"VFR1200F is a combination of sports and touring capabilities to premium Indian customers who are actively on a look out for brands that have a high ‘FUN' quotient," Shinji Aoyama, President & CEO, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd, said in a release.
"This fun bike is manufactured at the Honda's most advanced facility & mother plant of global motorcycles - The Kumamoto factory Japan. VFR1200F is a concept driven by extensive customer needs & adoption of state-of-the-art technologies."
According to Honda, its design team aimed at creating an exciting sports bike with long distance touring capabilities. "Imagine deciding, impulsively, to ride 300 km, devouring highways and twisty canyon roads, just to enjoy lunch at a perfect location and then head back home," was their starting point.
The Indian market will now get to experience the VFR 1237cc fuel injected, liquid cooled, compact V4 engine. The V4 engine offers manageability, strong torque delivery and produces more than 90% of its maximum torque (129Nm/8,750 rpm) at 4000 rpm.
The Honda VFR1200F is a bike of many technological firsts. Successor to the legendary VFR800 and Honda's CBR1100XX Super Blackbird in India, this is the first motorcycle with Honda's revolutionary Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) technology.
The unique throttle-by-wire system offers outstanding response & seamless acceleration across the engine's rev range. Needless to say, the radical combination of CBS with ABS links the benefits of ABS with the measured application of front brakes when the rear brake lever is used.
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