and some more fun with the new Venture at the Sturgis Rally..

[cowpuc]

Couple more vids on the new Venture... Waiting for our turn to toss a leg over one,,, checkin em out and in pulls that dinky little new R1 with its tiny 60 inch motor.. My neighbors with their 117 big inch V-Twins HATE my teeny little motored R1 with a passion - personally I LOVE what Mom Yam did with that itty bitty little 1000cc motor,, always have,,, always will!! Cause of that,,, and you will have to pardon me for this,, my attention turns from the new V-Twin air cooled Venture to the R1 at the end of this vid...

 

[cowpuc]

and of course,, just like the old days of Motocrossing and Hare Scrambling for this geezer,, the fun always starts with a riders meeting just to get us all on the same track - even though its not an MX track at this point of my life..

 

 

[cowpuc]

Testing the gearing and the delivery of the motor across that gearing on the big 113 inch V-Twin.. Rev limiter at 30 in 1st,, 45 in second and 60ish in 3rd....

[Guest divey]

Couple more vids on the new Venture... Waiting for our turn to toss a leg over one,,, checkin em out and in pulls that dinky little new R1 with its tiny 60 inch motor.. My neighbors with their 117 big inch V-Twins HATE my teeny little motored R1 with a passion - personally I LOVE what Mom Yam did with that itty bitty little 1000cc motor,, always have,,, always will!! Cause of that,,, and you will have to pardon me for this,, my attention turns from the new V-Twin air cooled Venture to the R1 at the end of this vid...

 

 

Puc without trying to high jack your thread, why did you get rid of the VMax and buy the R1? Seems to me the VM would be a lot more exciting to ride and you're not humped over like a dog........ Doug

[cowpuc]

Puc without trying to high jack your thread, why did you get rid of the VMax and buy the R1? Seems to me the VM would be a lot more exciting to ride and you're not humped over like a dog........ Doug

 

Because Crud was,, well,, Crud because he had a lot of miles on him (still REALLY flew), was very tired and I had a chance to make some :mo money:on him.. Then,, out of no where came along this dork waddy,, nasty Cancer bug thing which tried to kick my butt but it lost but it brought me to bucket list time.. Tip has known that an R1 has been on my bucketlist for ever, when the Oncologist mentioned the bucket list stuff - Tip and I looked at each and pretty much said "R1" at the same time. I ALWAYS wanted one of these totally naughty,, 5th fastest production motorcycles in the world, flip over backwards at 170 and grind your face into the pavement, totally precision race bikes but was always to busy raising kids and having to be somewhat responsible to continue putting food on the table for my family that I knew the R1 would have to wait.. Besides,, I was involved pretty deeply in racing dirt bikes and simply couldnt afford to do it all..

The V-Max (including that new 1700cc V-Max) is fast but NOTHING even close to the R1.. The early V-Max had to stretch to see a true 150 mph,, my R1 will see that + wayyyyyyy easily in 3rd gear AND do it with more precision than one can imagine - its like the difference between a surgeon trying to do surgery with a scapal instead of a sharpened butter knife.. Even the big V-Max is no match for a liter bike.. The lop eared little motored 5 valve varmint will pull 105 in 1st quicker than you can say "that dont look smart" IF you good enough with throttle/clutch control so it dont body slam ya...

As far as being hunched over like a dog ,, well put Sonshine ,,, some strange things happen when ya get over 150,,, the wind tends to lift your body and its kind of like riding on cloud - sort of weightlessness thing starts happening.. Above 160 and you simply would NOT want to even raise up there into that hi speed wind - seriously,, I stuck my hand out there once at higher speed like that and it about ripped my arm out of the shoulder socket AND I was almost unable to draw my arm back in - trust me Son,, that strange looking ride position is absolutely necessary on a high speed race bike like this - unless you have a streamliner kit like you see on the Bonneville scoots but thats more like an actual Rocket than free airing the stuff like I am LOVING doing..

Another point,, I did take a friction cruise control off one of my old Venture Frames out back (you know what those are? Its one of those cheapy little clamp on devices where ya snap it down to lock the throttle ) and tittled with it and got it working on Maggie the R1 - I got one of the few actual liter race bikes with cruise that I know of .. Because your ol Dad is,, well,, Old,,,, his back cant take just putttzying around all crumpled up like that for more than an hour or so at a time and this bike is extremely well balanced (I can easily stand on her pegs and coast for hours on her no handed), I can lock the throttle at 70 in 6th gear, set up and steer with my knees and go for miles and miles and miles on the highway just like that,,, you would be SHOCKED at how well Maggie handles bumps and highway deformation all on her own..

Nah,, quite frankly,,, a V-Max is boring compared to this teeny motored thing,, this thing is DEFINITELY worthy of a Pucs Bucketlist......

 

Back at cha..

Dad

 

P.S. - here is something else you might find interesting,, I sure do.. Maggie is spect at 87 Octane fuel and she LOVES the stuff!! Also,, throttle locked, cruising 75,,, that snot nosed little Widow Makin thing will nock down 47 mpg - and its CARBURATED!! UNREAL,, just UNREAL!!!!

Edited August 18, 2017 by cowpuc

[Chaharly]

Testing the gearing and the delivery of the motor across that gearing on the big 113 inch V-Twin.. Rev limiter at 30 in 1st,, 45 in second and 60ish in 3rd....

 

Well that's not very impressive...

 

I think my 88 will do 45 in first (maybe more) 65 in second and like a hundred in third?