CC1 Got The Victory Today!!!!!
 

Well, ok, I didn't actually "get" the Victory but I did get to ride two of them. I had forgotten that the local big Motorcycle dealer had a big Victory Motorcycle Factory Ride setup for today.

You were supposed to log in a website and register to get to ride some really cool new Victory motorcycles. I had forgoten to do so but stopped in to look at the bikes anyway.

I hit the jackpot arriving at the perfect time because just as I asked if I could register in person to ride there were two people missing for the 2 pm ride. They had me hurry up my form and then I got to ride about ten miles on a beautiful candy red Victory Vegas.

When I returned with a big silly grin on my face as it only got better when someone didn't show up for their slot on the 2:30 pm ride so I got to go out again on an amazing Victory Hammer. This is the Victory with the huge rear tire as wide or wider than most car tires. It was also customized with some amazing sounding Vance & Hines pipes. Came back with even a bigger grin on my face.

If I had about $18,000 I didn't know what to do with I probably would have bought one on the spot.

However what I really want is the new Victory Vision. It is a big touring bike to compete with the Honda Goldwing. It will not be out until this fall but they had a show model there to sit on and look it. It looks like something out of the future and I think will give Honda some real competition in the touring market. I think it is going to sell for around $23-24,000 though. They haven't released pricing yet but that is the rumor.

I came home and after a few chores headed out about 6 pm for a nice country ride on my VTX1300 and decided I still love it. The sky was clear and the sun was shining an amazing golden color on all of the fields and trees I rode by. It was a beautiful ride through the Middle Tennessee countryside.

See if you can post a pic of one, CC. I don't know what they look like.

It was a beautiful day. Jon and I rode for a little while this afternoon. We didn't go far, but we jumped on the bike and rode to the nextdoor town and ate at the mexican restaurant and rode back. It's about a 20 minute ride over there so it was enough to satisfy me for the moment. I haven't rode in two or three weeks so I was really missing it.

Victory Motorcyles

CC,
As much as I'd never get on a bike, I have to tell you that since I found out about Victory bikes a couple of years ago, they've become some of my favorite bikes to ogle.

They're all really hot looking bikes. I think my favorite is the Vegas 8 Ball though.

Sweet! Thanks Ronzo. The 2007 models are awesome!

Tamor,

I am going to have to get one of the techies here to teach me how to post pics. I did it once or twice back on FCF but it was so long ago I forgot how. Plus I don't just want to post a file I want to post the actual photos as part of the post like the smart people do!

Ronzo,

I am not a big Harley fan though I have great respect for their marketing and mystique. I was, however, very impressed with the Victory bikes. The engines had an incredible power band and shifting was precise and smooth. Clutch feel was perfect.

It is exciting to see an American company building such good and innovative motorcycles.

They, like the Harley's, are out of my price range though. My VTX1300R lists for around $9800 and I bought it from a discount dealer at the end of the model year for around $7200. The cheapest Victory is a little more than double that.

Check out the new Victory Vision touring bike coming out this fall as a 2008 model.

uh.... WOW! That is definitely different. I like it, but not sure if I love it. I'd have to see it in person.

Where is it? I'm missing it somehow.

I like the Vegas!

There's a link on the site to "the vision', but here it is

http://www.polarisindustries.com/en-...y/Vision/Spin/

I sat on it and I am having the worst case of "fever" I have had in years for any motorized vehicle.

I really, really, want the Vision. Maybe when it comes out there will be some horrible reviews that will help me cool that fever down but I have a feeling it is going to get good reviews.

Thanks. And I went back and saw it plain as day the next time - ha.

I'm not sure. It doesn't grab me. Sorry. It's an awesome bike, but I like some of the others better.

CC1...

Those things are truly amazing. I can understand the fever.

There are times that I think I would love to have one of those things if only the wife would enjoy it with me...but she would not. If she would, I'd love to take a cruse out West, up into Canada and into Alaska on the Pan American Highway, camping along the way. But, that would be the last thing that she would want to do. Oh well!

Hope you get one, my friend. You'll have a blast of fun for a long, long time.

Strange Person,

Sadly my wife will not ride with me either. She says she will ride on a tryke but not the back of a motorcycle.

She has ridden a couple of short rides with me but after her back surgery and with her continuing back and neck problems it was not a pleasant experience for her. Makes me think she would not be able to enjoy a tryke even if I did sissy up and swap out my motorcycle for one.

Here is why she won't ride with you!

http://boortz.com/images/funny/redne..._hauling17.jpg

LOL!!! I met a guy who had a friend riding at night on the Natchez Trace on a Goldwing with a passenger. They hit a deer and it went up over the windshield and off to one side. The guy actually managed to keep the bike upright!!!

I am very careful to try and avoid riding at dusk out here in the hills of Middle Tennessee as that is the worst time for deer to cross the road. I still see a lot of them during the day though and I am always using my periphial vision to try and see any movement in the trees off to the side of the road.

Last year the motorcyclist who was considered "Mr. Safety" and had a monthly column in a magazine and taught courses on safety hit a deer in rural Texas and died.

I was thinking about getting a motorcycle until a friend of ours was killed a couple of weeks ago fooling around and ran into the back of a parked truck (without a helmet). No thanks. Not worth it. :)

Here is what one guy got his wife to ride....

http://www.tibbetts.cc/07hddeuce.jpg

my wife said I can have a motorcycle after our kids are done with college. my oldest is 2 and my youngest has not been born.

I have lots of time. plus by the time i CAN. I will be too old TO!

What if he had rear-ended that truck in a car? Would you quit driving? :cool:

Of course I would. But he didn't :)

You would quit driving cars??? :icecream

Yes, under the conditions you specified...if that guy (dead) rearended the truck while driving a car. That's what I said, eh? ;)

I watched a guy get hit from behind. He was at a dead stop making a left hand turn (in the turn lane) while he was on a bike. He was knocked off the bike, and skidded 50 feet plus on his back.

This is what keeps me off bikes.

The guy could have done nothing to avoid this and it was totally the car's fault.

I don't know if he lived or died, but he was carried away in an ambulance after they scraped him off the pavement.

It's not how careful you are... it's how blind other people are.

There's no protection on a bike.
No thank you.

These are my thoughts exactly. Not that I fear death that much... it might be a welcomed change. But my family needs me to hang around.

First of all anyone who rides a motorcycle without a helmet is an idiot. Risk management is all a part of riding but taking that risk means you are an idiot.

I don't ride every day, I don't ride to work, I avoid heavy traffic areas most of the time, etc all as part of my risk management. I still could die any moment of course just as a 37 year old man did two or three weeks ago riding out on the same country roads that I usually do.

A guy in our church didn't make a curve a few weeks ago and while his whole face helmet saved his life he did not have on proper riding clothes so had a lot of skin scraped off his arm and ankle.

He was in Vanderbilt hospital for skin grafts and while the ones on his arm took beautifully his diabetes has caused complications on the ankle and it is not taking. He may have to use articial skin there and in any case is going to require a lot more surgery. Believe me I think about those things since I am almost 50, have a little arthritis in both shoulders, and a calcified tendon in the left one. I also don't recover near as well at this age as I did in my 20's from things.

Some people make fun of guys like me riding with jackets with armored pads and jeans with kevlar and gloves in the summer but that is just fine with me. At least if I lay it down I have some protection!

I apologize for sounding snarky. I just have trouble wrapping my brain around this comment. I realize that you lost a friend in an accident and I send my condolences. But to quit driving because someone else has an accident and dies? I look at things differently, I guess.

What's next, quit walking cause someone you know trips and falls and breaks their leg?

If you're going to ride you need to be as smart about it as possible.

You're smart about it, CC.

( By the way, the guy I spoke about did have a helmet. They are mandatory in NY and that is where this accident happened )

I think the idea was that a car has protection, whereas a bike has none.

I ride every chance I get.
There's nothing else quite like it.

That's great. I've taken care of a few patients who had gotten into motorcycle accidents without all the protection and it ain't pretty!

CC1,
I wouldn't dream of making fun of you, but I don't dress like that. Jeans and a shirt, with half-a-helmet!!!

Amen! :thumbsup

I guess you were so busy being snarky that you didn't catch my sarcasm :ursofunny

I realize that some people are careful on a motorcycle, but I just won't take the risk myself. The guy I know was being quite careless. Of course I still drive my car, though :)

Oh Lord.

Here I sit weeping hot tears onto my keyboard.

I thought by the title of the thread, that CC1 had seen the Light!

Prayed thru!

Got rid of his speedos and muscle shirts.

Was moving to Elder Epleys.

But no!!!

It was a farce!!

I weep when I realize what could have been.













:heeheehee

:largehalo

Bump to show my posted pic was properly attired.

The driver that is. The passenger is apparently Field Dressed!

:killinme

I crack me up sometimes!

Field Dressed!



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You thought he was looking your way? :lol :lol :lol

LOL!!! Since one of the Victory motorcycles I rode at the demo is named "Vegas" I was trying to figure out how to work Vegas into the title of the thread but had to just settle for the Victory without Vegas part of it.

I was getting ready to mail him self addressed tithing envelopes until he got here to. I am disappointed.(like ICOF bishop):largehalo