But I
absolutely love me some good straight-cut gear noise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcZcY2oJ-nM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfWq4BiwzSQ
The 5th Generation VFR 800 (1998 to 2001) is the (everyday motorcycle) king of gear-whine with its gear-driven camshafts. All of those wonderful straight-cut cogs mated to each other from the crankshaft up to the four individual camshafts of the V-4.
The VFR800 5th Generation "RC46" engine makes better gear-driven camshaft sounds than the earlier VFR750 engines because it (the RC46) has the camshaft gears mounted on the right-hand side of the engine rather than buried down in between the cylinders.
Too bad that Honda went to chain-driven camshafts in the later generations, 6th Generation and onward.