Honda VFR800 "really" looks like it took styling cue's from 1199/899

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Looks much more like a BMW K1300S sprinkled with some CBR1000RR.

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now that I watched the video, obviously the single sided swingarm screams ducati but they've had that for a while too just not in their flagship sportbikes, and this isn't one. but coming around the corner, the headlights and front fairing DEF look a LITTLE like the Pani's front end. has similarities at a glance.
 
upper fairing shape - similar
headlight nose - similar
air intake position and shape - similar
lower fairing curve (radiator area) - similar
lower fairing side (minimalistic shape) - similar
upper to lower fairing split line - similar
 
Phl said:
upper fairing shape - similar
headlight nose - similar
air intake position and shape - similar
lower fairing curve (radiator area) - similar
lower fairing side (minimalistic shape) - similar
upper to lower fairing split line - similar
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yep. agreed. lol
 
+1 - looks like a Pani to me. It even has heated grips too! I bet it doesn't burn your legs and is easy to pilot at slow speeds in traffic too.
 
I have to say, that thing is pretty ugly.
the design looks like it went backward several generations
 
I do notice a very vague resemblance at some angles. Nothing alarming.
 
centeroff said:
It's not like they haven't done that before, RC51.
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I didn't find the RC51 a copy of the 99X series. It was a racing homologation special (with pretty good production numbers) at a time when SBK rules favored the 1,000 cc twins. The RC51 was Honda's racing answer to the 99X series and a good one at that. No one who was following the series will forget Colin Edward's two world championships on that bike, especially the nail-biting 2002 Imola race that decided that championship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFzjk7vZkY0

The 99X was the far sexier bike, then and now.
 
Stop, you're making me miss my 51! Never should've sold that thing... :cool:

But you're right; the only similarity was a 1000cc 90-degree twin. in the middle. Nothing else even closely resembled the Duc of the day, it was a completely different approach.
 

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