FS: VFR V-TEC

My brother's selling his VFR. Details are:

Blue 2002 VFR 800 V-TEC.
Art race cans / custom made stainless link pipes.
Power Commander
Double bubble screen
K&N Filter
Scottoiler
11 Months tax
Full service history
New brake pads & tyres
Datatag / alarm / Oxford immobiliser
7600 miles.
Mint condition.

£6250.00 ono (No cash = no test ride)

Located in Mid Wales

Email russell.kempREMOVE#THIS#

 

My brother's selling his VFR. Details are:

Why is he selling it?

 

He doesn't really use it much anymore. He recently finished restoring a
Vincent Comet, & uses that most of the time. He's probably going to get
a Tiger to replace the VFR so he can make the most of all the snotty
mountain roads & forest tracks near where he lives.

 

In reality, you're not going to go that much faster on the 'snotty
mountain roads' on a Tiger than you are on a VFR - the only thing I can
see in the Tiger's favour is visibility - however, if the VFR has ABS,
then I'd take the VFR any day over a Tiger for those gravelly, muddy
roads. A Tiger is also going to be pretty useless on forest tracks. Much
as they present an 'off roader' image, they're not really an off-road
bike.

 

It's not about going faster, it's about enjoying the ride. The soft
suspension, steering lock & leverage all make big trailies a lot easier
to ride & more fun on a single track mountain road. Having said that, I
have to disagree about not being much faster on that type of road.

That, with all due respect, is bollox! Tigers are superb on forest
tracks, & perfectly useable on stuff a lot worse. Of course they're not
in the same league as a proper enduro bike, but they're far from
useless; I wouldn't own one if they were!
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/preston.kemp/tiger/

 

Steve, your turn.

 

If I must.... I've taken all sorts of bikes into silly places - last one
I did that kind of 'soft-roading' with was a Divvy 600......

I still wouldn't choose a monster traillie for that kind of thing, as
they're too heavy and tall for my stumpy legs. I can cope with tall, but
not with heavy at the same time.

 

(SteveH) wrote

Fair enough. It's not that I know anything about it, you understand. I just
thought the photos of a Tiger in (allegedly) wholly inappropriate
surroundings was a nice touch. Although, thinking about it, we have no
actual proof it wasn't craned in.

 

Agree with that 100%, if that's the main reason for having the bike,
hence the XR in my sig. But if you want something you can pop down to
Valencia on one weekend for the GP, explore some of the unclassified
Pyrenean roads on the way back, then go for a blast on the tank tracks
on Salisbury Plain or Welsh forest tracks the following weekend, a big
trailie's your only choice. The weight can be a total bitch off-road
though, & when it starts to go over there's no way I can stop it, being
a 5'8" weakling :-\

 

Lol I suppose I went to work with a paintbrush & a bucket of mud before
taking the photos too ;-)

I may be taking a BBC reporter out trailriding on the pillion soon as
part of the campaign to save greenlanes, so maybe you'll get to see a
Tiger in the wild on TV, unless I drop the bike on him...

 

Ahem - Mr H...

It was only a couple of weeks ago that you were proclaiming in this
very newsgroup that the VFR wasn't suitable for the small back roads
where you live...

You were easily convinced that it's fine weren't you?

 

Not at all. I hate riding those kind of roads on the VFR, and I'm not
convinced a big road-biased traillie would be any better. F650 or
something would be ideal, though.

 

People in glass houses ...

 

....*rock*!

 

Gentle Giant

 

sweller wrote

I heard today that Sabbath are reforming. A sad commentary on the value
of yer modern pension schemes and no mistake.

 

Oh shit. I take it that this is somewhere I need to go, yes?

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Which one?

 

I thought that but cba to google. I've my doubts about Ozzy.

 

I thought the Bill Ward popped his clocks not so very long ago. But I
appear to be wrong.