Appreciate the criticisms. It's easy to glorify them all day long. It's nice to hear somebody being honest. I have a CBR500R and somebody said that the F4i is pretty comfortable for a sport bike, especially for the pillion. My finacee wants to ride this year so I'm trying to figure out whether to buy air cushions or swap the bike.
Don't forget there are 2 versions of this bike. The F-Sport has the classic hard "sporty" Honda seat of the time, whereas the F doesn't. The sport also has different suspension and some engine internals. There's a significant difference in comfort and practicality by all accounts.
I have one, love it. Only complaint is the suspension sag, way too soft. For city riding it's nice over bumps tho. Plenty of power if you ever need it. Good low revs power for a sport bike. Handles well. Very sturdy and reliable bike. Cam chain tensioner goes bad, but otherwise low maintenance for it's abilities. Keeping mine forever
I was thinking about getting an '01, just out of curiosity how tall are you? I'm fairly tall and just wondering about your input on this bike and height.
I'm about 5ft 11", the bike is fairly comfortable and it is bigger than sports bikes of todays standards. I'd say over 6ft3-5 you might feel like you're on a child's bike.
Watched the whole thing and you didn't even wind out the engine?! All the power is up high. How do you review a bike and not even give it full throttle. Smh
Power isn't everything about a bike. I gave it as much throttle as I could on the only bit of straight road. It's an extremely bumpy road so I didn't want to risk writing a friends bike off 👌
@@MotoDragon fair enough, but you don't need to wind it all the way out to feel the power. I also rode a friends f4i and just opened it up for a few seconds to feel the power. It's really powerful up higher in the rev range. Pity you didn't get a chance to experience the bike true power, and that people interested in f4i's will watch this video and think it's a slow bike when it really is very fast and powerful
