1989 August Cycle - Vintage Motorcycle Magazine - Yamaha Virago 1100

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Seller: Top-Rated Plus Seller gallimoresgoods ✉️ (11,640) 99.9%, Location: Kingsport, Tennessee, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 354360224322 1989 August Cycle - Vintage Motorcycle Magazine - Yamaha Virago 1100. Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases. Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1989 August Cycle - Vintage Motorcycle Magazine - Yamaha Virago 1100 39 Kawasaki Voyager XII For touring riders who prefer filet mignon, but are saddled with a tube-steak budget. 50 Yamaha Virago 1100 After almost a decade, Japan's Harley impersonator has the act down pat. SPECIAL FEATURE 28 Bimota YB6 And Yamaha FZR1000 Look what happens when you throw wads ofcash at a big-bore Genesis engine. Avanti! FEATURES 37 Federico Martini: The Man Behind The Machine The ingegnere explains the design of his final and best Bimota. by Bruno de Prato 44 BMW K1 A Roman ride on Bavaria’s first real superbike. by Tyrone van Hooydonk 54 Revival H/e spruce up a 1982 GS1100 for fun and profit. by Tyrone van Hooydonk 58 The Secret Life Of Eddie Lawson The champ gets hairball on four wheels for a change. by Ken Vreeke 63 Special FX Redux Turning down the volume on the Flying Jukebox. by Charles Everitt 67 Project DTX: Prologue AMA and Cycle chemists search for a new dirt track formula. . 81 Book Review; -Motorcycle Touring, An International Directof^WS’W^' The guide..tp-tiding;in Shangri-La and other destinations. byKen.Vrqeke. yr DEPARTMENTS F??7 Editdnal/SteVe Ariderson 8 T D Cl Fall From Grace/ Kevin Cameron 10 Letters/ Shobert And Magee Crash 16 New Products/ Wild Child/John Burns 19 Bits/ The Untouchables/Tyrone van Hooydonk 82 Pipeline/ Power Plays/Jim Greening Before the first Virago hit U.S. shores in 1981, Japanese motorcycle companies had followed an unspoken agreement that the big V-twin niche was reserved for America’s own manufacturer. Yama- ha slyly skirted the unspeakable by mak- ing the Virago a different sort of ma- chine-one that nicked rather than blew away the Milwaukee bull's-eye. It was an immediate success. But once Yamaha’s toe was in the door, there was no closing it. Other Jap- anese factories throbbed their way into America’s garages with their own V-en- gined customs. By 1984, Yamaha mar- keting experts couldn’t help noticing the success of Honda’s Magna and Shadow 750s—far closer H-D clones than the Vi- rago. Buyers responded to the addi- tional flash, and to the more traditional Yankee look. While the Japanese manufacturers were just beginning to open point-blank fire at one another on the sport bike front, many American motorcyclists—58 percent of new bike purchasers in 1983, to be precise—cared little about those machines. Of a total 400,000 street mo- torcycles sold in the U.S. that year, 233,000 were "cruisers.” In 1984 the Virago’s loins were re- girded accordingly. Twin shocks re- placed the original Monoshock rear end, footpegs were mounted way up front on the engine cases, twin chrome pipes flowed from the exhaust ports, and a sissy bar sprouted aft of a more stepped seat. The more American Viragos moved like proverbial hotcakes, and a lesson was learned. Custom cruisers didn't need LCD instrument clusters and sophisticated on-board computers, like the ’82 XV920 Virago had; they needed simplicity, and style, and big throbbing engines. That 1984 Virago is still with us today with even more throb. Its original 981 cc diplacement was obtained by boring its 920cc predecessor 3mm larger; and in 1986, a stroke increase pushed dis- placement to its current 1063cc size. Though flywheel weight was also added with the stroke increase for smoother power delivery, the air-cooled, two- valve, oversquare Yamaha still is the most free-rewing of the big twins as well as the smoothest Speaking of rpm, tables turn very fast ■n the international motorcycle business, in sobering contrast to the 233,000 cus- toms sold in 1983, the motorcycle indus- try sold just under 92,000 last year ac- cording to a Yamaha official—and a And much more! 11696 RL- 11697-11699 mb3102
  • Condition: Good
  • Topic: Motorcycle
  • Publication Name: Cycle
  • Features: Illustrated
  • Publication Month: August
  • Publication Year: 1989
  • Language: English
  • Genre: Action & Adventure, Activity, Men, Sports, Travel & Geography, Transport

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