I ride a silver 2003 VFR800 equipped with Honda OEM saddle bags, tour box, taller GIVI windshield, with a handle bar conversion using Honda OEM ST-1300bars & throttle cables, and aftermarket hydrolic lines for the clutch and front brakes. I live in Ankeny Iowa[Des Moines] USA and use this bike as a secondary bike to my silver 2003 Honda St-1300. I have been around Honda motorcycles since 1961 and currently work at our local Honda dealership in the new bike assembly department. I've always wanted a VFR and wished I would have purchased an earlier model that uses the cam gears vs. the cam chain system. The best sound is an earlier VFR with a Two Brothers exhaust system ala an Indy 500 car sounding bike. WOW! My wife and I enjoy spending 2 weeks each Fall traveling the western USA on one of our bikes, usually just before and after the Labor Day weekend. We also follow the Iowa Hawkeyes football team to each bowl game each winter and have had the pleasure of riding in central and southern Florida in 2003 -2006. Best riding to all, Mike Mathews
Welcome Mike! Must be fun to put those bike together! Sounds like you and the wife have a great time on your bikes when the sun is shinning! If you ever venture to California be sure to let us know.....Brian
welcome to the group mike. glad you made it here... you would love to hear my bike if that's the way you feel. I'm running a 5g VFR with 2bros and K&N air filter with a PCII. I enjoy it on a regular basis, SLOVFR gets to really know how nice it sounds, though as he is usually on my 6.
mgmathews, welcome to the site! I live just north of you in Madrid, I have a brother in Ankeny I think he lives on 10th street on the northwest part of town, there are not alot of vfr's in central iowa I know of one other he has an 01, maybe this spring we can get togther for a ride, there are some curvy roads from Madrid to Fort Dodge.I rode a st1100 before switching to a 2000 model vfr.This Fall I passed a dark 1300 south of Boone maybe that was you and your wife!
Welcome to the group. Sounds like you get to enjoy some good long distance rides. Glad to have you here with us.
