I would like to introduce myself to everyone. I've been riding on the street for over 30 years. I've always been a Honda guy (OK there was one Bultaco, but that wasn't a street bike so it doesn't count). My last bike was a SuperHawk, which I bought new in 2000 and rode for 35k trouble-free miles. When I bought it, I had looked at the VFR, in fact, it was pretty much a flip of a coin that made me go with the SuperHawk. Looking back, I don't regret that decision one bit, it was a great machine for short (20-30 mile) commutes and blasting around on the back roads. Anyway, I wanted something with longer legs. The VFR came to mind, naturally, and my first search of Ebay turned up an 04 from a seller not 10 minutes from my house. Well, I got a look at the bike, was high bidder, etc., and brought it home on Friday. I took a short toot yesterday, but today I went for a 220 ride over the Delaware Memorial Bridge into southern New Jersey to a friend's house. NICE!!! There were a few good passing opportunities on some straight stretches of the mostly 2 lane roads I was on and I got to open it up a bit. What a fine machine. I love the intake honk. It's definitely a much more refined than the Hawk, not to say that it didn't have its redeeming attributes (e.g., oodles of torque). Honda does it again, what can I say? The bike came with hard bags mounted, and a PCIII with O2 eliminators already set up. Otherwise stock, with 3400 miles on the clock and clean as a whistle. The seller took very good care of it. There's also a couple of years left on an extended warranty. I think got a good deal at $6750. I really like the color (red). I'm using it as a commuter as well as a weekend sport tourer. I plan to get many happy miles out of it. Thanks for listening, hope to talk to many of you in the future. One happy camper, Rod :biggrin:
welcome rod. glad to have you here. that sounds like a decent deal to me although I really haven't priced the new ones, but yours sounds hardly used at all... enjoy vfrworld...
