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WOW! Did you listen to the vids? It has veriable intake track length. It shortens at higher rpm for more top end I was displeased, however, that there is no mention of HP. Sounds like and awesome bike though.
They are saying 197 HP and 122 FT lbs of TQ LOL but for 18 K there is alot of old bikes i can bring back from teh dead.
John
79 XS1100SF 750 FD,Galfer Brake lines,ebc brake pads,Cross Drilled Rotors,TKat fork brace,bead blasted wheels repainted and polished
80 XS1100 S Project gonna be a hot rod
06 CBR1000RR sold!!!!!
2000 Concours
84 Kawi KLR600
79 Yam XT500 Ouch it kicks back
79 XR250
Why is it that the smallest part can fly to the farthest part of the shop?
John
That's 197 at the crank... take away probably 15% to get it to the ground. 167 hp is still fairly impressive, but at a bulbous weight of 683 pounds....close to a half ton with me and luggage... it sure isn't going to impress anyone in the turns.
I also agree with Rob that it's not going to impress me much just sitting still either?? lol. To each his own... Somebody did write on one of the forums I read that for the same price, you could get a Kaw ZRX 1400 AND a ZRX 1000 for the same price of just one V-Max! lol.
Tod
Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!
Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still own
Originally posted by Paintman They are saying 197 HP and 122 FT lbs of TQ LOL but for 18 K there is alot of old bikes i can bring back from teh dead.
John
Yeah that kinda loot could make my scoot ...a hoot..LOL...some things i like abt this bike but others things...I dont...overall not a bad effort...but not one thats likely to turn up in my stable but nonetheless this m/c refuses to go away.
with my XS11SG I already have a bike with awesome power and mediocre handling.
OK, so the V-Max power is even more awesome and they may even have improved the handling. But even if I did have a spare $18K the V-Max still has fake plastic nostrils hanging off a real air intake cover pretending to be a fuel tank. Hideous, moronic and ghastly are euphemisms for my real opinion about it's looks.
Fred Hill, S'toon
XS11SG with Spirit of America sidecar
"The Flying Pumpkin"
They were ugly then and they are ugly now. They were fast then and they are even faster now. I would be afraid that beast would sprain my wrists. But I guess I would risk it if someone whats to give me one.
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