Where: Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Why: Yard sale price
Price: $4900 buy-it-now or make offer
As values on first-year VFR1200s continue their slide to oblivion, the resulting buyers' market is creating some great opportunities.
Located near Washington, D.C., this example looks to be a clean and straight bike with some desirable mods, including a go-fast slip-on muffler, Corbin seat, HeliBars bar risers, and Z-Bomb timing retard calibrator. FYI, the Z-Bomb is a simple and inexpensive plug-in electronic device whose job is to simply fool the ECU into thinking the bike is in a higher gear when in first or second. Honda (and others) intentionally retard the timing (to lower power) in first and second gear in an effort to save us from our power-hungry selves. Showing 12,820 miles, the seller claims "excellent condition." Tempting, no?