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Old March 13th, 2018, 09:39 AM   #38
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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.
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