One nice looking Victory Classic Cruiser

 Check this out...

Here is a stock Victory Classic Cruiser; nuthin' to write home
about...
http://www.bikez.com/motorcycles/victory_classic_cruiser_2003.php

Here's one where the guy took took the classic look back 60 or 70
years...
http://hypomojo.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId 22271&galleryIdT251

Damn, that is one hot looking bike - if you like a the retro, custom
look.  The guy wants $10K.
Greg

 
years...http://hypomojo.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId 22271&...

Looks like an Indian Chief with Harley Sportster saddlebags, and with
a real ugly motor in it.
--
Rayvan

 
years...http://hypomojo.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId 22271&...

I like the lump; it looks like one of those Vulcan Drifters from a few years
ago.
What don't you like about the lump aesthetically?

--
Andrew
00 Daytona
00 Speed Triple
71 Kawi H1
05 Infant

 On Apr 27, 11:39 am, "Andrew"

years...http://hypomojo.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId 22271&...

If one looks at an old Norton, or Triumph, an old Shovelhead Harley or
an old Indian motor or to a less extent even the more modern Harleys,
the motors are very mechanical and every part looks like someone took
painstaking time to make it look nice. Your eyes are led to a miriad
of beautiful, mechanical eye-candy that keeps the brain interested.
You (well, at least I) can look at them for hours! Every beautiful
part was needed, and even a simple cam cover or rocker looks as if it
can be hung on the wall as art.

Look at this right-side engine cover from a Norton:
http://www.doctordanger.com/motorbikeroad/gallery/Review/Norton-motorcycle.jpg

Now Triumph. Art. Just beautiful! :
http://home.ama-cycle.org/membersonly/museum/images/b65/engine_600.jpg

A Brough Superior is another gorgious example:
http://www.trickphotog.com/SuperiorBarber.jpg

To a lesser extent yet still very interesting to the eye, a late model
Harley:
http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/photos/BJN11332e.jpg

Finally, Indian Chief Motor:
http://www.indianmotorbikes.com/restos/gh/MVC-069S.JPG

Okay, now look at a Victory motor:
http://www.victory-vtwins.com/images/vicbluev92c.JPG
IMO, a rectangular awkward and un-interesting lump. A hastily-drawn
cartoon of a VTwin motor.

Vulcan Drifter. Can fake plastic parts *ever* be referred to as art?
http://home.ama-cycle.org/membersonly/museum/images/b65/engine_600.jpg
A very plainly designed plastic "chrome" cover 'graces' the lower left
side of the motor. It's intended to resemble the primary of the bike
it's imitating. The plastic valve covers and plastic bolt-on cooling
fins are a shallow attempt to make the motor into something it's not.
They only serve to fool the un-knowing; Folks who know little about
engines. For someone who does know about engines, it's immediatly
passed off as a fake.

My eyes are immediately drawn away from the artificial engine and
directly onto the cost-cutting, cheap seam-welded flange around the
bottom of the fuel tank.
--
Rayvan

 
Oops! Wrong image!
Let's try that again...Here's the Vulcan!
http://www.brauchauto.com/images/02drifter.jpg

 Vulcan Drifter. Can fake plastic parts *ever* be referred to as art?
http://home.ama-cycle.org/membersonly/museum/images/b65/engine_600.jpg
 A very plainly designed plastic "chrome" cover 'graces' the lower
left
 side of the motor. It's intended to resemble the primary of the bike
 it's imitating. The plastic valve covers and plastic bolt-on cooling
 fins are a shallow attempt to make the motor into something it's not.
 They only serve to fool the un-knowing; Folks who know little about
 engines. For someone who does know about engines, it's immediatly
 passed off as a fake.

 My eyes are immediately drawn away from the artificial engine and
 directly onto the cost-cutting, cheap seam-welded flange around the
 bottom of the fuel tank.
 --
 Rayvan