[Drtoronto]

Originally Posted by ozoner

It's $16,000!!! There are a lot of beautiful bikes out there at any price, but I think Victories are overpriced.

Beautiful styling - their designers know their stuff, I have to admit.

The thing that would bug me most (and I know bugs some Victory riders that I ride with) is gas capacity. It is double the displacement of our M50, and yet holds only four-tenths of a gallon more than an M50. On a long ride down to Mt Rainier and back this spring, our friends riding Victories had to stop four times for gas, while we stopped twice. If you put a lot of miles on your bike, then that is going to irritate you. With my commute, that would mean gassing up every other day instead of every 4-5 days.

If power is your main concern, spend $600 and put on some aftermarket exhaust, a K&N air filter, and a PCIII. See if that makes you happier before you take the monster depreciation hit on a 3-month-old M50 and buy another bike that costs well over double (and be realistic - by the time you pay taxes/fees and put on some custom touches, you are going to be hitting close to $20K)

Bingo if i was going to pop out 20 grand i would get a used loaded up goldwing not a 20 grand polaris at least the sucker would be comfortable
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ps my m50 now runs pretty stroung on the highway with the mods i have done far better then with out them its simply a power to weight ratio now, the m50 modded up a bit will stay with those bikes all day long