New Motorcycle Models

New motorcycles - many riders are fascinated with rumors, speculation, and hard facts about upcoming models. We help pour gasoline on the fire -- when we find information about the upcoming new models, we add it to our collection for your speculative pleasure. Please see the links section below - they contain our growing list of news, gossip, and rumors about new motorcycle models. If you have anything you'd like to see added, let us know and we'll check it out. If you have a suggestion for improvement, leave a comment or contact us.

2008 Honda Motorcycle Models

What's up with the 2008 Honda motorcycle line-up? What is Big Red going to do to turn up the volume and up the ante?

Rumors abound, so I'm going to try to summarize some of the ones I've encountered while surfing the web.

2008 Honda VFR details revealed in a patent document?

Details of Honda’s 2008 VFR1000 have been revealed in a newly published motorcycle patent document – which shows the motorcycle to have a radical new frame design.

The Honda V-four sports tourer motorcycle, which gets a capacity boost to 1000cc for next year with an all-new engine, features a two-piece chassis, with separate front and rear sections. The engine itself provides the majority of the motorcycle's frame strength.

Source: 2008 Honda VFR revealed in new motorcycle patent (motorcyclenews.com)

There is still some hope for a V-Five VFR variant, apparently :

The patent also reveals that Honda hasn’t yet ditched the idea of a V-five engine, as one picture shows the same frame design with a five-cylinder motor bolted in place of the V-four.