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Mal
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PostPosted: 08:35 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Which bike was it? Reply with quote
I had a bike sat behind me in traffic the other day, and I can't work out what it was. It sat behind me for a while and then filtered past (too quickly for me to see the make/model) when I stopped in traffic at lights. It was fully faired, with twin separate round headlights (one of the reasons I took particular note, not very common on faired bikes) and I saw it had twin high level cans when it stopped at the lights ahead of me. Anyone any ideas?

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PostPosted: 10:19 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 10:34 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
What type of bike was it, sports, enduro etc....

and what colours?
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Mal
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PostPosted: 15:58 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bike was new (less than 2 years old), sports/sports tourer styled and all in black. Confused
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PostPosted: 16:10 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Re: Which bike was it? Reply with quote
Mal wrote:
It was fully faired, with twin separate round headlights (one of the reasons I took particular note, not very common on faired bikes) and I saw it had twin high level cans when it stopped at the lights ahead of me. Anyone any ideas?


More details please, sound, shape of rear light to number plate, tyre width....
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PostPosted: 16:55 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sounds like an SP1 or 2

https://www.bikepics.com/pictures/245134/
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PostPosted: 17:29 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Honda vrf800 i'd guess, twin high levels, and round headlights (allbeit behind a sculpted plastic lens)

https://www.motorsm.com/AUS/bikes/pics_moto/Honda_VFR800_2005_RRHL.jpg

And the rear...

https://www.fullgaz.co.il/tests/2006/vfr800/bar/tn3.jpg

Could possbibly have been a Triumph, i forget model the name, but they're like a pan euro in silhouette, and you don't see many around.

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PostPosted: 17:34 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
probably the triumph speed triple, they do sound like v-twins.


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Jack_Cheese
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PostPosted: 17:36 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mal wrote:
Bike was new (less than 2 years old), sports/sports tourer styled and all in black. Confused


To me, that kind of rules the Speed Triple out...

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PostPosted: 17:39 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
yer, i was thinking VFR too...
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Mal
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PostPosted: 17:49 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pte1643 wrote:
Sounds like an SP1 or 2


I think we have a winner, the SP-2 in black, headlights looked round from a distance and the exhausts are steeply sloped to give a high level look from behind. Cheers!

https://www.honda.co.uk/mcStatic/en/picture/product/VTR1000_SP-2/full02.jpg
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PostPosted: 17:59 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mal wrote:

I think we have a winner, the, headlights looked round from a distance and the exhausts are steeply sloped to give a high level look from behind. Cheers!


Could have also possibly had after market Hi-level pipes. But the standard ones do exit fairly high anyway... Wink


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PostPosted: 18:02 - 23 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jack_Cheese wrote:
Mal wrote:
Bike was new (less than 2 years old), sports/sports tourer styled and all in black. Confused


To me, that kind of rules the Speed Triple out...

Jack


Plus the fact that it was fully faired.
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PostPosted: 08:09 - 24 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mal wrote:
I think we have a winner, the Honda SP2


I would have said that straight away but you didn't say the headlights were angular. Rolling Eyes
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Mal
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PostPosted: 11:30 - 24 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
killa wrote:
I would have said that straight away but you didn't say the headlights were angular. Rolling Eyes


The headlamps themselves are actually round on the SP-2, just set into a shaped recess

https://www.honda.co.uk/mcStatic/en/picture/product/VTR1000_SP-2/full01.jpg

and seen froma distance with the lights off, all I could see was the actual shape of the light itself.
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