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Welcome to www.starVmax.com!
Welcome to www.starVmax.com!
The home of the New Next Generation Yamaha Star VMax motorcycle.
The muscle bike that defined power in the 20th century has been reborn as the new king of the hill (197hps/123ftlbs). This site is dedicated to the new Yamaha Star V-Max. We complie news, assemble photos and videos and have the largest online community in the world dedicated to the New V-Max. Check out our V-Max neighborhood pages in your personal profile to find other nearby members.
Now check out our Forum dedicated to the All New Next Generation Yamaha Star V-Max! Click Here
Carbon Fiber has long become THE material for light weight racing applications as well as anything high tech from mountain bikes to aircrafts and spaceships. A material so strong and light that there is virtually no competition for it. In most applications form and looks are secondary to the function - it being super light weight.
Over the past couple of years more and more good looking carbon fiber has hit the accessories market for cars and motorcycles a like. Good looking and real CF usually don't go well together. If it looks perfect, it's printed and then it does not look real. If its real, it usually has flaws, especially around complex shapes.
Air filters are supposed to keep the dirt out of the engine. Unfortunately they are also treated like trade secrets. K&N has long been the leading after market filter provider for most street and race applications out there. Many racers and street riders alike swear by their products.
K&N offers a wide range of custom and universal filters. We use them for the Big Air Setup for ultimate performance. They have proven time and again that they are at the top of performance and longevity - especially if you treat them according to the manufacturers specs and clean them with K&N filter cleaner every 20-50k miles and re-oil them with K&N filter oil. For more information on how to clean K&N air filters see your K&N product manual.
Directly from Jay Leno's blog: A video summary about the VMax he auctioned off, a couple words from Jeff and the proud new owner. Talk about an experience! Welcome to the VMax community!
Jay, get another one! You can spank Conan on it! ;-)
We did it! Our first of many more to come Drag Fest events here in beautiful California. For www.starVmax.com and its members (including our sister site www.rswarrior.com) we went all out and rented the Sacramento Raceway Park for a full day of drag racing, adrenaline, roaring engines, screaming tires and the smell of burned rubber mixed with a hint of race gas. If you have not experienced an event like that, you don't know what you have missed. Better even, if you have not taken your bike down that quarter miles, you have really no idea what it is all about.
There is good riders and there is Randy aka Ranimal aka CruiseMissile. A gifted Custom bike builder and probably the best rider I have met on the streets. Whenever we get a chance we tear up roads together. Unfortunately being 2500 miles apart, keeps that to a once a year activity (at best).
Our September VMax of the month in full action at the Dragon - Route 129 - Deals Gap.
Jay Leno's custom VMax hit the Barret-Jackson auction lot on Saturday. With Jay Leno making a surprise appearance, the bike ends up selling for $120,000. Together with the bike the lucky winner gets Jay's helmet, jacket and can pickup the bike at Jay's private motorcycle garage - tour of the facilities included.
We go
t our hands on some great video footage for the 2010 VMax! Gives the bike way more perspective. That red comes on strong in SoCal sunlight. Go check it out!
Cypress, California – Jay Leno will be appearing in Las Vegas on Saturday, October 10. The star of The Jay Leno Show is no stranger to 'Vegas –he did over 160 stand-up gigs last year. But this time, he's proving that he's really a 'stand-up guy.'
Leno will be at the Barrett-Jackson collector car auction and he'll be helping the famed auctioneers get the highest bid for his customized Star VMAX motorcycle. The proceeds of the sale will go to Bailey's Café, a community program that brings art education to some of New York's toughest neighborhoods.
“Bailey's Café is an arts program,” says Jay, “but since I didn't have any Yamaha musical instruments to auction off, I thought I'd sell my Star VMAX, which was made by Yamaha.”
Cypress, California, August 4, 2009….Star Motorcycles is pleased to announce that the 2010 VMAX will go on sale at Yamaha dealerships beginning today via an exclusive priority delivery customer order program and continue through November 30.
Making its triumphant return to the Star line last season, the all new VMAX has been a hit with the enthusiast motorcycle press and with owners alike. The 2010 Star VMAX features a striking, new Candy Red paint scheme.
You might have seen our Video comparison of one of our members exhaust project. The X-Pipe - as he calls his design - has been discussed in great detail on our forums and until now its performance figures where pure speculation.
Today we had the chance to spend about 2h at our local Dyno shop to perform some testing and tuning. Together with the X-Pipe setup we have recently installed a Power Commander PCIII USB on our test bike, which allows us to fine tune the bikes fuel map to the requirements of the new setup.
Equipped with a Dynojet Wideband Commander for data logging we went out to test what this configuration can deliver and how it compares to the stock bike
Today October 2nd 2009 is a day for the Star VMax history books.
In preparation for the upcoming www.starVmax.com Drag Fest event on October 25th 2009 at Sacramento Raceway, we have done our near final race modifications and put the first bike through tuning.
We set ourselves a lofty goal of beating 200 rwhps in at least STD correction, or about 195 rwhps SAE. Months of tuning and design have gone into the setup of the bike and we plan to have two very similar configured bikes at the track in three weeks, to see what they can do in the quarter 1/4 mile.
Cypress California, August 6, 2009 Notedcustom motorcycle builder Jesse James takes the Star VMAX for a spin in his new hit TV show “Jesse James is a Dead Man” this Sunday August 9th on Spike TV.
Jay Gleason does it again! As reported in great details on our forums, Jay Gleason managed to put the hammer down yet again. Last week he rode a mild custom 2009 Vmax to a breathtaking 9.51 @ 143 mph in the quarter mile.
With the help of Bob Ward (aka Bad_Bob) and Tim Nash (aka VMaxGuru) the racing community witnessed an historic event and what is most likely the start of an even wilder journey.
Within only a few months the new VMax has already attained cult status amongst many racing and muscle bike fans around the world. Now that the legend - Jay Gleason - has shown us once again what racing is all about, we are sure to see a lot more attention from tuners and enthusiasts alike for the all new Next Generation VMax.
Without further due, here is a first hand summary of the events that unfolded by Bob Ward:
Our member blueta71 took on this very interesting side project to build an X-Pipe collector eliminator for the VMax. We got the setup about 2 weeks ago, but due to rain we did not get a chance to film it until this week.
We finally go a chance to run the X-Pipe side by side against a stock 2009 VMax trying to capture the differences in sound.
Even with an HD camcorder the sound cannot be captured to represent real live sound experience. This is a futile attempt to bring you a short clip comparing stock with x-pipe.
This video has been filmed in 1080p HD and produced in 720p for extra clarity and better sound resolution.
I did about 35 miles today on my new Conti 240 rear tire.
I installed the wide wheel and Conti tire in a effort to get better traction on the street, where I was tired of constantly lighting up the stock tire in 1st through 3rd gear when jumping on the throttle. From my past experience I knew that the Metzler, Avon etc. would probably not be any better than stock, but when I saw the Continental Race Attack tire was introduced and researched it (and Oliver spoke highly of it), I decided to buy the wide wheel and tire.
The first turn I took I could feel a pretty big difference. The steering was "heavier" feeling, the bike needs more force to lean it over. It does actually straiten up faster though when transitioning so i would not say that it's slower when "flicking", but it definitely takes more effort. To me this tire feels more secure when going through a corner than the stock one, although I did have one "squirrelly" moment when all the way over scraping the right hand peg. I think it was because I hit some gravel which is plentiful right now on all the roads.
As far as traction straight ahead goes, it hooks up MUCH better. The tire would not break loose the way the stock one does from a roll in first gear. I tried 5 times - each time it hooked and launched me forward with the front wheel first skipping then settling maybe a foot off the ground. Today it was around 65 degrees when I got out.....I can only expect this tire to hook even better during the summer.
So I feel (so far) like I definitely made the right decision, it hooks up great and the handling feels very good. It also looks great.
Mark
Hey Badger, looks like the bike is really coming together. It looks great! I'm looking to pick up a windscreen and was curious about how tall you are. I'm 6'4" (193.04 cm) and could use a little protection from the wind.
Bike looks great! I'm looking to pick up a windscreen and was curious about how tall you are. I'm 6'4" (193.04 cm) and could use a little protection from the wind. At speed it feels like I'm a sheet of plywood exposed to the wind. I'll post this to Badger's thread as well.
Looking forward to the other pictures this weekend.
I like the Avon the best....ok traction and burn outs here and there won't require often tire changes!!
MIKe D
redmax wrote: Thanks to everyone for the comments. I do have the engine guard with extra pegs on mine, and I really do like the change in ride position they offer. I found a stock seat, used, for 75 bucks, so I am going to try it. I will at least have the option of either seat. Anyone with comments or recommendations for a rear tire. The 150 Dunlop on mine has terrible traction. I have managed to mark all of my neighbor's driveways, some not even trying I even lose traction in second gear, and I am really not trying there, and no, I am not abusing the clutch.
The tire would not break loose the way the stock one does from a roll in first gear. I tried 5 times - each time it hooked and launched me forward with the front wheel first skipping then settling maybe a foot off the ground. Today it was around 65 degrees when I got out.....I can only expect this tire to hook even better during the summer. 
I'll post this to Badger's thread as well.
