You lucky bastard!� Congrats on the Viffer, as I've heard 'em called.� You got "the last good one" according to those who live and die by the VFR.� Ever since they gave up the gear-driven cams...
�
My V-4 open meg encounter was on I-85 in Greensboro NC rush hour traffic many years ago.� The guy was not at 14K but he was not wasting time or the bike's ability cutting through traffic.� Awesome, indeed.
�
Enjoy the new ride.
�
Stephen
'89 Pacific Coast PC800 (recently wrecked but still in use)

--- On Fri, 10/21/11, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Technology evolves...( Honda V-4 moto no van content... Friday)
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, October 21, 2011, 10:23 AM

� Always been something of a Moto-head since my first Honda Scrambler 250 in
my high school years.���I recently� revived my '88 Honda Hawk, a very nimble
mid-sized V-twin that I built as a track bike a while back and then stored
away.� I'd forgotten how much fun motorbikes are, both to ride and to mess
around with.���After much fussing with the exotic Keihin race carbs on the
Hawk, I got it running right again.� I rode it out to a new road racing
track that was recently built nearby.� Wanted to go for a test ride and to
see what was going on with this new road course venue.� I put the bike on a
dyno at the track, to get the HP, torque and Air/Fuel ratio readings from
the semi-race motor we'd built but never final-tuned or quantified.� As I
waited for my turn on the rollers, I watched the tech and the bike owner
tuning an almost new� V-4 1200cc Honda Interceptor....and gain 15% hp in 30
minutes with just a laptop.(and the dyno, of course)

���I have always been intrigued by that particular motor, which Honda has
been building for many years(since the '80s) and using in various bikes, in
many different forms..� This V-4 has a very unique sound....I recall seeing
a video of one racing at the Isle of Mann TT with four megaphones for
pipes.....Awesome!���(sorry for the overused adjective, but no other word
comes to mind to adequately describe that 4 open megaphones-sound
at14,000rpms, racing over hilly country lanes in the British Isles)

� Cutting to the chase: After researching the subject, I went to Craigslist
and found one, well used (65k miles, not excessive for a VFR) but in good
shape for <$2k.��