Is it fast?
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WOW, you truly are a great manager knowing stuff like that ! (private joke) 
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It will kill you.
I always say that our bikes don’t sit in the garage plotting our demise between themselves. I like the image though for some reason of them doing just that, it amuses me.
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You’ve never owned a V Max have you 
From that, I have made a mental note to myself to never own one 
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Ha ha…. It is really important to keep the troops informed (private joke!) 
Funnily enough, it was… when I wasn’t quite yet old enough to have a moped, 1992(?) that I saw this (Vmax) being reviewed in a motorcycle magazine (that wasn’t Backstreet Hero’s) and decided… “I want to ride a bike”.
I also feel, now, “I wouldn’t know what to do if I ever had the opportunity”…
Which, to be honest, is much the same as I felt when reading Backstreet Hero’s!
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This was mine, heavily modified, the originals had ridiculous wheel sizes that could only take cross ply tyres. I fitted a 900 Diversion rear wheel and thunderace front to allow 17" radials, supertrapp pipes, uprated fork internals. Z boost, firebox ignition, Wave Discs. Yamaha originally designed it as a tribute to drag cars, never intended to be a cruiser. V Max stands for Velocity Maximum and it was properly fast in a straight line but handling was compromised by the wheel/tyre combo. Original full power models put out 140 bhp, mine 150+ at the rear wheel and they were a proper handful.
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The 6000rpm step
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X boost…stepped in at any revs above tickover
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