Sorry for all the late votes, but I love the VMax, both the new VMX17 and the old VMX12. I still have magazines from when the original V-Max came out in 1985.
I went cool, for no other reason than on the track, you cannot get this thing around corners without scraping pegs. It is a muscle bike and drags with the best of them. What is very cool is unlike the other bike, the air intakes are real on this one.
I spent my therapy money an a K1200S
The therapy worked, I got a GS now
A touch of insanity crept back in the shape of an R1200R