For the people who upgraded, show your SH replacement.
 

Here is mine. what did you guys replace the SH with. I miss mine.... a little, not much.
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I love that exhaust!

me too

sexy bike....too bad it isn't a twin......good lookin though!

That's not an upgrade.

Here were my upgrades:

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I still miss the Superhawk.

Not really an upgrade... more of an enhancement! :) Still have the Hawk and Interceptor.

Nice looking bike, but did they kill you on insurance?

insurrance is the same.

now that's a good insurance company! I've got Geico for $14/month on my Hawk, but I figured an R1 would run it up a bit...

I pay 45$ a month for the R1 and that includes comp, collision and medical, basically a full coverage plan. But I am about to drop the medical since I just got medical insurrance thru my wife and my payment should be around 30$ a month.

we don't have Geico in Michigan.

You're not missing much

according to my agent, cc's is the only thing that matters.. so a R1 = same as SH = same as 76 harley sportster.

azzkiker: Nice bike!! What year is it and what kind of undertail is that

Iazn: who's your insurance company? so they work with people who have a few "Youthful Indiscretions" on their driving record?

Wtf are you talking about?!?!??!?! My Firestorm IS the upgrade!

Yeah, i'm a newbie. (shrug)

:p

cc's enter in to it but when I was shopping for a new ride back in '04/'05 some of the bikes I was looking at like the V-Max 1200cc was a lot cheaper than the SH, 919 and VFR I was considering in NY for me (35 yo ) with a good record... I'm sure it varies from state to state, bike model, rider age company, etc... all enter into the cost.

My Hawk replacement...

I know with State Farm in Oregon, it's more than CC's that matters. Muuuuuuch more. To insure an R1 with them here is going to cost an arm and a leg, because half the motorcycling population has one and thus there are more wrecks and insurance claims. I pay $40/year (yes, year) for my 'hawk with full coverage, mostly because there just aren't that many of them, so not many insurance claims.

I think, in the end, it's more of an insurance company decision and how they want to look at a bike, whether based off of CC's, actual statistics, or a bunch of other things. Definetly something to shop around and ask lots of questions for.

Bought a Suzuki, and tracked it out, keeping the Uberhawk for street use. :headbang:

Still a Honda, still a V:

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Puuuuurrdy Girl!!!

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Just curious if anyone has any experience with a TL1000R - I pulled the money out of the bank this weekend, but it just wan't as clean as the guy said it was. I wouldn't get rid of the SH, but what the hell, it might be fun to have both.

I use Progressive Ins and have no issues. I added a 2003 twincam softail to my SuperHawk policy and the annual premium went up by a mere $59.00

I think there's at least one thread on the TLR vs the Superhawk.

https://www.superhawkforum.com/forum...=TLR+Superhawk

Took three seconds of searching.

I really like the look of that bike!!
You done good.
And I'll bet it'll pretty much go wherever you want.

Here is my upgrade. Don't laugh until you tried it. I made a 800 miles round trip from Portland to Plush OR. on this thing. I miss the nice running V twin power but I also really like the 75 MPG in town this thing gets.

now thats an upgrade

and this is just fuqin awesome!!!!

This was my '98...
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I replaced it with this beautiful '04 VFR800
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Which was recently replaced by this...
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If I was willing to spend the money to purchase, insure and maintain two or three more late model bikes, one of them would be an I-4 SS literbike for sure. But I wouldn't trade my VTR for one.

There's no one bike I'd rather have than the VTR. The fact that I was able to buy mine new for barely half the price of a new R1, 10R etc. is just icing on the cake.

Here's MY other girl...'cept it's a boy...name's Buster.
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Here is my replacement:

Well it would be, if I could find a way to put a picture in. What am I doing wrong? I've tried hosting sites, pasting Word documents with imbedded photos. HOW DO YOU DO IT?

Anyway. I have a 2006 Specialized Enduro, with Fox coil suspension front and rear.

I never thought I’d be a downhill mountain bike rider, but what a hoot! It goes uphill really well too.

Doug, I love that VFR. Of all the bikes here, yours makes me drool. I’ve wanted that V-4 for a while now. Maybe an older one, before the nose got so big and gaudy.

Thanx man. It is an 04 and that's a Hotbodies exhaust. Sounds badass too, especially at 13000 rpms.

Nice bike.

i am sure you would if the R1 cost as much as you sold the Superhawk.

hey don do you miss the hawk I have been looking at the RC myself for an upgrade. Is it really that much more uncomfortalbe? how tall are you?

Let`s see, I am keeping my VTR as I have a new job which allows me to ride and test other people`s bikes, so... Besides, I have enough invested in it now that I could never hope to get it back. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it runs SO DAMN FINE!!!!

Here are recent pics. The only thing missing are the new (to me) PVM wheels but those will likely wait until the Spring.

State Farm, clean record.. Something to do with AZ insurance laws... They literally didn't want to know what kind of bike it was in giving me the quote till they needed to fill out the paperwork to send me the proof of registration. CC's is all that mattered.

AZZKIKER;

"...sure you would if the R1 cost as much as you sold the Superhawk."

I'm sure that is true for lots of VTR owners, but not for me. Sure, for the ten or fifteen percent of my riding that is tearing through mountains and canyons, the R1 is a much more capable bike.

For the 85%-90% of my miles which are scooting around town or sport touring, I'd much rather have the VTR. I'd love to have an R1 (and a few other bikes) in addition to, but not in lieu of the VTR.

Look, there's two kinds of guys riding VTRs; Those who really want a 1098, R1, gixxer thou etc., but bought a hawk 'cause it was the hottest bike they could afford at the time.

Then there are guys like me who could afford to buy pretty much any bike they want and really wanted the VTR in the first place.

well put. You are right. In town, I miss the VTR but as soon as I hop on that R1, man, my grin gets bigger an bigger everytime.