Hi from Sunny Scotland

Seeing that this is the VFR world introduction forum, I thought I'll start my first post of here to set the ball rolling & introduce myself.

My name's Stevie & I come from Sunny Scotland, I'd been driving bike's since 2000, starting off with a yamaha dt125r for a few year's until I passed my direct access & got a new 2002 yamaha 600 fazer, which lasted 23 day's before a u turning cager wrote the bike off, I next got a 2nd hand suzuki 600 bandit & rode that for a few year's until 2005 where I treated myself to a new kawasaki z750s & rode the arse off it, last time I checked, I'd done over 45k on it up till 2012, from then I was involved in a bad accident coming home from work one night on the GF's 600 suzuki bandit & I got cut up by a car in the pouring rain, I had to brake to avoid him hitting me other wise he'd have put me into crash barrier's but because of the rain, I went into a tank slapper at 40mph & got launched off in a high sider & the bike went into a concrete wall, needless to say, the car didn't stop.

Because of my injurie's, I was off work for over a year before I was fit enough to go back & when I did, my manager asked me if I'd consider give up using a motorbike for commuting & the fact I was a soon to be father, I agreed but on the condition that if I couldn't get public transport home & I dont have a car licence, then the work would have to get me home late at night if I finished after midnight & he agreed it, at most I only ever claimed it twice for every second week (I work a week of earlie's & a week of late finishes) but recently, my manager said he was pulling my transport agrement so I had to get something sorted so I've decided to get back on to two wheel's & in about a week's time, I'll be picking up my first ever Honda & to make it even more special, I've went with the 2011 VFR800 white Vtec ABS/Combined brake's with the full touring package with side pannier's & a top box & get this, the bike has only done 800 mile's in six year's with a FSH.

here's some pics

 

Nice Stevie, welcome!

 

hello and welcome I am new fairly new here myself,I think the VFR looks great in white and it looks like you have a cracking bike there,how did you find it??

 

Nice bike, from another Scottish owner, white 2016.

 

I was just checking various bike dealers used bike list's & found the bike by accident, phoned the dealer the next day & put a deposit down.

 

Yo Stevie, another Scot. Where Dae ye bide ? Tidy looking bike there mate, welcome to the site.

 

nea where near you with that accent, I'm a weegie

 

Lol, hopefully a few of us can get together at some point for a run.

 

Which part of Glasgow? Used to live in the west end, now in Paisley.

 

sure , once I've got the stabilizer's back off

even tho I used to drive all year (except snow) & racked up a lot of miles,
I've only had a few shot's of other folk's bike's in the last few year's since my previous accident
& I'm starting to feel a bit anxious now about driving the 100 odd mile's from the dealer's to my place !
I'll just need to drive slow

 

You will be fine.

 

well thats me an official VFR owner, picked the bike up yesterday eventually after the DVLA website crashed & I couldn't get road tax for the bike, the salesman at the dealers even drove down to the post office to renew the RT & their system was also down, so the salesman had to come back for cash & go back to the post office again & when the bike was finally released, it was half three in the afternoon & the rain was pissin it down & it was far from sunny, then to top that off, there was diesel spill all the way up the road until I got up to the A road for a fast blast back to Glasgow.

the few things that I noticed about the VFR is that it holds the road well despite its weight, then there's the ABS & dual brakes, I was hesitant initially using them in the wet but the brakes are confidence boosters, then theres the vtec kickin in, boy that was a load of fun, before I knew it I was running at 90mph & the bike was handeling like a charm.

I'd also managed to get a colour coded seat cowl brand new for £60 inc p&p from a bike breaker in ireland so just need to fit it & thankfully I found a vid on youtube on how to fit a seat cowl as there wasnt any instructions with it, my next job will entail fitting a charger for a phone & possibly add a camera or two as it will help if I'm involved in any accidents.

other that that, I'm away back out for another run Vroom Vroom

 

Glad to hear you enjoyed your first trip out on the vfr even in the rain.

BTW I make harnesses that simply clip into the bikes wiring so you can add switched power.

 

thanks Fink, I was looking through one of the other threads about wiring in a charging point into the ignition wire so that looks do able, I also think that i'll be changing the levers as the stock one's are crap though I dont fancy paying £160/$210 for a set of Pazzo's, can anyone point me in the direction of a cheap but decent set of levers ? thanks

 

Welcome, and I suppose Sweden has similar or a bit worse weather than you guys. Spent midsummer in Aberdeen a couple of years ago and it was a good 15 degrees warmer there than in Stockholm

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A new scot from Dundee Try the2wheels.com lots of levers and more pretty reasonable.I just fitted a pair of titanium coloured ones
Been lying in the garage from last year there dead smart and seem like good quality.