Some numbers to start with. The Department for Transport publishes vehicle licensing data by make and model, and the Q1 2026 figures for the VF1000 make interesting reading.
Of 460 VF1000s still registered in the UK, only 58 are licensed for road use. The other 402 are declared SORN — off the road, laid up, being kept.
Two things stand out. The registered total is up 72 since we last looked at this in 2015 — more of these bikes are being kept than ever. But the number actually on the road has fallen, from 86 to 58.
We’re preserving them faster than we’re riding them.
So here’s the idea. There are 58 road-going VF1000s in the UK. Let’s see how many we can get into one thread.
Post a photo of yours and tell us:
which model it is
roughly where in the UK it lives
A muddy one from this morning is better than a showroom shot. Ridden bikes are the point of this - bonus points for a decent mileage on the clock.
If we can account for even half of the 58, that’s a proper record of the surviving road-going VF1000s in Britain, and something worth keeping.
(Figures: DfT vehicle licensing statistics, Q1 2026. “Licensed” means taxed for road use — with the historic tax class many VF1000s now cost nothing to license, so it’s a fair measure of bikes in use rather than of roadworthiness.)
