 
{"id":4776,"date":"2011-05-26T11:31:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2011-05-26T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:30:09","slug":"honda-vr4-crosstourer-spy-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/2011\/05\/honda-vr4-crosstourer-spy-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda VR4 Crosstourer spy photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honda is developing a new adventure sports bike based on the chassis and engine of the VFR1200F. The concept version of the new bike was shown last year at EICMA show, but now we have the first spy shots of the motorcycle. American magazine Insideline reports the new Crosstourer was spotted somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Called the VR4 Crosstourer, the bike will be powered by the same V4 engine found in the VFR1200F.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4777\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4777\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/2011\/05\/honda-vr4-crosstourer-spy-photos\/w_hondavr4_ct_bp_may11_priddy2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4777\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4777\" title=\"Honda is testing the prototypes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy2-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Honda is testing the prototypes\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy2-500x333.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy2-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy2-140x93.jpg 140w, http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy2-192x127.jpg 192w, http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy2-620x413.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honda is testing the prototypes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Crosstourer also features the six speed auto clutch transmission with three modes: Drive, Sport and Manual. The VR4 Crosstourer will have a tough competition: the <a title=\"2011 BMW R1200GS Triple Black Specifications and Photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/bmw\/r1200gs-triple-black\/2011\" target=\"_blank\">BMW R1200GS<\/a>, the <a title=\"2011 Yamaha XT1200 Z Spec and Photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/yamaha\/xt1200z\/2011\" target=\"_blank\">Yamaha XT1200Z Super T\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9<\/a>, and the <a title=\"2011 Ducati Multistrada 1200 Specifications and Photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/ducati\/multistrada-1200\/2011\" target=\"_blank\">Ducati Multistrada 1200<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4778\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4778\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/2011\/05\/honda-vr4-crosstourer-spy-photos\/w_hondavr4_ct_bp_may11_priddy4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4778\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4778\" title=\"Honda's V4 engine and auto clutch transmission are unique\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy4-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Honda's V4 engine and auto clutch transmission are unique\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy4-500x333.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy4-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy4-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy4-140x93.jpg 140w, http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy4-192x127.jpg 192w, http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy4-620x413.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy4.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honda&#39;s V4 engine and auto clutch transmission are unique<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"2011 Honda VFR1200F Specifications and Photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/honda\/vfr1200f\/2011\" target=\"_self\">2011 Honda VFR1200F Specifications and Photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via <a title=\"Spy Photos: Honda VR4 Crosstourer\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.insideline.com\/straightline\/2011\/05\/spy-photos-honda-vr4-crosstourer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Insideline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honda is developing a new adventure sports bike based on the chassis and engine of the VFR1200F. The concept version of the new bike was shown last year at EICMA show, but now we have the first spy shots of the motorcycle. American magazine Insideline reports the new Crosstourer was spotted somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Called the VR4 Crosstourer, the bike will be powered by the same V4 engine found in the VFR1200F.<a style=\"white-space:nowrap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/2011\/05\/honda-vr4-crosstourer-spy-photos\/\">&ensp;Read the full article &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1057],"tags":[3221,31,3219,3218,3220,279,3223,3222],"class_list":["post-4776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bikes","tag-crosstourer-spy-photos","tag-honda","tag-honda-crosstourer","tag-honda-vr4","tag-honda-vr4-crosstourer","tag-mbikebrandhonda","tag-vr4-crosstourer-spotted","tag-vr4-spy-shots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/w_HondaVR4_CT_BP_may11_priddy2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4792,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions\/4792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}