Which muscle cruiser is the best?

>>28465218 (OP)
vmax is my dream bike

>>28465218 (OP)
Bottomg > Middle > Top

>>28465218 (OP)

>>28465330
Vmax is badass but so is Triumph with its 3 giant pipes

Someone with a loud bike beat my car to 40mph from a traffic light the other day.
I bet he masturbated over that moment.

Any VROD fans?

>>28465763
This might be the first VRod I've seen that I actually liked.

>>28465218 (OP)
Diavel

>>28465218 (OP)

>>28465218 (OP)
>>28465330
vmax is ruined by those fake air intakes

>>28465940
Are they fake? A massive engine needs to breathe.

>>28466087
They are. It's really dumb. The MT-09 and MT-10 suffer the same symptoms.

>>28466089
in the first one they were fake
in the new one they are functional

>>28465932
do they even make these anymore. saw a guy ehre in brazil with one of these and it was beautiful

>>28465218 (OP)
Diavels are raw as fuck in person, they have a presence that the other two don't. Would love one if I were to go that route.

>>28466417
They brought it back for two years based on the nu-Goldwing but other than that, nah, the Valkyrie is dead since the 2000s.

>>28465932
One of dad's buddies has one of those and he rides it like a crotch rocket. Zero chicken strips, he scrapes the exhaust

Hell yeah brother

>>28466530
Brother, hell yeah

It's a legit race bike or maybe the Buell Supercruiser right now

>>28466561
wtf is this?!

>>28466594
Harley conning boomers into paying 6 figures for a paint job on a Road Glide ST.

>>28466553
I used to have a Magna. Loved the looks, riding it was alright, but the carb and the fuel system gave so much pain I couldn't fully enjoy the bike

>>28465218 (OP)
Fourth from the right.

>>28466530
Rune wins. On maybe goldwing.

>>28466594
Harley competing with Ducati on who can make the most expensive production bike.

>Which muscle cruiser is the best?
It’s definitely a Harley. Which is truly the best is definitely subjective. If I had to pick, it would probably be the FXDR. They look crazy flying down the highway at 150mph.

>>28469999
A 90 hp cruiser can't go that fast. And even if it can, it's limited to 120 mph https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UF4zIhhTmJc#

>>28470235
Meanwhile, a 22 y.o. Subaru can go 180mph with less than $500 in mods.

Bros I want to buy a bike, but I've never driven one nor do I know much about them because I prefer cars. What should I get and what should I avoid? I thought of getting cruiser or cafe racer, also doesn't need to be like CR1000rr powerwise, but I don't want it to be sluggish.

>>28470782
Get some beginner bike like mt03

>>28470782
how do you know what 'sluggish' means if you've never been on a bike? Go take a MSF class.

>>28470870
I think bikes that are slower than average car may be considered sluggish

>>28470782
Come ask dbt

>>28470782
>What should I get

>>28470870
>how do you know what 'sluggish' means if you've never been on a bike?
I don't need to druve bike to know what sluggish means. I mean that I don't want bike that will tear down it's intenals at highway speeds.

>>28470857
Looks cool, I watched a review for a mt07 yesterday. Is mt07 too much for newbie? How big of a difference are 03 and 07 in ptw ratio?

>>28470782
Indian Scout Sixty. Quick but won't kill you. And you can buy a used one for under $7k. I highly recommend buying a cheaper bike as you won't ride it much. That way when you only ride it a few times a year it's not a big deal.

>>28471031
I saw them when I was searching cruisers, but sadly there are no used ones on sale where I live and new one is expensive for me. After all I'm inexperienced and should get cheaper one for start so that it wouldn't hurt my wallet if I break it.

>>28471018
mt03 will make you sad
mt07 will make you happy

The original Eliminator. Kawasaki didn't have a big V twin or V4 at the time so they just slapped the Ninja 900 engine into a cruiser chassis.

>>28470782
If it's a cruiser you want, look for a mid-2000s or later Honda shadow. They are everywhere. You can find 750 cc 45 hp shadows all day every day for 1500-3k, and the engines are dead reliable, even at higher milages. The 1100cc models aren't much more expensive usually either. It doesn't struggle with highway speeds.

Or really just any metric cruiser from that era, they are almost all carberated and there tons of them for very cheap.

DO NOT BUY A CAFE RACER FOR YOUR FIRST BIKE. Cafe racers are basically a style of modification done that emulates the style of Cafe racing bikes from like the 60s. Any Cafe racer you buy is going be either way too expensive for what it is, or someone's hack job they booger welded back together.

Just go buy a used cheap 750cc cruiser. it's going to be more than enough for your first ever bike. It's a good mid sized cruiser to learn on, tons of aftermarket to customize. You can always sell it and upgrade once you get your skills up and take what you learned you liked and didn't like to influence your next purchase. Keep in mind, engine configuration on bikes matters too as far as power output goes. A v twin like a shadow isn't going to push hp or top speed numbers like a 4 cylinder would of similar displacement.

Go take the msf course. It'll get you up to par with the basics of riding, at least enough that you can actually learn to ride from there. Riding has a higher skill floor than driving does.

>>28471079
Mt03 will make you happy for the first few months

>>28465763
I liked them. My dad's friend had one when I was a kid and they were new. Tried to buy one a couple times, but every time one comes up at a good price it sells too quickly.

>>28471140
Now this is the real advice I asked for, thank you! This might be what I was looking for and might get once I get myself the bike licence.

the real comparison here is diavel and vmax which vmax takes by quite large margin

rocket 3 is like a aircraft carrier, forget it

>>28470235
Motors capable of well beyond 90hp with a few simple mods lol

>>28472028
The Vmax is a discontinued 2009 model with no updates since then, isn't as powerful as a Diavel V4 and it weighs over 120lb more. It's not even a comparison anymore.

>>28472041
Whew lad you must be knockin on 95 horses now!

>>28472044
vmax gen 1 ended in 2009, the 2nd gen is 1700cc and 200hp

>smaller 4 cylinder with high redlines
kino

>>28472059
Thanks chatGPT, yeah the second gen Vmax is from 2009, was never updated, hasn't been made for 5 years and is a slow heavy pig compared to the Diavel.

>>28472082
vmax will eat diavel alive in quarter mile

>>28472088
10.02 for the Duc vs 10.11 for Max if you'd bother to Google it before talking shit.

>>28472090
google told me vmax does it 9.7 and diavel 11.2

>>28472091
A modded vmax on a slick went 9 point something once, get better at googling.

>>28472094
so vmax is faster and more reliable than diavel, while being half the price

known diavel issues
>fuel pump failure
>ecu wiping its memory
>inadequate cam lubrication resulting in catastrophic engine failure
>oil leaks around gaskets

>>28472095
Diavel is faster in twisties

>>28472124
with 240 tire? keep dreaming

also
>muscle cruiser
>twisties

>>28471031
why are the handlebars so tall, it looks goofy.

>>28472133
they're meant for lanklets, same reason the pegs are so far forward

>>28472133
Because its made for riding. How many miles do you think pic related actually sees?

>>28472136
Somehow I imagine a spiky-haired dude riding one of these at night with his left arm holding a sword half his weight.

>>28472028
>rocket 3 is like a aircraft carrier, forget it
But it also has an aircraft carrier engine

>>28465218 (OP)
>Which muscle cruiser is the best?
Grom

>>28472184
Yeah

>>28470857
>Get some beginner bike like mt03
it pains me to read shit like that. not because it is true but because I am a 3rd world poorfag and shit like that in high end around here.

fucking hell i need to get out of here some day

>>28465218 (OP)
>Which muscle cruiser is the best?

>>28472140
Man, this reminds me, my friend's wife works at Square Enix (not a dev, something boring like legal or marketing) and they actually had the opportunity to take the life-size Hardy Daytona replica that had been built for the remake launch event home, but had to turn it down because they didn't have a way to transport it. My friend didn't think to ask me, which is a shame because I have a truck and totally would've helped, and instead the "bike" ended up in a dumpster.

>>28473082
Didn't Triumph make a stupid in line cruiser. That's probably still the daftest mass produced bike of that type.

>>28472701
damn a 660cc single cylinder is high end there?

>>28466530