V Rod motor on Touring bike

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#21

06-08-2011 | 11:07 AM

Desoto

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The late Vulcan 2000 from Kawasaki had a 125ci liquid cooled motor.

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06-08-2011 | 12:25 PM

Geoff

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Here's your liquid cooled harley.

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#23

06-08-2011 | 01:37 PM

skratch

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Originally Posted by DrPlastic

May be water cooled but the V-rod puts out almost twice the horsepower

yeah, but its rated at 85 ft/lbs of torque at 7000 rpm.

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06-08-2011 | 02:16 PM

MassHD

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If HD was planning to put the VRod motor in a touring bike they would have though about that issue back when they developed the motor. My quess is not if but when they go that route it will be a new motor.

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06-08-2011 | 02:51 PM

$tonecold

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I spoke with someone yesterday that was involved in the testing and engineering of the V-Rod, he said that this bike has already been prototyped but will not go into production because the V-Rod motor cost $1200 dollars more than the TC. Said it was a great bike though.

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06-08-2011 | 03:31 PM

bmaier

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Originally Posted by KCFLHTC

A few liquid cooled bikes over 100 CI. The Honda VTX 1800 and the Triumph Rocket III and I'm sure there are others.

Suzuki Boulevard 109ci

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#27

06-08-2011 | 03:34 PM

bmaier

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Originally Posted by thebarzeen

You have to rev the vrod too much to make it any fun for touring.... great for what it is, but I like to log highway miles at 2500rpm, not 5500rpm....

how about just an air cooled 120ci offered from the factory as an option? I know that HD has a crate motor listed in its screaming eagle catalog..... how about making the 103 standard and the 110 or 120 the power pack version......

PLUS ONE, I would take a 120R over a VRod motor for touring, any day

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#28

06-08-2011 | 05:02 PM

skratch

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Originally Posted by $tonecold

and yet the rocker-c has an msrp of 16999, while the vrod muscle msrp is 14999....

Last edited by skratch; 06-08-2011 at 06:53 PM.

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#29

06-08-2011 | 05:36 PM

Mike

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There was one of those Road Rod conversions at one of the local HD dealerships a few months ago. It looked really, really good, but they wanted a lot of money for it. The sales guy told me that Brian Klock had done the conversion. Don't know if that was true or just blowing smoke.

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