It's been a while since we've had a VFR800 come through the shop. The one that was here this week was a 2000 model in need of a 24,000k service. As I started pulling this one apart I got a memory jog of what a pain in the *** it is to get the fuel tanks off Honda's that came out around this period. And the fuel tank had to come off in order to check the valve clearances. It could have been so easy for Honda to have fitted quick release fuel line clips but instead there was this whole procedure where you had to drain the fuel take before undoing the fuel line banjo bolt. In most cases you still managed to get yourself, the bike, the workbench and the floor covered in petrol when you popped off the return line no matter how best you tried not too. There was never an easy or clean way to take the tank off one of these. The rest of the service was pretty straight forward, valve clearances check, throttle bodies balanced, oil and filter changed plus the usual lubing of all the cables and levers. The service gave this bike the ‘new bike' feeling again.