Honda VFR800X Crossrunner: Long-term review – part two You know the old adage ‘ya pays ya money ya takes your choice’. For ease of fitting this must be one of the best out there, just 2 bolts – a smear of copper grease (provided) and on she goes, torque up the 2 bolts and we are away.
Proper real world useable fast. The kind of fast that delivers all of the real world speed you’ll ever need the instant you want it. At 5,500rpm in top the VFR pulls an effortless 100mph, add 500 rpm and you’ll gain nearly twenty mph.
Honda’s VFR800 sports tourer has long been one of the marque’s most popular bikes, and with good reason. To leverage that fantastic V4 engine and all-round usability even more, Honda has released the VFR800X Crossrunner, billed as having the flexibility and exciting attitude of a naked performance machine with the upright riding positionJust supposing you bought a new Honda VFR800 in 2001 and ran it for nineteen years, adding 94,000 miles to its bores, in all that time, the average cost would have been 25p per mile for everything including cost of the bike, fuel and tyres used, spare parts, insurance…the lot. That 100-mile Sunday ride would have cost £25, a 3600-mile tour
2012 Honda Crossrunner VFR800X – UK Specifications UK MSRP Price – TBA CDN. Engine Carburation PGM-FI electronic fuel injection Displacement 782cm3 ACG Output 386W Ignition Timing 8° BTDC (idle) ~ 50° BTDC (1200min-1) Sparkplug Type IMR9D-9H (NGK); VNH27Z (DENSO) Battery Capacity 12V/11AH (YTZ-12S) Starter Electric Max.
Price: £3500 - £8000 | Power: 170bhp | Weight: 267kg | Overall BikeSocial Rating: 3/5. Launched with great excitement in late 2009, Honda promised the all-new VFR1200F would be the ultimate sports tourer. Packing a brand new V4 engine (Honda’s favoured configuration) the VFR was destined to replace the ever-green Pan European and provide Wbkt.