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I had a Yamaha Royal Star and I always thought it would make a super platform for extensive customization. Its a bloody big impressive whopper off the shelf with double exhausts both sides.



Also the V-4´s wide power band allows 0-120 km/h on second gear. In town I do 3 times as many gear changes on my Fat Boy because trashy high rev nature of V-2.



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[cruiz-euro]

>So, is the V-twin cheaper or is it just a cruiser

>thing?



Exactly - its both. But having had cruisers of both configurations I can testify V-4 is a superior concept. But going from there, the boxer 6 of a Valk must be a real killer. Never ridden one but that´s the next on the list.



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[cruiz-euro]

I have Royal Star tattoeed on my a$$



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[cruiz-euro]

Its true longride. The jap companies spent 20 years telling eveyone that V-2 is an inferior design. Which is true. What they did not then understand was that, regardless, that´s what people wanted. Its like mama telling you not to go after that hot ****ty girl because she wouldn´t make an ideal hausfrau.



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Back in ´82 they did not only produce inferior V-2 motor, they produced a hugely inferior motorcycle.



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You are right. And I think its utterly pathetic and doomed to fail.



Also their previous ad campaign was absolutely disasterous: "Its love when you don´t have to say you are broke". When I saw it I nearly puked. I didn´nt get a hard on for several hours. Geez is H-D secretly paying Yamaha´s ad agency to come up with such appalling crap? Or are they brainstorming some japanese girl school summer trainees?



They should go for the themes of quality and performance. They have those in the bag. And every boy has a little bit of engineer in him.



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