VFR400R a decent bike?

ZedPowered · 7 Aug 2012 at 13:12

About to get the first big bike and have been offered a VFR400R thats been done up. Its a grey import with 42K km's and has been done up by a local bike guru so no problems with the quality of the work. Has has new discs, fluids, chain/sprocket, new brake lines, high spark unit and a kph to mph converter.

Panels are a bit scruffy but thats to be expected from a bike of this age.

My question is if this is a decent bike from a reliability standpoint? From reviews I have read its an incredibly hood bike in the handeling department.

Has anyone here owned one, this is a 93 or 94 model if that helps, and if so was it a good bike for you?

Cheers

ZedPowered · 7 Aug 2012 at 16:09

the insurance is the same as on my cbr125!

just need to finish the mod2 and then sell the cbr for this. and buy some paint for those god awful orange wheels! back to white i think.

ZedPowered · 7 Aug 2012 at 18:57

the tattyness of it wont be an issue, plan to redo all the plastics myself. i'd say 26k miles is fairly low miles for a mid 90's bike.

will be replaced by a ninja 6 at some point when i have a couple of years NCB to lower the cost to a more reasonable level. plus some proper on road experience of a big bike.

4T5 i'm not the smallest but coming from a cbr125 i am sure that size will not be an issue for me!

Yarwood i have done quotes and its the same as my cbr125 with me declaring it an import so no problems there. from reading up on the bike most of the vfr 4's are imports according to various sites.

ZedPowered · 16 Aug 2012 at 14:27

just been and test rode a ZZR600 E2. VFR is pretty much out of the window now. It would be great for a quick commute but no god for my Bristol to London trips. The ZZR seems way more sensible for that. Just need to pass the MOD2 net week....

Anyone had any experiance with the ZZR?