend their money so have been visiting a few bike shops recently helping an mate out test riding all the new Supersports machines.

My friend being a resently returned biker after 12 years break he was only interested looking at Supersports bikes as most of the riders he used to ride with then ( and I ) are riding R1s, Gixxers, Blades now, so he was not interested in a VFR. After test riding the '09 R1, 'Blade and GSXR1000 a few times with me over the last month he settled on the GSXR1000K9 as his best fit and ride away price.

Being the tag along "motorcyclist" :smile: at diffferent times the salesmens conversation would turn to me to see if I was interested in a a new machine, now I admit to being somewhat of a sucker for new things shiny and having semi tassit approval from my better half and with a good price nailed by my friends hard negotiations thought why not have a look around.

I tried out the Gixxer750 and 1000 but found them too plasticy and insubstantial then the Zx14R, Hayabusa and lastly the FZ1S which I had had genuine interests in and while thought then easy faster but I've never really needed more power couldn't see the point in changing over to a bike I didn't like as much as my current VFR.

In the end found I wasn't at all interested in loosing my VFR to something lesser and those words from RIDE " snatch his keys right back " suddenly made perfect sense. :thumbsup:

 

My first bike was a 1986 VF500F. After a few years, I thought I wanted a CBR. I owned a couple of them, then realized that even though they were sportier machines, I didn't like them as much as my original Interceptor. I've been a VFR / Interceptor owner since then. I find that the VFR has comfort, motor and handling that suites the "Average Joe" which is what I consider myself. I've had my license since I was 20, but I'm sure that I can't ride my bike to it's full potential. I find the VFR to be just right.