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M1combat
| Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 12:55 pm: |
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"MO: What are you doing about a VR1000 engined model? Erik: It's already been published that we would be the first outlet for such an engine. It's a natural fit. Harley-Davidson has a long history of racing, but those bikes don't always sell, like the XR750. That's really what the VR was built for, to carry on the racing heritage and to let their engineers stretch their minds a little. It's worked well on both counts. From Harley-Davidson's perspective some things that they've learned on that engine they're going to use some time in the future, but Harley-Davidson has a philosophy based around preservation of tradition. That shouldn't be thought of in a boring way -- when you understand it you see that it's really brilliant and it's really valuable to the motorcycle industry. So when they do it they're going to have to think about it a whole lot, to understand how to use those things, so that they don't have a short lived product. They're on a different perspective, they have different criteria. From our perspective, we're very interested in it. The race engine was built only as a race engine, it's homologated on a 50-unit basis but it's on the ragged edge of the rules. They didn't want to build a street version, they wanted to take the opportunity of the way the class rules are written to build this bike. The engine is not currently streetable at the level where we would like it. You shouldn't expect to see a bike from us next year, it's not that ready. We're looking into it, we're working on that project, we can't give a time frame for when it'll be done but there's definitely work going on. " I'd much rather see that than a V-Rod powered bike... The VR-1K was air cooled yes? |
Tripper
| Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 09:06 pm: |
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Nada on the air-coolski. |
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