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montanalifter wrote:How about the new 2015 Kawasaki Vulcan S? http://www.motorcycle.com/blog/wp-conte ... 50x389.jpg
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New for 2015, a sexy little 650 halfway between a cruiser and a naked. Did I mention it's new for 2015?

Also, that's eight straight weeks without a cruiser, eleven if you don't count the Kymco (which I don't (-: ).
Wow, 8 weeks with no cruisers? Well, sounds like it's time for a cruiser next then. I had a request for the URAL MIR as well.

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How about the BMW S1000XR? I find it really polarizing.

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Grey Thumper wrote:How about the BMW S1000XR? I find it really polarizing.

http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/motorcyc ... 1000XR.htm
That's a good one as well! Just posted that yesterday, quite a interesting bike! Yup,I'll add the S1000XR to the list then.

There were about 20 more models I added yesterday that were just released for the EMCIA show. :D

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How about a Zero? I'm not about to buy one but electric bikes are definitely here to stay. Might prompt some spirited debate... and the Luddites don't own computers, yet, mostly, maybe.

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faded sun wrote:How about a Zero? I'm not about to buy one but electric bikes are definitely here to stay. Might prompt some spirited debate... and the Luddites don't own computers, yet, mostly, maybe.

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Sure thing! We haven't had a 2015 Zero up yet and haven't had their base Zero S up since the 2010 model... :)

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Just a thought, but how about we do something different to bring in the New Year, rate a classic bike. I nominate 1954 Vincent Black Shadow HRD 998. And it does have some relevance today as there is a small cottage industry in build replica's. And I am sure Mike could dig out some of the original sales bumf released back then. :lol:
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ceemes wrote:Image

Just a thought, but how about we do something different to bring in the New Year, rate a classic bike. I nominate 1954 Vincent Black Shadow HRD 998. And it does have some relevance today as there is a small cottage industry in build replica's. And I am sure Mike could dig out some of the original sales bumf released back then. :lol:
I like the ideas of having an older bike on the cool wall. It could be any era from 1900 - 2013 as long as it is no longer current.

The problem with the Black Shadow is that would anyone vote other than awesome? :boat:
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The problem with having such an old bike up on the Cool Wall is I don't have the photos or information for it. I have bike guides going back to 1970, but my guides really went through quite a revision in 2000 with international information, specifications and big photos. Before then, the information was hard to come by.

So bikes on the Cool Wall are a little limited to the past 45 years for basic information and best from the past 15 years (2000+) as most will have owned that motorcycle and/or rode/seen one.

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totalmotorcycle wrote:
So bikes on the Cool Wall are a little limited to the past 45 years for basic information and best from the past 15 years (2000+) as most will have owned that motorcycle and/or rode/seen one.

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I think it would definitely be interesting to throw in a non current bikes like that into the cool wall mix on occasion. :kicking:
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totalmotorcycle wrote:
So bikes on the Cool Wall are a little limited to the past 45 years for basic information and best from the past 15 years (2000+) as most will have owned that motorcycle and/or rode/seen one.

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I think it would definitely be interesting to throw in a non current bikes like that into the cool wall mix on occasion. :kicking:
I'm up for it, feel free to suggest any of them from the guides. I think I featured a few 2000 and 2003's this year... (off the top of my head). Lots of great non-currents out there still on the roads.

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