Originally posted by Pei
Nice bikes both. I'd hate to have to keep all that chrome clean though!
Tedrbr: I'm not very familiar with Victory as they don't seem to sell them down here. What is it about the engineering that you prefer?
I like V-twins myself but I prefer something sportier 
Victory is quietly gaining ground.
Fuel injection standard, not an add-on option. Six speed (overdrive) tranny. 100 cu in motor. Oil/air cooled motor. Simple V-twin design. Hammer and Vegas chassis are not as good performers as the early Victory designs were, but the new designs look a whole lot better than those early models too.
New Vegas Jackpot, and other models, have picked up the motor, tranny, 250mm rear tire, and other items from Hammer, but still prefer having a TACH on the bike (which Hammer has), and wider front tire of Hammer won't follow road grooves like skinny one the Jackpot, and many other cruisers, have.
Handles very well. Very easy to maintain. Not riding what everybloodybody else is riding. Even with that fat rear tire, once moving, it handles well, if just a bit heavier in counter-steering. "The OTHER American motorcycle company" for where that means something. Turns heads, and the bike and add-ons don't cost as much, typically, as "Official Bar and Shield" would have.
Then, I don't look "typical"either. No leathers. No shorty helmet. No tats. I switched to Cordura years ago, and quit carrying separate rain gear. If I wear a lid at all, it's full or 3/4. And usually a slate grey (I will never, never, never wear a black helmet ever again....). Otherwise, why bother?
The chrome?....Yeah, that takes some detailing a couple times a year.
As to sporty, I prefer Sport-Tourers to Sport. Honda ST1300 is now gone from stable as the long distance and foul weather rig, so I can get the new Connie - Kawasaki C-14 Concours when it's available this summer.
Nice Aprilla. RSV? I just can't do true Sportbikes any more. Nekkid street bikes I can still ride, all about the ergonomics. Downhill slide of late 30's, so the riding position of a Sport for 300 to 500 miles don't work no more. Tuono 1000R, or maybe a Monster, possibly. But like my Sport Tourers.
