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[Poindexter]

the v-rod's revolution v-twin is a modern engine design from porsche, and it hits HARD off the line, but it had nothing on the zed 1k plus i could take the sweeper exit like it was nothing...

I was just being self deprecating as a Harley owner. Its something we tend to do when the issue of quality comes up. It makes it easier to swallow the fact that we overpaid for our bikes with no real tangible reason why.

 

[Fallout-NL]

Every time I open the taps on one of the Buells everything suddenly makes sense.

 

[Drinky Crow]

I was just being self deprecating as a Harley owner. Its something we tend to do when the issue of quality comes up. It makes it easier to swallow the fact that we overpaid for our bikes with no real tangible reason why.

self-deprecating HARLEY OWNER? wtf is wrong with you. AMERICAN IRON UPSIDE THE HEADS OF TWEE GIRLY MEN ON THEY CROTCH ROCKETS!

man, if i had a harley, i'd be insufferable. i was bad enough on the america. with a big ol' hog, i'd offer up regular blip blasts from my cocktail shorties, taunts of GIT A REAL BIKE PUSSY to anyone in track leathers, and rolling burnout starts just because if i buy AMERICAN, I ROLL AMERICAN y'all city-boy pissants! ;-)

if i only had a bigger garage (and no kid). more specifically, if i had ONLY a garage and no other money sinks...

 

[Drinky Crow]

3 o'clock tomorrow.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND 3 O'CLOCK TOMORROW

i'm like a little tweenie bopper waitin' for the biebs. i'm like a fat kid before the friday all-you-can-eat cold stone creamery special. i'm like a redditor waitin' for his first bitcoin to complete and verify. i'm like opiate before a new release of microsoft excel.

DADDY NEEDS HIS V4

NEEDS

 

[Drinky Crow]

by the by, my bike looks like this and not the above. this is what $1500 and 5 hp less looks like. :-( well, and no app to sync lap positions.

 

[blackprophesy]

You're getting that?! I'm jealous. Lovely bike.

 

[Jackson]

by the by, my bike looks like this and not the above. this is what $1500 and 5 hp less looks like. :-( well, and no app to sync lap positions.

Still hawt.

 

[Watevaman]

I will own some v4 bike in my lifetime, just want that damn torque.

 

[Fallout-NL]

I will own some v4 bike in my lifetime, just want that damn torque.

And dat noise.

I might go old school with it though.

Have fun tomorrow Drinky, nothing quite like picking up a new bike.

 

[Drinky Crow]

what're the v4 bikes besides the rsv4/tuono, vfr series, and vmax?

 

[Poindexter]

self-deprecating HARLEY OWNER? wtf is wrong with you. AMERICAN IRON UPSIDE THE HEADS OF TWEE GIRLY MEN ON THEY CROTCH ROCKETS!

man, if i had a harley, i'd be insufferable. i was bad enough on the america. with a big ol' hog, i'd offer up regular blip blasts from my cocktail shorties, taunts of GIT A REAL BIKE PUSSY to anyone in track leathers, and rolling burnout starts just because if i buy AMERICAN, I ROLL AMERICAN y'all city-boy pissants! ;-)

if i only had a bigger garage (and no kid). more specifically, if i had ONLY a garage and no other money sinks...

I'm only that Harley rider in parking lots, in front of hot women and when there are slow people in front of me on the road. Gotta be careful with the shit talking to real bikers though. You can't really make worn compensators and cam tensioners sound cool.

Still cool to pop a boner when your hog sets off 6 car alarms just by starting up. Mmmmm

by the by, my bike looks like this and not the above. this is what $1500 and 5 hp less looks like. :-( well, and no app to sync lap positions.

Jesus. Let me touch it? No? Let me touch you?

 

[Watevaman]

what're the v4 bikes besides the rsv4/tuono, vfr series, and vmax?

The Madura had a V4 and actually made a ton of power/torque if I remember right.

Also, the RGV500 race bike was a V4 2-stroke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V4_engine#Motorcycle_use

 

[Dougald]

what're the v4 bikes besides the rsv4/tuono, vfr series, and vmax?

The ST1100 and the ST1300 have them too

 

[Fallout-NL]

There's the Ariel Ace, but that doesn't really count because it's a Honda engine. There's also that new (is it new?) Motus thing out of the US:

The bike doesn't look super interesting, but this sure does:

http://motusmotorcycles.com/american-v4 - couple of samples of the sound on that page.

 

[maxheadwound]

3 o'clock tomorrow.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND 3 O'CLOCK TOMORROW

i'm like a little tweenie bopper waitin' for the biebs. i'm like a fat kid before the friday all-you-can-eat cold stone creamery special. i'm like a redditor waitin' for his first bitcoin to complete and verify. i'm like opiate before a new release of microsoft excel.

DADDY NEEDS HIS V4

NEEDS

Hope it all goes well for the pickup. That is a damn good looking machine.

 

[Poindexter]

I love riding in the rain.

DRINKY! UPDATE! NOW!

 

[Drinky Crow]

picking the bike up:

home in the garage. STICKER REMOVAL IS HELL. eff you, piaggio usa!

 

[Drinky Crow]

i wanna find the dude who decided putting a warning sticker UNDER the flyscreen was a good idea and punch his italian face

 

[opticalmace]

Damnnn she sexy.

 

[Drinky Crow]

good lord it moves if you just slightly release the clutch with no throttle. i almost put it into my wife's scoot as I didn't expect it to move THAT much, lol

gonna take some ridin' style recalibration to get back into the literbike mode...

 

[opticalmace]

good lord it moves if you just slightly release the clutch with no throttle. i almost put it into my wife's scoot as I didn't expect it to move THAT much, lol

gonna take some ridin' style recalibration to get back into the literbike mode...

Not a litre bike but I test rode a Honda CBR650F and was kind of shocked when it started moving on its own (really moving) when I let out the clutch. I rode in on a 250 though. :lol

 

[Drinky Crow]

my z would idle high -- 3k revs and move off idle with clutch release and no throttle -- but once the engine warmed up the revs would drop to 2k and throttle was required.

i think they may have borked the setup? the clutch doesn't seem to be fully disengaging...? the demo unit i rode prior did NOT do this.

 

[Drinky Crow]

fixed the lurch by adjusting the clutch cable slack. looks like some sloppy setup. i also had a rescrew the starter assembly in tighter on the handlebar.

still rolls forward pretty quickly with no throttle and maybe half clutch slippage, but i'm gonna assume that's the nature of a literbike. (still don't remember the demo bike doing this, and my z didn't unless it was cold and the idle revs were at 3k instead of 2k.)

that v4 exhaust note is a thing of profound beauty.

 

[Poindexter]

My road king rolls forward pretty easily if I let the clutch out barely. I can always take off with 0 throttle. It wasn't that way on my sportster though so it was definitely something to get used to.

How's the suspension? I'd shoot someone if my bike came with a bunch of stickers slapped on it by the way! Video?? I wanna hear her purr!

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

I love riding in the rain.

DRINKY! UPDATE! NOW!

So did I. Being in SoCal, I go some looks.

 

[blackprophesy]

Awesome bike. Congratulations!

 

[Drinky Crow]

i will make a video here. jackson is dropping by to give his seattle shat pack italian bike blessings.

even you harley duders will respect the v4 baritone. it blasts like a mofo, and as stock, no less.

 

[Drinky Crow]

poindexter: one sticker was UNDER the flyscreen. i had to fuckin' remove the top fairing and pull the flyscreen to get it off. that's some sadistic, il duce level shit.

 

[Drinky Crow]

i thought the z1000 was a beast. no, it is tame. this thing is jupiter's shrieking deathcock.

 

[Fallout-NL]

Haha, you do have a way with words.

 

[Dougald]

Hey it could be worse, the warning sticker on my wife's Chinese bike was UNDER the lacquer on the tank. Assholes.

Bike looks fantastic though!

 

[maxheadwound]

picking the bike up:

home in the garage. STICKER REMOVAL IS HELL. eff you, piaggio usa!

Nice looking machine... did a bit of reading about the bike yesterday and its top of the naked class. The guys here from MCN tested it on the road and track and it kicked butt.

Did you ride it home in that rainy weather?

 

[blackprophesy]

Not a litre bike but I test rode a Honda CBR650F and was kind of shocked when it started moving on its own (really moving) when I let out the clutch. I rode in on a 250 though. :lol

How did you like the bike? That's one of the ones I'm seriously considering (alongside Yamaha Diversion and BMW F800R)

 

[Drinky Crow]

Nice looking machine... did a bit of reading about the bike yesterday and its top of the naked class. The guys here from MCN tested it on the road and track and it kicked butt.

Did you ride it home in that rainy weather?

yeah, but i live four miles from the dealer and i commute in the rain all the time. still, new tires = dial up traction control to MAX

 

[Drinky Crow]

god, i swear only cruisers have stock usable mirrors.

 

[blackprophesy]

god, i swear only cruisers have stock usable mirrors.

Not my Iron. All I see is elbow. I might flip them at the weekend and see if that helps.

 

[maxheadwound]

yeah, but i live four miles from the dealer and i commute in the rain all the time. still, new tires = dial up traction control to MAX

Was just checking if you a hardcore biker and not a fair weather rider lol. We will have to get a little walkaround and starting video when you have time

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

"Controversial" lol
Controversial bill would allow motorcycles to pass between lanes

 

[Dougald]

Good for Washington. Filtering through slow or stationary traffic is only dangerous when it's illegal and therefore unexpected. Or when you get that one person who tries to ram you because they're jealous.

 

[richardhawk]

"Controversial" lol
Controversial bill would allow motorcycles to pass between lanes

Awesome. I really hope lane splitting is allowed in every state. It saves me 30 minutes on my commute home everyday.

 

[Watevaman]

I know there's been talk in Virginia for a few years but I don't think we will see anything solid anytime soon. Hope it goes well for the Washington bill.

 

[Poindexter]

Not my Iron. All I see is elbow. I might flip them at the weekend and see if that helps.

It didn't help me when I had my iron. Switching to long stem mirrors can fix it. I got used to just turning my head on my iron

 

[Fallout-NL]

Was just checking if you a hardcore biker and not a fair weather rider lol. We will have to get a little walkaround and starting video when you have time

I'm so hardcore that I actually love my bikes too much

Spoiler

to take them out in the rain

.

I should buy some piece of crap I don't care about, that way I don't hurt so much whenever dirt gets on it.

Did feel good though last december when I went for a ride with my buddy and we were caught in, well, a storm basically. Was nice to just not give a damn. No traction control on the M2 though.

 

[Watevaman]

Just ordered some replacement lapel mics for my Drift Ghost since my old one started breaking. Gonna go home and take the ZRX out on Saturday, so I'm hoping I'll be able to capture some good sound and maybe do a vlog.

 

[Drinky Crow]

I MAED A VIDEO 4 U.

please note: bike is wet AND dirty. i am a REAL MAN.

http://youtu.be/HjDzPXfXopg

note: may still be processing.

 

[Drinky Crow]

by the by, jackson's porsche cayman gts is SICK SICK SICK. how sick? so sick.

 

[blackprophesy]

So awesome! Like the Tiger too - great combo of bikes.

 

[Dougald]

Looks and sounds awesome!

I am jealous of your garage, bloody thing is half the size of my HOUSE. I hate being English sometimes...

 

[blackprophesy]

My garage is so tiny...doesn't help that it's a complete tip. Need to spend some serious cleanup time, and a small fortune on some proper cabinets & tool chest.

My first ride to work in 3 weeks (vacation) and it only decided to start snowing on the way. Still damn enjoyable.

 

[Evo X]

Bike looks and sounds delicious, Drinky.

Can't wait until the weather warms up again. My poor STR has been sitting frozen in the garage for months now.

I need my 2 wheel fix, man!