Is this in the correct place?

Whenever I look at my VFR I always think it's pretty-much perfect except for this visible (breather?) hose. There isn't enough slack to move it up or down out of the way. From browsing Instagram etc, I've seen it on a couple of other VFR's but not many.

VFR800 VTEC breather hose by Paradroid posted May 11, 2022 at 9:42 AM

 

Checked photos of my three previous 6gens and none were like your photo.
Fuel tank breather hose, try tucking it down behind the frame rearwards, or raise the tank and see if you can route it over the head cover.
If you don't have enough slack, remove your RH fairing and check the hose routing, it may simply be pulled too far down underneath the bike or jammed somewhere. Service Manual will show the correct routing for the hose. Should be an easy fix.

 

Brilliant thank you, good to know it's not normal. I'll do as you say and take the fairing off for a proper look. There's a joke in my house that I wanted a faired bike but the bike spends half it's time without it's fairings (been busy with various maintenance tasks). Was definitely worth the time to make cardboard template to hold the bolts!

 

Got round to looking at this lastnight. I am a bit unsure about what the official route is for this air vent is, even after looking at the service manual and a few photos of VFR's with the right fairing removed.

The problem is that the gap between the frame and the rear bank cylinder head is too small for the pipe to pass through. So it either has to go above or below. Above and it's visible with all the fairings back on. I disconnected the pipe and went for below, but it was quite fiddly to thread it below the cylinder head and then up the inside of the frame to meet the joint at the tank. Done though and looks much better. Needed the fairing off for this as expected.

This pipe sure does take a long route round the bike, down the right hand side, across the bottom near the oil filter and back up again. Feels like there should be a shorter route!