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Tourer
Posts: 363
Goldsboro, NC | Last weekend, the city of Raleigh shut down 5 blocks of downtown for a bike bash. (I suppose I should disclose that it was sponsored by Ray Price Harley and Nationwide)
It was jam packed on Saturday night so I parked my then 36 hour old Vision off site and commenced a-walkin. Bikes all the way up one side and down the other plus a row in the center of the road for the whole 5 blocks. Musta been a few thousand there.... of all makes and models... except a Vistory Vision.
Now, I like to be weird. I run Linux instead of Winblows... I have a recumbent bicycle... I use an external frame backpack instead of internal... and I ride a Victory Vision. These are not to be weird per se... I simply make my selections based on quality and usability instead of fashion.
That being said... I LIKE to be weird, so I decided to shake things up a bit. (If I only knew!!) I walked my butt back to my bike, drove around to the bike entrance, did the parade ride around the whole loop and parked the bike smack in the center of the party. Then I grabbed a latte and my smokes and parked my butt where I could hear the band (Led Head... pretty good) and watch the crowd.
4 hours, 3/4 a pack of smokes and 3 lattes later, I can safely say that there were not 60 seconds in a row when there was not somebody checking out the bike... usually 4-6 and sometimes as many as 20. What an attention grabber! Folks would walk past a $75K custom chopper with blinky LED thingies all over it to check out the Vision. If someone hung around long enough, I'd mooch over and show off a few things (HID, stereo, etc..) I should get a commision from all the sales I'm sure I generated.
The Victory Vision will not be a rarity for long. If you like being the center of attention, get to one of these events, get in the middle, then stand back and watch the show.
Having more fun every day...
the trailBarge |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 725
Reno County, KS | I'm with you there trailBarge. I just finished a 5,500 trip early this morning. The bike had drawn attention at almost every stop for fuel or landmark. Everyone from the overseas Jaguar car club traveling Route 66 to the guy on the Screaming Eagle CVO Road Glide (this year,s is the nicest yet but $35K!?) wanted to know about the Vision. I got pulled over by the Springfield, IL Firemarshall in front of the Abraham Lincoln Library so the guys could "see that bike". Someone wanted to trade their wife for the bike, another guy wanted to trade his sister. LOL Mike Ackatiff had just set the motorcycle land speed record in the Bonneville Salt flats (Sep 29th) the day I was in Salt Lake getting my drive belt fixed. I ran into him the next day outside of Reno and HE had more questions about the Vision than I did about the streamliner. He autographed road trip map and his wife gave me one of thier crew shirts! It's been pretty amazing indeed... |
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Tourer
Posts: 460
Centennial, CO | His Ack Attack might have gone faster with a smaller person in there. LOL
Seriously! That is WAY cool! I would love to meet and talk with him. Thanks for the stories guys!
I too get the same reaction. In some cases I have to stop the convo or my group will leave me behind.  |
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Raleigh / Ray Price story
