Touring cruiser Shootout!

[Who Dey]

I found this article and it's a pretty good read. Looks like our old Venture faired pretty well.

 

 

http://www.ridermagazine.com/output.cfm?id=2226349

[Yama Mama]

That was interesting, Thanks for posting that!

Yama Mama

[RandyR]

A 5 year warranty for the Royal Star vs 1 (Victory), 2 (Harley) or 3 (Kawa).

 

Not mentioned at all in the article.

 

Also dinged for only a 5 speed tranny, when a 6 would just be a nuisance when we have such a wide power band compared to the other bikes.

 

But, a fairly good article. Also not sure where they got their HP figures from? They may have used the lower HP from the early Royal Stars, and and not the Gen2 Venture/RSTD.

 

handling in the curves got dinged, likely the test bike had factory Bridgestone tires on it.

[Condor]

Nice read. Kinda rare to see the RSV included in any comparison test due to it being around for so long. I think they refered to it as 'old school' somewhere in the article....

[tibadoe]

Good read - Thanks.