Mint '99 VFR Intercepter!

I was getting a free dealer car wash on our pilot and I saw this bike parked near there on the center stand.
I asked and the owner is an employee who was out on a transport.

This thing was clean as the day it rolled off the showroom floor! The swingarm side and chain were brand new clean too!

 

That's a FI 800. The best one to own IMO.

 

Gear driven cams!!

 

Wonderful machine. I sort of miss mine.

 

As someone that's been searching for bikes lately harder than Yukon Cornelius looked for gold...those things are a dime a dozen and going for damn near cheap money lately. I almost picked one up recently but I prefer the 750's myself.

 

I've often lusted for a white '93
The one above is nice, there's a '98 on ADVrider that's possibly even nicer- https://advrider.com/f/threads/vfr-800-1998.1374241/
And yeah, it is amazing how many seem to be out there in that kind of shape after 20+ years. I'd probably have one if you could still get Givi racks for them.

 

I had a 2000...it was yellow. A very fun bike to ride. I really miss it.

 

I still love mine, usually get the best sounding bike award when I ride with others.
Took it to a track day at Nashville SS that Phil Wicks was conducting, he gushed over that bike in front of the whole class. There was a lot of really nice machinery there as it was a fund raiser for the Sarah Cannon Cancer Foundation.
Just cannot bring myself to sell it, may get buried w/ it.

 

BTW it's Interceptor.

 

At this point, what difference does it make?

I had the red, white, and blue 750. Was my first new street bike. Maintenance the way it should be.

 

better yet, VFR

 

In '85 when it made its debut, it was the Interceptor. It said so on the side.

 

83 V45

 

I sit corrected. IIRC, the engine debuted in the Magna.

 

and when you got your first car it was called a horseless carriage

 

Mine was a '66 Malibu Wagon mom drove hot until the block on the 230 inline 6 cracked. It used oil and water, but it got me where I needed to go. Then a '63 Impala followed by a '66 Mustang, I guess that might be a carriage-less horse.

 

Makes for a pretty boat anchor.

 

I believe the Sabre model had it first or shared it as well.

 

It did, in 82, both 750s. The V65 came out in 83. The 1000f Interceptor in 84, the 1000r in 85.

 

I ride my brothers 2000 or 2001 model sometimes. It has the staintune exhaust and makes some sweeeet music.