Today after 16 years and hundreds of thousands of kilometers later, I sold my 1999 Honda VFR800 Interceptor.
It was extremely reliable, comfortable for long-distance riding, sounded great, and did everything I asked of it.
The question now is what bike to get...
Seeing as I don't plan on taking long road trips anymore (keeping things to 250km/day max), and riding mostly in the city, I've been looking at the naked bikes.
Yamaha FZ07 (it's supposed to be better than the FZ09? but seeing as it's new I can only buy new ones - not sure I want to pay the premium cost)
Yamaha FZ09 (heard there's a bit of a throttle thing going on with this one and not sure I need the extra power)
Honda CB1000R (not sure if I need something this big - if only Honda made something a bit smaller that still looked good)
Any thoughts?
Reliability, easy maintenance and fun to drive would be top requirements.
It was extremely reliable, comfortable for long-distance riding, sounded great, and did everything I asked of it.
The question now is what bike to get...
Seeing as I don't plan on taking long road trips anymore (keeping things to 250km/day max), and riding mostly in the city, I've been looking at the naked bikes.
Yamaha FZ07 (it's supposed to be better than the FZ09? but seeing as it's new I can only buy new ones - not sure I want to pay the premium cost)
Yamaha FZ09 (heard there's a bit of a throttle thing going on with this one and not sure I need the extra power)
Honda CB1000R (not sure if I need something this big - if only Honda made something a bit smaller that still looked good)
Any thoughts?
Reliability, easy maintenance and fun to drive would be top requirements.