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Sep 26, 2008 | 04:00 AM

#11

deadeye

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Originally Posted by Babs

$20 says though with the current economy, the Vic bike brand won't hang.. They'll take the eternal celestial dirt-nap (ie. shut down completely). Same with Indian, before they even get off the ground.

I agree. When there were waiting lists for Harley's and people paid more than MSRP it probably seemed like a good idea to start a new American motorcycle company. It doesn't sound like a good idea now.

I've been predicting for years that one of the Japanese big 4 will swoop in and buy the Indian name and slap it on their cruisers. Kawasaki would sell a lot more Drifters if they said Indian on the tank.

Asheville? Cool. AC Reynolds class of 83.

Sep 26, 2008 | 10:27 AM

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King FLH

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I think they bet the farm on that silly looking bagger they came out with last year. I ain't seen but one of em on the road since. And the rest of the lineup looks like a second rate metric. I hope for their sake it snows this year. But even if it does, their snowmobiles suck too. I wouldn't be buying any of their stock.

Sep 26, 2008 | 01:47 PM

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Rabbit_

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Originally Posted by deadeye

I've been predicting for years that one of the Japanese big 4 will swoop in and buy the Indian name and slap it on their cruisers. Kawasaki would sell a lot more Drifters if they said Indian on the tank.

Nope not gonna happen, the Japs had plenty of opportunity to buy the Indian brand if they wanted to and they didn't so I can't see them doing it anytime soon, especially with a depressed market.
A couple of guys I’ve talked with about their Victory’s I found were more anti-Harley then pro-Victory and they don’t want a metric so they ride what’s left.

Sep 26, 2008 | 02:21 PM

#14

extech

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I think competition is always good and it is good that customers have a choice of American bikes. Me...I just don't care for the looks. You'll always see HD guys looking at them at bike nite, but the Victory guys hardley acknowledge us.

Sep 26, 2008 | 02:26 PM

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2wheels4ever

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I just don't like the look of the only Victory I've seen. I think the word is swoopy and it ain't my style. I'll stick with Harley.

Sep 27, 2008 | 02:43 AM

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Just Dave

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Originally Posted by King FLH

I have seen two on the road and one of those was for sale. U.G.L.Y. you aint gots no alibi, yous ugly. yous ugly!

Sep 27, 2008 | 05:20 AM

#17

Prot

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The wheels on a Victory look cartoonish. The fenders are so exaggerated they are like a caricature. And the engine doesn't look quite right, but I can't quite explain it. I had looked at them for a while before buying my Heritage. My thinking at the time was I might get one cheaper than a HD and then I could swap the fenders and the wheels out. Then I thought, at best, it would like like a metric cruiser, and if I wanted that look, then may as well buy a Honda. I am glad I waited until prices came down to more realistic levels and found the right bike for me on ebay last month. I also found the right bike for my dad on ebay and he bought his the day after I bought mine. I've got a 1995 Heritage Softail Classic and my dad has a 1996 Road King Police Special.

Sep 29, 2008 | 09:04 AM

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Babs

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Originally Posted by deadeye

DUDE!!!!
Go Rockets! Class of 87! Small dang world huh!

No joke.. actually I liked the drifters.. if they put something besides a itty bitty 800cc in that thing, it would have been a cool scoot. Actually got passed over the weekend (on 74 no joke) by some scoot with straight pipes which sounded pretty dang good.. Single-pin crank of some kind but it was some metric.. I was pleasantly shocked actually.

Actually, if the metric bikes could get away with NOT being sued everytime they do a plain-jane tear-drop gas tank or one of the fenders happens to have a profile a little too close to an FL bike, then they could make some cool bikes.. They have to make them ugly because H-D sues them when they make them more generically classic which looks too much like a Harley. Sad way to kill good competition I say.

I'd still love to test ride a vulcan 2000 to see what 125 cubes of Japanese twin is like.. I'd have to go aftermarket for both fenders and get rid of the cheap kawa-looking tank emblem though if I owned one. Shooooooo! Ontop of some decent wheels and other.

.. hehehe I can't believe that.. Another rocket in here.. pm me.