New 2008 Victory

What do you think of the new 2008 Victory-VisionTourPremium

Most beautifiul bike ever made:
1
3%
I like it. Very nice:
9
27%
I don't like it at all:
2
6%
One butt ugly bike:
18
55%
No optinion at all:
3
9%
 
Total votes: 33

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#11 Unread post by dr_bar »

ceemes wrote:Wait a mo....you're telling me they hid the fuel tanks in the fairing? Basically out in the open? Am I the only one that see a big potential problem with this?
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#12 Unread post by badinfluence63 »

My opinion is that bike is butt arse ugle, I'm sorry. However I also don't like anything scifi and it does have a scifi look about it. I can see where others with different taste would find this apealing.

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#13 Unread post by ceemes »

dr_bar wrote:
ceemes wrote:Wait a mo....you're telling me they hid the fuel tanks in the fairing? Basically out in the open? Am I the only one that see a big potential problem with this?
You could carry the olympic torch in 2010...


(Or is that, you could be the olympic torch in 2010)
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#14 Unread post by jstark47 »

storysunfolding wrote:You guys have to see it in person. I thought it looked goofy as hell in all the photos but when I sat on it at the dealership it just "fit" and seeing how the lines flow in person is much different than trying to picture them from a few 2D photos.
I agree. To be fair to Victory, I need to see it in person. I don't like it in the pictures (....but I don't have much room to talk about fugly bikes, I own a V-strom fer pete's sake!!!)
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#15 Unread post by fireguzzi »

I don't like the pics. It looks like some kinda space age two wheeled Winnebago.
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#16 Unread post by Locopez »

I think that it looks to "Buck Rogers" to me....earlier in the year I was at a dealer...and this sales guys pulls me into his office...and had me watch this promo video for the bike. After that he says "so are you ready to put down a deposit?" I was like ummm NO. Then he asks me what I am riding...I tell him an 03 HD bagger...and he had the nerve to tell that it was not a true touring bike like this new Victory! I laughed so hard I almost cried......... :laughing:
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#17 Unread post by gypsy_woman »

That victory is not too appealing, but then i am not that in to touring luxury bikes, i like barebones cruiser tourers better
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#18 Unread post by TrueFaith »

What were they thinking? It's uglier than ugly. I remember reading a "letter to the editor" in a bike magazine that had just reviewed the Victory. Some guy said that from the front it looked exactly like "Bozo the Clown". I fell off the couch laughing because that's exactly what it does look like with those weird headlights.

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#19 Unread post by RoadRocket »

That sure is one ugly looking machine.
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#20 Unread post by the_sandman_454 »

The poll needs one more option somewhere between "I like it" and "ugly as hell"...

I think it's a look that could grow on me.

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