Sunday night the bro in law shows up with a 04 Warrior sporting a wicked yellow and black flame paint job and a pair of loud shorties. I check the bike out and find kinda cool. Sliding upstairs, I quickly change in to jeans and shoes, grab my helmet and come out of the house with a grin on my face. He tosses me the keys with a curt "dont wreck it". I cruise around for a few block to get thing dialed in. Not used to foward pegs and shifter or the wide handle bars. I found it handled pretty fair for such a big beast. Seems pretty strong on acceleration to. With my confidence heightened, I head for the interstate. A long right hand sweeper on-ramp, I nail it. What I was meet with was quite a rush of acceleration. I kept it nailed trying to focus on the sweeping LCD tach, not easy. I shift when I think the engine is starting to protest to much. The analog speedo easily clears 125-127 as I smack the fifth and final gear. Aside from the wind blast from not being able to tuck down on the tank, the ride was stable as a train. Running out of road I back off and roll into another, off camber, right hand off-ramp, again no surprises. This thing will flat haul ass, stop on a dime and handles quite well. I would change handlebars and move the pegs, but all in all a very impressive scooter. This is NOT your daddys V-Twin I cruise back to house at more sedate speed, slide up to house, shut er down and toss em the keys. "Its a five speed" I say with a grin since he had not had it past 4th gear and did not know if it had 5 or 6 gears. Soon as the new clutch is in the 80g, we gonna have to go see whose got what. Will keep you posted.
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I have a midnight Special and really looked hard at the midnight warrior..."If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
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I had a drive on a vtx. I actually run it against my old xj1100, just about equal all the way up to 190ks,then the vtx blew my xj away . i topped the vtx out at 210klm per hr or about 130 mph it felt real comfortable at that speed. Never tried the warrior so no comment on it but i liked the vtx it was bone stock...........MITCHDoug Mitchell
82 XJ1100 sold
2006 Suzuki C90 SE 1500 CC Cruiser sold
2007 Stratoliner 1900 sold
1999 Honda Valkyrie interstate
47 years riding and still learning, does that make me a slow learner?
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