2012 VFR gets bigger fuel tank!

[Silverbird]

...by .1 gallons!

Go Honda! They sure know how to listen to their customers!

[veefer800canuck]

Yeah. Give a guy at least .5 gallons more and it would actually help out.  

[KodiakRS]

Is it .1 less ugly and .1 less expensive as well?

[Cablebandit]

I'm sure none of it is "usable" either.

[R Doug]

 

[sammyseaman]

Honda: Making me laugh for 26yrs  

[Silverbird]

...amd making me cry for the past several

[Will_Munny]

great forum!

[Silverbird]

you mean thread?  

[Giaka]

I'm sure none of it is "usable" either.

Odd, its not like they don't know how to build a decent size tank. My ST13 holds like a million gallons.

[Warchild]

...amd making me cry for the past several

Yep, me too...... when Honda pussed out on the hyperbike wars and failed to replaced the Blackbird, that was the ball game for me.

They may have thought they were going to recoup previous/current Blackbird owners by making this ridiculous Viffer1200... they failed.

And the damn thing looks like cat-ralph..... a goofy-ass big wedge of plastic for a fairing...  bah...  

[Dan K]

I want to ride one and will reserve judgment until I do.  The motor intrigues me.  Didn't they build the new cross tourer or somehting with the same engine with adventure styling and a bigger tank?

[R Doug]

I like the looks of the bike.  If it had a larger tank, I would very much consider it.

[Silverbird]

The motor is not the issue, aside from the pathtic drop in power at low RPM (which is only fixable with a power commander that zaps the already poor fuel mileage even more.

The issue is that the VFR1200 is now the cross-dresser of motorcycles. It doesn't know what the hell iut wants to be. It's almost like the engineers started acting on every concept the enormous budget would allow for and completely lost track of what the bike was intended for.

I mean, most bikes you can tweak with the aftermarket and come up with a pretty capable machine but this thing...with it's massive wheelbase, weight problem, pathetic rage, narrow as a XR650L seat, and low RPM power delivery issue, and outrageous MSRP and debatable looks, nice try Honda. Hard to believe you engineered the machine of my dreams, the XX just a few years back.

[Silverbird]

The motor is not the issue, aside from the pathtic drop in power at low RPM (which is only fixable with a power commander that zaps the already poor fuel mileage even more).

The issue is that the VFR1200 is now the cross-dresser of motorcycles. It doesn't know what the hell it wants to be. It's almost like the engineers started acting on every concept the enormous budget would allow for and completely lost track of what the bike was intended for.

I mean, most bikes you can tweak with the aftermarket and come up with a pretty capable machine but this thing...with it's massive wheelbase, weight problem, pathetic rage, narrow as a XR650L seat, low RPM power delivery issue, and outrageous MSRP and debatable looks, nice try Honda. Hard to believe you engineered the machine of my dreams, the XX just a few years back.

[atadaskew]

Some shops are now selling these for $10K new.
Which is insane.


Butt, when I showed a pic of the bike to my gf, and two other girls at work, they all thought it was fugly.

So, maybe it's the fugly that is not helping it either?  Adding 0.1 gallons of gas (as if that actually happened) did not get rid of any of the fugly.

Ok, maybe their opinion shouldn't count, butt when the press corp call this bike "Shamu", you know the VFR is in trouble.

[Orson]

looks like a great sport tourer  

If the Motus is priced out of reach, the VFR would be on my short list  

[Will_Munny]

The motor is not the issue, aside from the pathtic drop in power at low RPM (which is only fixable with a power commander that zaps the already poor fuel mileage even more.

The issue is that the VFR1200 is now the cross-dresser of motorcycles. It doesn't know what the hell iut wants to be. It's almost like the engineers started acting on every concept the enormous budget would allow for and completely lost track of what the bike was intended for.

I mean, most bikes you can tweak with the aftermarket and come up with a pretty capable machine but this thing...with it's massive wheelbase, weight problem, pathetic rage, narrow as a XR650L seat, and low RPM power delivery issue, and outrageous MSRP and debatable looks, nice try Honda. Hard to believe you engineered the machine of my dreams, the XX just a few years back.

The drop in power is not fixed with a power commander... it is fixed by shorting a couple wires. Free mod. Poor fuel mileage? Average 39mpg (US), ridden hard. That's as close to 200 mile range as damn is to swearing.

It knows EXACTLY what it wants to be... a sport-tourer, in the same vein as the K1300S which it was benchmarked against.

It also happens to be the best sport-tourer on the market, bar none. It will also destroy a blackbird in every measurable category.

So there.  

The only "press" person calling it Shamu is that twat Wes Siler, who decided he hated it well before he threw a leg over it.... just like all the other haters.

[Roadscum]

The drop in power is not fixed with a power commander... it is fixed by shorting a couple wires. Free mod. Poor fuel mileage? Average 39mpg (US), ridden hard. That's as close to 200 mile range as damn is to swearing.

....................

So there.  

The only "press" person calling it Shamu is that twat Wes Siler, who decided he hated it well before he threw a leg over it.... just like all the other haters.

What is accomplished by shorting together the wires???

Ya'll seem to have missed the most important change for 2012....... a BOLD new color!
Last summer I spent 2 months touring the Alps on my K1100RS and saw many of the new VFR's on the road. They look stunning in the brilliant white available in Europe....

Regards, Paul

[keepergale]

http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/index.php/topic/63159-how-to-remove-power-limitations-1st-and-2nd-gear/

Basically this tells the ECU the bike is not in 1st or 2nd gear. Hondas ECU delivers a poor mans version of traction control by limiting power in 1st and 2nd.