New Honda 1200 V4 CrossTourer!!!

Why, oh why, is this bike not offered in the states? Seems like the perfect bike for the growing adventure touring market.

The CT is one of those bikes that you need to live with for a while to really appreciate. I've owned mine for a year and a half and I love it! The engine gets better with more miles on the clock, it's very cheap to run for a performance bike and it's typical Honda in that it is very reliable, user friendly and easy to live with.
Turn off the traction control and give it a big handful of throttle and the front wheel rises and you are launched to the horizon at a very rapid rate!

Nice!

1-866-784-1870 then 0 for customer service, then "other topic". Someone will ask for your VIN, just explain you want to ask for Honda to bring it HERE.

They will ask for an email address confirmation and a phone number. Probably to prevent multiple votes (maybe they've heard from me too many times).

If their customer service is like their technical service for shops they will record verbatim for the record. So be sure to quote our own PaulVT1:

"Honda USA are bloody idiots for not offering it across the pond".

Cheers Paul. Bit of noise ticks the character box for me. I had the can bought before the bike.

Although with a touring screen on, the airbox honk nearly drowns out the zorst. High gear, sub 2000rpm, big throttle opening and the thing blats away with sounds that make me smile. Job jobbed!

I was impressed with the blat i had on one last week. I've seen a '13 plate DCT in Yorkshire that would cost me about £1500. I'm tempted..

Even I would buy one for £1500. Go for it!

I'm still keeping my powder dry for the BMW S1000F - but if that doesn't work out - i'll happily go for a DCT Xtour.

Explain the 1500?? :huh Total price? Or by trading in and upgrading?

Trade in from my VFR to the XTour.

If i could get them for £1500 i'd buy a shitload and export to the states..

Yeah sorry, I had a brain lapse there But it wasn't clear from the context.

Looking at a second hand one next saturday myself... If the price is right... The bike is made for me. I was at the local dealership a while ago looking at the 1200 vfr and that bike is also just shy of perfection for me. Like a k1300s but then reliable and well built...

Sadly they JUST missed the mark with the 18l fuel tank. Make it 21,5 like the xtourer and the vfr is a home run for me. Even being tall as I am, I think I could be comfortable on a VFR 1200. But the fuel capacity just kills it for me

Next years International Crosstourer (& Varadero) meeting will be held in the south of France, near Milau.

This years meeting in Geiranger, Norway, was simply SUPERB.

Check www.vci-forum.com for updates.

Took mine for a spin to the goldfields this weekend..

Gonna get wet...





Destination Coolgardie...



Why?

Why do you hang a microwave in the middle of nowhere?



1300k's two days and I'm still able to walk. Fill, ride, repeat!

Good shots..

The Honda faithful that loved the 90d V4 all feel the same way.

I had the '12 VFR1200, and it's a midrange beast with a wonderful engine.
You just can't get stuck in the trap of wanting it to sound like the gear driven cam 90d motor.... instead, think of it as a big-bang motor with crank offsets that provide balance and stump pulling grunt from down low.

I had a gear driven cam 90d VFR - great bike.
The 1200 V4 is a different kettle of fish - they didn't ruin anything, they came out with something new and fantastic.

I wish we got the Crosstourer in the states - but Honda is going to be licking their wounds from warehouses full of VFR1200's for years...

Fast food?

My next bike.
DCT of course

I'm still on the lookout for one. DCT's are rare here..

During my trip by the Alps I had the opportunity to discover this amazing road.

took both my bikes on the annual border run,mate rode the 500X

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