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Re: [St] Behind the Curve? Another take



I think for the longest time the Sprint 955 gave the VFR the run for
their money. It was considered the ultimate sport-touring bike, but
IMHO Honda hasn't done squat in the last five years and is sitting on
their laurels.

Z

On 8/2/07, Masiak, Richard <richard_masiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh, ok.  thanks.
>
> My neighbor just bought one and he loves it.
>
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> [mailto:st-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeremy Witt
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> VFR is the Interceptor.
>
> Jeremy Witt
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> Ok, I'm ignorant.  What's the VFR????
>
> Their Sport Tourer is the ST1300.  In the sport bike section there's the
> Intercepter.  I don't see any current models that are VFR.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:st-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of JES_VFR
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> Subject: Re: [St] Behind the Curve? Another take
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>
> But there are a couple of problems with that.
> 1. Honda is about to kill off the current generation VFR (that I have
> heard several insiders say was a Total Flop)and supposedly has no
> plans to replace it. The feel that the middleweight (750-900cc)
> SportTouring bike niche has dried up. I think part of that is that
> they did not spend the development dollars in the correct places on
> the Vtec edition VFR.
> 2. A lot of current middleweight sporttouring bike owners are not
> looking to by another middleweight bike, they are looking for that
> bigger bike. I know that I am, since going to up with luggage on my
> VFR is a strain and the bigger St bike would solve alot of the issue.
>
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