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Visionary
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New Bohemia, Va | One, I think total black would look awesome, two, the ape hangers are adjustable and will come back to you for a lower position, three, I'm sure you could do some work to get the LEDs tucked away and D. exhaust is replaceable with any pipe you desire given the money availability, the world is your oyster. |
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Iron Butt
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Perry Hall, MD | It's easy to see why the aftermarket business is so big. Everyone wants something that is just a little different. Would you agree that some leather tassels would look pretty good too? 
I still want whitewalls for my Vision! |
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Visionary
Posts: 1359
New Bohemia, Va | whitewalls and tassles are the bomb! Uh, I mean that would go good together. I agree on the aftermarket niche, the dealers, car or motorcycle, will always overprice the product, it is as though they encourage aftermarket products. I don't guess I'll ever see floorboard tassles from Victory, but Indian has a nice set up... |
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Visionary
Posts: 1436
| Like many who have responded I was thinking HD clone when I first saw this new ride. My initial thought was "great marketing move" which was confirmed by my dealership a few days back. Consider that the economy is a wee bit flat and you need to appeal to more riders. You could R&D a totally new bike but thats costly. What costs the company, costs the dealers and eventually the customer. However if you use existing inventory/parts you can build a different mouse trap with little cost. This savings gets passed on to the dealers and consumers, which is exactly what Vic was thinking. They could not sit idle for another year with nothing new for the consumer in the line up and simply releasing an updated/upgraded version of a current model. THIS is real important; Dealers were saying to themselves, "please NOT another 20k bike." As good as Vic has been doing, and they are doing well for a young start up, they aren't even close to the big boy yet. They'll need to continue chipping at that market one bike design at a time.
We all KNOW how solid Victory's are, don't need to be sold on them, BUT there is a huge American market that thinks Harley as soon as they think motorcycle. To those groups Vic is appealing with knock offs and redesigns. Different than Harley??? Absolutely!!!! The bikes Vic is producing may share some common design ideas with HD, but they surely are not Harleys. Personally I've ridden all the new models Vic has produced, liked all of them. I've also ridden all the New HD models, and liked all of them. There will always be "things" that each bike does different, or better, or worse... so I applaude Victory's efforts in reaching different markets and tastes. Personally I like the new ride, not my style bike but I much prefer it's looks as a bobber more than anything HD has produced off the production line, and the price is perfect. It'll sell......
Now if Victory would design a rear floorboard mount for the Cross bikes that allows it to be adjusted down and forward, we'd be all set, lol..... |
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Cruiser
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Salt Lake City | I had a VTX 1800 Retro w/ spokes that had about $3,500 in aftermarket goodies, not including a beautiful 3K metalflake paintjob. It had wide whites, studded leather everywhere, including floorboard fringe. It was fun customizing because there was sooo much aftermarket bling available; it got attention everywhere I went, and I can't even count how many times people said, "sweet Harley!" I just said, "thanks". It's also interesting to see how much attention my VV TP also draws everywhere I go. No "nice Harley" comments, though!! It would be cool to have more aftermarket stuff available, but this is an incredible bike - I have to keep it away from my painter because that could be dangerous!! If you want to order leather fringe for your floorboards, you can get it by the inch at Chilhowee Leather; great quality leather.
A couple of my VTX buddies(utahvtxriders.com) say their X's will outrun my Vision; might be interesting to find out, although I know I'd leave 'em in the dust on the twisties.....
Edited by wilsondude 2011-01-29 9:40 AM
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Victorys new bike LOOKS like a chopper
