How Many 2007 RWB Were Made?

# 269 is in n.e. ohio picked up on 5/3/o8

 

I think I was too exicited about "TRI" on the end of VIN, because
I thought the registration card was filled by Honda and it came with
the bike.

If I buy a Nikon camera, it will come with a warranty paper
with a serial number already filled. The paper is packed with the camera
when it leaves Nikon.

In case of Honda's registration card, I think it was filled by the dealer I
purchased the bike from. That is why my name & address have same
printings as VIN.

I am very sorry for letting some of you very excited about this.

 

canuck

Hi Gang.

I've been lurking around this forum till today and finally registered.

I have vin number JH2RC46987M900070

I have been very curious to know the answer to the how many question too...

and can I get a moment of silence for the 3 dead RWB's spoke about on this thread. Fire, drowning, and accident... how cruel..

 

Welcome dutch! It is a very interesting thread huh.

 

to say the least.

my dealer said it was a limited number too. we have 3 of them in our city area. not bad considering the island has a pop of 500k. 200k in the metro area.

my dealer had one, then found 2 more, (mine included) on the mainland of canada. they were not selling in the other dealerships. honda canada had none left but the dealer floor models were still there so my dealer brought them down here.

very poor promo from honda. this bike was hot when it hit the floor. many on lookers. don't know why it is not a head liner for honda???

i had an 84 and fell head over heals for this package. I love this bike...it is the sweetest thing on the road.. cherry!.

I support the database idea for the vin registrations. Someone please do that. in years to come say 20 or 30 it will be the list to be on. A+++ if anyone does it, please email me at dutch_105 at hotmail.com. I want in.

:bolt:

 

Mine's JH2RC468X7M000045...purchased officially last week. Dealership picked it up last Winter as a non-current model.

 

I learned something interesting this morning.

My VIN is JH2RC46917M900055.
The first 3 letters show the manufacturing country and JH2 is Japan.
1HF is USA, 3H1 is Mexico...etc. JH2 is motor cycle made in Japan and
JH3 is all terrain v. made in Japan.
RC46 is, off cause, model code for VFR.
9 after RC46 is version specification and 1 is called Check Digit. I haven't figured out,
however, it is something to do with bar code.
7 is the year of manufacturing, but I think that it is probably model year.
If that is 1, it means 2001, but 2000 is Y, 1999 is X, 1998 is W. 1980 is A.
I, O, Q, U and Z haven't been used since they are easily confused with numerical letters.
That means 21 alphabets plus 9 numbers make one cycle for production years.
M is Hamamatsu factory. Saitama factory is C, Ohio is A and South Carolina is 4.
The last 6 digits are the number of bikes produced, however, the first digit 9 is given
after minor modifications. It could be 1 or 2 ...etc. I think minor modifications include such as
reflectors, stickers.... etc.

Oh, no I did it again. Rouse wrote this few days ago. Sorry, Rouse, however, I am not erasing mine
since I think I added something more to his writing.

 

I work for American Honda (on the automotive side), but this week I'll go upstairs and ask the bike guys how many 25th Anniversary Interceptors were made for 2007. Furthermore, I'll ask if they know the number of ABS versus non-ABS that were made.

And as for "rarity", I recently bought the first (of two) 25th Anniversary Interceptor press bikes that were on hand in California for the media to ride/test/use in a comparo. The bike that I have was used by Motorcyclist, Cycle World, and such.

The bike has ABS (all press Interceptors are fit with ABS) and it was the one fit with the matching blue hard-shell side luggage (the other 25th Anny Interceptor does not have the luggage... and it is still sitting in Honda's Torrance-based warehouse). Interestingly, both R/W/B Interceptors had 2,500 miles on the odo when they were taken out of the press vehicle fleet. My bike even has a Honda keychain with wording on the back that gives the VIN info and has the words "press" on it.

 

Holy cow that is awesome!

Thanks for taking this on for us and you. So you have the first RWB. Is it #1? I think I have pictures of your bike from a review kicking around. Wow that is cool. Welcome to the forum John. eace:

 

I have no idea if it is number one or not... I guess I'll have to pay a visit to the garage to have a look-see at the VIN. What aspect of the VIN will tell me for sure (hey, I'm a car guy not a bike guy).

 

John the last numbers in your VIN will be 9XXXXX. If it is 900001 then its number 1 off the line. It may be 900003, that could still be the first RWB due to there may have been two 2007 reds in front of it.

Were not entirely sure how Honda sequentially did there numbers but that's what were guessing so far. You may be able to clear up a bunch of questions for us with some strategic questions. Simply knowing how many were built will give us a good idea. So far we know that the RWB VIN's go up to at least 1308... but if you get an answer that only 1000 were made then we know that the VIN's were mixed sequentially with the reds. Not sure if the ABS or <ABS were different VIN's...

 

"Mine's JH2RC468X7M000045...purchased officially last week"

Joson, some bikes don't have "9" at the head of six digits.
John, hurry up I want to know today!!!

 

Actually up until now I was thinking that the "9" segment was actually a color designation. Only based on what I have seen up here in the dealerships.

dizzy stated a VIN without a "9". dizzy can you double check for us pls.

 

I just checked and the VIN ends with "93". Contrary to popular belief, many press vehicles (whether a car or motorcycle) is not the first off the assembly line. Often times, the press vehicles are "pre production" units with no VIN.

 

Thanks John... at least there is a "9" in there... We may have whole other question to address here soon LOL.

 

I guess that is another question that I can ask the motorcycle guys... do all 25 Anniversary Interceptors have a starting digit of "9" and/or were they all built as one lot or were they built inbetween runs of normal Interceptors.

This week is a bit busy for me including heading to the Maxton Mile this weekend as I'm going to try to re-establish another Standing Mile world record. FYI: lots of fast bikes always show up at Maxton.

Anybody going to Maxton?

 

You know I think all the RWB's in North America start with a "9". I think dizzy's VIN may be incorrect. Thats what I am hoping anyway. I have a message out to him so we will see. Great question to ask Honda though.

 

gigity gigity.... man i'm like a kid at christmas now waiting to know the answers to this....

:biggrin:

can the mods on here make a database of these vins or is that beyond the boards ability?

 

Jason,
I am wondering that the Dizzy's bike has the VIN "....8X7M..." I don't know about your VIN,
however, mine is "...917M...". I wonder if "9" was the model for North America, "8" was
intended for somewhere else since my 9 or dizzy's 8 is the version specification.
I think John probably will have much clear information by tommorrow evening,
but I am now very curious.:bolt:

Austrarian have tricolours VFR as 2008 models, however, they are for their 20th anniversary models..
I wonder EC may have them next year as their 25th year limited edtion bikes.

All of Canadian tricolour bikes have ABS brakes but some of US and Austrarian models have non ABS brakes.

 

Very sorry 'bout the mistake...you guys are totally right about my VIN being wrong. The correct VIN is JH2RC468X7M900045. If it helps to know, mine is also an ABS model. I think someone one here speculated about the "X" ... It seems to me on GL1800's the X does indicate the ABS model.