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Tourer
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Prairie City, IA United States | My wife and I spent the day riding with a friend of our who bought a new CCT in May. My wife on her CR and his wife who is just learning to ride on a 950 Star. We rode about 200 miles taking our time before coming home and having a good steak on the grill.
My friend has spent quite a bit of money on exhaust and fuel controller to make his bike "perform better". He had the trunk removed. I am bone stock on the Vision. I have a local prairie trail near where we live so we traded bikes and rode out to the park and back on the windy hilly road with a 35MPH posted speed limit. We didn't exactly follow the speed limit signs though Probably rode a little harder than we should have.
When we got back to the house he made the comment that the Vision felt like it had much more power than his and I had to agree. I think in a head to head drag race the Vision would run away from him.
I was thinking about adding a controller but I may rethink this and buy chrome instead. |
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Iron Butt
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Broken Arrow, OK | we should do a poll, performance or chrome.
while I certainly appreciate the HP/TQ mods, my stock Vision gives us all we need.
Chrome? oh yeah, gimme chrome!! |
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Visionary
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Jasper, MO | His "performance (louder) exhaust" probably cost him some power, especially on the low end. I've seen it happen before. The stock exhaust probably gave him more low end and mid range power than what he's got now.
While the Vision does have good power stock, there is another 25 horsepower hidden in there just waiting to be unleashed. Same for the CCT. It's quite addictive once you've experienced it, kind of like chrome.
I spent $1295 total to get GL1800 beating performance. The chrome will have to wait.
Ronnie
Edited by rdbudd 2012-08-20 10:21 PM
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Tourer
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Moravia, IA | I gotta agree.
I think my total was about $1300 for the VFC3, Lloydz cams and the Lloydz intake plate - installed.
Easily the best $1300 I ever spent.......REALLY woke the bike up. Its like a different machine......skip the chrome.....get the POWER!!! |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 1109
| Count me in the performance group. As soon as Lloyd has cams in stock................... |
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Tourer
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Tucson, AZ | Ditto on the power upgrade. Had mine KevinX'ed some time back. Was the best $1150 I've spent on a bike. |
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Visionary
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Jasper, MO | kris1956 - 2012-08-21 6:16 AM
Count me in the performance group. As soon as Lloyd has cams in stock...................
Get, or do, the rev-extend after you get the cams. You'll find out why after you get the cams. The bike pulls hard to over 6000 RPM and that 5500 rev-limit comes up fast and kills the fun and you leave a lot of performance on the table. Challenge a GL1800 and you'll see what I mean. Stock rev-limit lets you keep up with the Goldwing in a drag race, beat them in 5th gear roll-ons, and get beat on the top end. The rev-extend lets you beat them in all situations. Your Vision will be quicker, stronger, and faster than a GL1800, and that's with the stock exhaust still installed. With aftermarket exhausts YMMV.
Ronnie |
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Puddle Jumper
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coweta ok | chrome may not always get you home but black will always bring you back :-) Had a great time at the AVR
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Iron Butt
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Broken Arrow, OK | LOL Marty, ya dog! |
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Had some fun yesterday