This is a fantastic looking VF1000R with low miles! Located in Worcester, Massachusetts is a 1986 Honda VF1000R with 12,513 original miles. The seller makes no mention of maintenance but this bike looks to be in fantastic, original, condition. The only deviation from stock appears to be the Yoshimura exhaust system.
This bike was released during the height of Honda’s love affair with the V-4; it was released to win in production based racing classes worldwide. The R featured carbon fiber reinforced fiberglass fairings, 41mm forks with air assistance and ant-dive, four-piston calipers on floating rotors up front on Comstar wheels and gear driven cams for better timing. However well theses bikes were designed, the engineering did take it’s toll bringing the bike to 524lbs dry. While they failed to dominate production based road racing, they still came out as trick as anything else production produced for the time. Several of these have popped up on Craigslist recently and this one is the best example I’ve seen. Thanks to Joe L. for forwarding us the link. See this prime VF1000R on eBay .
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I have a 1984 VF1000R. You will find that these bikes did not have four (4) piston calipers on the front. They all use two (2) piston floating calipers.
The rear caliper is two pistons , opposed.