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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
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 got 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!
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 – 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 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.
The day is December 3rd 2008. The long awaited phone call. The 2009 VMax is on route to San Jose Yamaha. Time to pack up at work and head over for a special afternoon. Here is a raw cut video of that afternoon. No music, no wuss, just the VMax. It deserves to be the center of attention!
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
I have written on the forums about the install of a Wideband Commander on the VMax for measurement purposes. With the arrival of aftermarket exhaust and performance systems, there is a need to measure and adjust the electronic fuel injection of the 2009 VMax.
With the help of our local dyno shop Sport Tech Cycles we have compiled a detailed dyno work-up for the 2009 VMax. While we took great care to make it the most objective analysis possible, it is not scientific by any means. It's intention is to give our readers a solid understanding of the performance of the All New Next Generation Yamaha/Star VMax.
