Don't race me bro.

[MtnMax/Magniac]

This is funny, cause the local Harley dealer had me ride a 2008 stock V-rod on this last Saturday.... He has been on me for a couple weeks saying the Max is fast, but if you want real fast jump on this bad boy.... (Harley).... What a POS! would not get out of its own way!

Cured my Hog curiosity for sure! Nice bike but damn, I would be embarrassed to ride it with it being labeled "fast"..... I almost feel sorry for it..... Not!!
:rofl_200::rofl_200:

Tell the Harley dealer if HE wants to see what fast really is, he should take a VMax around the block.

 

[vmaxcruzer]

I like giving off the Lame duck allure. Most if not all of the people I ride with are scared of my bike. I don't brag on it as being a HD or any other bike killer. I think the unknown on their behalf is all the fuel needed to keep them guessing. Ive actually heard people tell stories of my bike winning races that weren't true, and they didn't know I own it. Don't get me wrong, I have several well deserved confirmed kills but they were one on one, no crowds, then I shrink back into the mystical fog of Vmax-dom.

I used to have a bright yellow 68 Chevelle BB with a huge cam and stall converter, meats, ladder bars, (among countless other goodies) and you could hear this car thumping a block away. When I cruised I never layed into it, just rumbled along slow like. There were plenty of quicker/faster cars around but they never messed with me. Afraid of the unknown.

 

[dannymax]

I like giving off the Lame duck allure. Most if not all of the people I ride with are scared of my bike. I don't brag on it as being a HD or any other bike killer. I think the unknown on their behalf is all the fuel needed to keep them guessing. Ive actually heard people tell stories of my bike winning races that weren't true, and they didn't know I own it.Don't get me wrong, I have several well deserved confirmed kills but they were one on one, no crowds, then I shrink back into the mystical fog of Vmax-dom.
I used to have a bright yellow 68 Chevelle BB with a huge cam and stall converter, meats, ladder bars, (among countless other goodies) and you could hear this car thumping a block away. When I cruised I never layed into it, just rumbled along slow like. There were plenty of quicker/faster cars around but they never messed with me. Afraid of the unknown.

I, also, am a fan of this approach....used it all my life! Simply put:

"You don't start any.....there won't be any!"

 

[2stangs69-91]

I have a theory on this also. The faster the car or bike the slower you can cruise it around town. I have always had fast street cars 2 of my mustangs(street cars) ran deep in the 10's. If you are fast or sound fast you dont have to prove it. If you notice it always seems to to be the under powered cars that fly around town trying to prove something. Walk the walk lol.

 

[vmaxcruzer]

You got it.:coolgleamA:

 

[vmaxinID]

I think that's part of the reason they want to "Test" their bikes.
None of them know how fast my bike really is, I have never had to lay down 100% throttle on them.
So as I putt around town, the unknown is killin' em'.

 

[RaWarrior]

At least with the avon rear tire, I can't go anywhere near WOT until third gear or it just lights up. It's like a tire that just won't break in. Might as well be made of wood. Piece of ****.

My friend with the M109 gets people wanting to race constantly. He still almost always wins, but while it's a nice looking bike it has the "fake Harley" v-twin look that seems to attract "the look" at stoplights.

Not to say nobody's ever challenged me, but it is considerably less often. Some guy pulls up and proceeds to check out my bike, trying to decide if his Sportster with straight pipes could take it. The ones with half a brain left fear the unknown, the true idiots proceed to start revving the **** out of their cement mixer. Sometimes I'll mess with them a bit, stay right about even for a bit before cracking it open and blowing away from them like they were standing still.

Last year at Americade one of my friends was at the big HD test-ride zone chatting up a sales guy about the Vrod(same one who eventually bought the M109). Our bikes were parked nearby and the salesman spotted my Vmax, and asked my friend if he was "upgrading" from the Max. "That was a pretty fast bike back in the 80s, but it's nothing compared to the Vrod." I almost said something, but didn't feel like getting into an imaginary pissing contest with some ******* HD fanboy.

 

[vmaxcruzer]

I would have reminded him on how hard it is to pick up your teeth with broken fingers.