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Harley1
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| Posted 3/17/2008 7:50 AM (GMT -8) |   | | Concept motorcycles often remain in ink and paper form, but the wild V-Rex cruiser leapt off the page and into production and now MotorcycleUSA takes a ride. Read Adam Waheed's 2008 Traverston V-Rex - First Ride Article and give us your impressions on the creative cruiser. | | Back to Top | | |
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GAJ
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| Posted 3/17/2008 10:47 AM (GMT -8) | | Really was not expecting that thing to weigh less than 700 lbs and actually be rideable.
With the promised 1.5 increase in ground clearance, the thing might actually be rideable!
Amazing.
Not my cup of tea, by a long shot, but amazing. | | Back to Top | | |
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GAJ
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| Posted 3/17/2008 6:08 PM (GMT -8) | | | | |
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GeoffG
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| Posted 3/17/2008 8:41 PM (GMT -8) | | Interesting--weird--bike! I'd like to just try it out for fifteen minutes (in a straight line...)
satyride said... I guess I've just seen to many bikes these past 50 years of riding.
Like this?? I ain't never seen or heard of anything like this one.
satyride said...
This has a Yamaha (and others) type front suspension from the 1990's..that never went over.
No, it doesn't--not even close! The Yamaha GTS1000 you're thinking of used hub center steering (also used by Bimota, Vyrus, and Tryphonos)--the V-Rex front end is something else again (the whole swingarm pivots, not just the hub).
satyride said...
A stupid softail shock set up(joke?),a gross weight (lets use composites and get a 650 lb. target weight) much too heavy restricted handling because of fashionable "phat " tire>that's what makes it stand up in curves you morons...basic physics.
The rear shock setup is not a joke, far from it--Buell used a similar setup on their tube-frame models, and have you ever seen the rear suspension setup on a Britten?
I agree, the bike is heavy, and the super-wide tires are there for image only--but note, even in the text it is admitted the V-Rex is not intended for strafing the twisties. Some of us can be interested in a bike even if it's not necessarily anything we'd ever own.
Post your opinions, sure, but before you go off calling all of us "morons," and spouting off about "basic physics," you might first want to ask yourself if you're gonna make a fool of yourself.Post Edited (GeoffG) : 3/19/2008 4:59:42 AM GMT | | Back to Top | | |
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AdamW79
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| Posted 3/17/2008 9:56 PM (GMT -8) | | Well Geoff, the great thing is that you actually can... if your ever in the Southern California area, the folks @ WeRentMotorcycles.com will rent it out to ya... not a bad method of touring the city in my opinion.
GeoffG said...Interesting--weird--bike! I'd like to just try it out for fifteen minutes (in a straight line...)
satyride said... I guess I've just seen to many bikes these past 50 years of riding.[/qutoe] Like this?? I ain't never seen or heard of anything like this one.
satyride said...
This has a Yamaha (and others) type front suspension from the 1990's..that never went over. No, it doesn't--not even close! The Yamaha GTS1000 you're thinking of used hub center steering (also used by Bimota, Vyrus, and Tryphonos)--the V-Rex front end is something else again (the whole swingarm pivots, not just the hub).
satyride said...
A stupid softail shock set up(joke?),a gross weight (lets use composites and get a 650 lb. target weight) much too heavy restricted handling because of fashionable "phat " tire>that's what makes it stand up in curves you morons...basic physics. The rear shock setup is not a joke, far from it--Buell used a similar setup on their tube-frame models, and have you ever seen the rear suspension setup on a Britten? I agree, the bike is heavy, and the super-wide tires are there for image only--but note, even in the text it is admitted the V-Rex is not intended for strafing the twisties. Some of us can be interested in a bike even if it's not necessarily anything we'd ever own. Post your opinions, sure, but before you go off calling all of us "morons," and spouting off about "basic physics," you might first want to ask yourself if you're gonna make a fool of yourself.
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satyride
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| Posted 3/18/2008 6:35 AM (GMT -8) | | OK,guys you win I am a LUCKY fool. From the poorhouse in 1942 to a trust funded investment banker worth (??? in EUROS) I just have no sense of or direction or value.My mistakes are many , my values ancient, I can't spell because secretaries take dictation and I can't type.I just hate poseurs and the creeping hype for a non-starter, when so many positive transportation issues exist today.We do need new ideas, bikes, scoots, everything but not a waste of fuel. Guys ...where are you going in America.?..traffic up your nose, stoplight to stoplight,poorly skilled drivers who are unaware with windpws up/A-C on, Ipods blasting, a big Mc in the mouth,we are looking out for our lives.The wisdom of age is to see the river not the water.Act accordingly, do not fall for the BS in moto mags, They are pimps for the trade.Do you want a bike (NON H-D) that declines so rapidly in value because the dealer can't give a real value trade in price because his obligation is to buy next years models for his bonus quota?Get real, learn what real value is. Your maleness will not enlarge or women jump your bones just to ride your chrome chariot. You are not Rossi. If you try to ride like him on the streets you are a fool. Slow down, enjoy life, plan ahead, do not be sheep 
THE SATYR makes the/ and lives by the ....RULES...his own | | Back to Top | | |
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GAJ
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| Posted 3/18/2008 10:03 AM (GMT -8) | | So satyride, with all them thar euros, give us a list of the vehicles in the garages on your estate.
Start with your bikes. | | Back to Top | | |
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GAJ
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| Posted 3/19/2008 10:17 AM (GMT -8) | | Ian, it sure ain't beautiful, the fact it even can be ridden is amazing. Your description is funny and apt.
Satyride, what are your rides, (when you're not in 420 mode, that is). | | Back to Top | | |
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satyride
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| Posted 3/19/2008 7:17 PM (GMT -8) | | Offshore in storage at various apartments, flats etc are bikes of many marques. The story is pre -EU,I could buy without VAT if I left that country before 90 days...so prior to that date I would leave ,cross borders , stamp Passport, spend a weekend , re-enter , get another 90 days. After EU ,I had to get someone in my firm with the proper license( motor size) to buy the bike , pay the VAT, get insurance , I would get insurance too, and have an attorney draw a document to show it was my money that paid for the bike so the named owner could not sell it if he/she were fired from the firm.Now as if that isn't a big enough ass pain..think about when I moved to another country and could not take the bike with me because it wasn't in my name and if the titled owner sold it to me ..another VAT plus 90 days only in the new country..so why is that a problem you ask.....AH SO, with the new EU ,in most of Europe now..they don't stamp or check at border crossings my 90 days are terminable, I do bring H-D from USA and sell on private market.Also the USA tags keep the noise police off my ass as they do not ticket me if the pipes are too loud..So I keep the euro-bikes in storage until a buyer comes along.DON"T ASK.....I don't want to ship them home (USA) my health is questionable,and I do not want my sons aged 32-25 learning to ride..it is not safe here in FL.,it has been 2 years in a row written up as having the worst drivers in America, the #1 fatal intersection in America is 12 miles away. If I had not started in 1958...no way. I just went down (#10-12)2 weeks ago when a woman jumped into my lane to make a left arrow turn..Fortunately I was at 3-5 mph and only road rash-ed my skin..I do not always wear a lid..(IDIOT) saying to myself how I am so careful and cushion my distance, watch, expect the unexpected...BS(that's why they call them accidents) between singles, cafe racers,mopeds.scoots, scramblers, hare/hound bikes, motocross racers,adventures,hacks, 14" over -chromed out-EZ riders in hardtails, and UJM, sport tourers, one Boss Hoss, an Indian or three.....other shit pieces ..I ride a few today that are suitable to a 66 yo man not testing his skills and hoping he will get home in one peace/piece..never impaired( can't chance it)But with an Ipod if suitable,usually a bagger.Picking up some milk.But I ride 15-20,000 miles a year.
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GAJ
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Racer1
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| Posted 3/21/2008 10:04 AM (GMT -8) | | I'm not sure which is more self important, overblown and pretentious - Satyride's posts or that butt ugly, cartoonish "bike".
Bikes / People - when you start to value form over function, BS over reality, I tune out... | | Back to Top | | |
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