2010 Honda VFR1200F

Honda's big news for the 2010 model year is the new VFR1200F, a sporty sports tourer that can be had with an amazing new dual-clutch transmission – the first ever on a motorcycle. The VFR has drawn a wide-ranging variety of opinions. Is it a heavy sportbike or a lightweight super-sport-tourer?
It's actually somewhere in the middle, as we found out after riding the VFR1200 on and around the Sugo Sportsland race circuit in Japan. Honda's newest V-4 nestles into a spot between the smaller VFR800 and the more luxurious ST1300. The obvious competitors are the big sport-touring machines we compared in our 2009 Sport-Touring Shootout: the ST1300, Yamaha FJR1300, Kawasaki Concours 14 and BMW K1300GT. But our ride on the innovative Viffer revealed that it is sportier than that quartet.