So the story behind this bike is that I had taken a short 1/2 year hiatus from bikes after a ride up Hwy 9 with some friends on a cool November day. We had a nice pace rolling up Hwy 9 when out of nowhere I was pushed wide in a corner by another rider and had to flat track my FZ 750 for a ways through the gravel/shoulder and then a little grass.
At any rate I missed a telephone pole by inches. It was damm close and that made me decide to sell the FZ and take short break from riding.
So in the summer of 1988 I was checking out bikes with Toren of course and I thought the Honda VFR 750 Interceptor would be a fun bike to ride. Needless to say I walked out of the Cycle Barn with keys in hand.
It never was the bike I had hoped it would be. Slow steering and a little on the heavy side. This bike was good, not great.
I probably put 30 thousand miles or more taking multiple trips to California with it as well as riding it from Seattle to Detroit and scoping out everyback road I could find along the way.
One thing I will say is that it was trouble free and inexpensive to run. I don't think I made a single mod to this bike. Just rode the crap out of it.
The journey back to Detroit made me not want to ride for a while, a long while. A year later I sold it and took another short hiatus before buying my next bike a 1990 Yamaha FZR 1000.
