River roads and tree-lined byways may be a passion among those who ride motorcycles in Ohio, but a wealth of historically significant destinations in the Buckeye State offer lots of reasons to get out and ride. Here we’ll lend you insights about Ohio gems that you’ll surely want to visit.

Turns out they listen to us after all. For years we’ve complained that our European counterparts get all the cool-looking motorcycles, and whenever we try to get them here those requests seem to fall on deaf ears. This holds especially true when it comes to naked sportbikes, which never seem to sell well over here. Not this time. Honda’s CB1000R has already been available in Europe since 2008, and the liter-size sports naked has received positive reviews. For 2011, American Honda reps finally agreed to bring it to the USA.

The VFR’s DNA goes back two decades, to Honda’s earliest V4 racing engines, and continuing through a model line that set new standards for performance, handling and refinement and won countless awards, not to mention a cult following.

The perfect motorcycle doesn’t exist and it never will. The way we see it, this paragon of two-wheeled virtue would be an enchanted motorcycle, one that magically transforms from sportbike to touring rig to downtown cruiser to economical scooter to trail bike to full-on MX machine at the push of a button whenever setting, circumstances and whimsy dictate.

2010 VFR1200F, the long-awaited follow-up to the previous Interceptor.