2010 Honda Fury

[HardDrive]

Damn!

Originally Posted by srandallf

[ramonesfreak]

nice knucklehead



i did some reading and i see now that they branched out and are fabricating a gooseneck frame for export

freakin artists is what they are

[Jeff Higgins]

Too cool, Scott, just too freakin' cool. Zero and Exile really seem to "get it" and do far more with their understated cool than the rest of the pin heads out there bolting together their high end billet bling Evo sleds.

[ramonesfreak]

looks like its out of print now jeff but if you ever see this book

http://www.lastgasp.com/d/26067/

http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~gnl/goods/pictures/main.htm

get it!!!! the book is total bike porn...i love looking at the pictures in this book...nice detail shots of the hand-craft work they do....like hand crafted lighting assemblies that look like they are carved from sterling silver or pewter etc...wild...TOTAL opposite of those orange county guys

there was a time i almost bought an Exile bike (model: The Bar Hopper...looks like a sporty sorta) i dumped the idea and jumped into the sportbike world instead, for now ....ouch my neck

[poorsche930]

I work at a Honda dealer as a finance manager. I've raced motocross most of my life and have owned all japanese bikes since 1986. The fury is the gayest thing to come out of japan since the B-king.

1. Drive shaft. not a smooth running belt. who wants lift and lash?

2. The pipes. You can actually see black on the side that faces the swingarm. Honda if your going to put fake chrome exhaust on something actually cover the whole system.

3. The horrible looking pegs, (passenger pegs too), and shifter.

4. 1300cc enough said. They could have at least put the 1800 in it to compete w/Yamaha's 1900 Raider.

5. The controls are the same as on a shadow 750 and are made from some cheap looking aluminum.

6. BOLT ON simulated cylinder cooling fins even though its liquid cooled. Guess they just needed to have that domestic chopper look once again.

7. This one is a minor but for a bike that looks like this, its fenders are plastic

Just some facts I've noticed in the 4 hours we've had the unit.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by srandallf

I love every single element of this chopper. From the flat bars to the rear tire, it is all there. That short wheelbase and hardtail tells me that it is not the bike for me, though.

Beautiful to look at.

[1967 R50/2]

I give credit to Honda for possibly creating the best cruiser ever: The Valkyrie. ...Way better mechanically and IMO better looking than most of the V-Twin crowd.

Furthermore there was no way anyone could say it was a "Harley Copy".

Unfortunately, they found out the hard way that the average cruiser buyer has a mindset that is stuck on "V-Twin".

In the end you have to make what sells.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Honda strikes me as a company that lacks creativity and vision. ... I have seen no real creativity or imagination from Honda since the original CB750 turned the sport bike world on its ear, and since the original Gold Wing did the same for touring bikes. Yawn.

I'd have to disagree. The styling might not be cutting edge, but there's certainly very neato technology in Honda sportbikes. The CBR900RR ushered in the modern age of sportbikes: liter class power in a 600 cc supersport package. Before the CBR9, you either had a 600 cc bike that weighed 400 dry pounds, or a liter class bike that weighed 500 lbs. The GSXR1100 was some 529 pounds, no? What about the FZR1000, CBR1100, and ZX-11? Big bikes with big motors...and big weight.

Then, along came the CBR900RR. Approaching (though not quite reaching) full liter-class power, but in a 408 lb package. The concept of mass centralization was featured fairly prominently in the Honda philosophy, too. Now look at the R1, GSXR1K, CBR1000RR, etc. And look how the 750 class of sportbike largely has been killed off.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

I think the biggest ripoff right now it the Suzuki Gladius (ghey name).

Look at it compared to a 696 monster:

Check out the MV Agusta Brutale...