P.S.
Does the wife get out much now?

Two Gen 1's (04' and 05')
Saw the Gen 2 at a dealer one day and traded 05' for it, with a little cash.
Had Gen 2 for 3 yrs and 16,000 miles and sold it this past spring.
Miss it at times. First time without bike in 20 yrs.
May get the bug again.

Well here's my story...Loved the Gen1 since it came out in '85, but definitely couldn't afford it with first child on the way. So I put it in the back of my mind. As the years went by and I would occasionally see one and get a chance to talk to the owners. It was always the same thing. "Great bike but the insurance is killing me." Back to the back burner it would go. A few bikes came and went, nothing that really turned me on. Then one summer I had three very close calls on my bike. My daughter was 8 and my son 5, I sold the bike and was done with it. Fast forward 15 years, kids are out of the house and I actually have some extra cash. Walking by a magazine rack in the drug store and there it was, "My bike". Not one to buy a new model year of anything, I waited until the summer of 09. When the specs came out on the '10 model and they changed nothing from the '09, the hunt was on. Found a new '09 at a dealer 120 miles away, bought it over the phone.

I had 3 gen1's in row, then took a break from them...bought a gs adventure, very practical...but boring as all hell. Then bought a Hayabusa...it went fast, but even that dident "feel" as fast as the original v-max. So when the new one came out, i waited for a seconf hand one to come on the market, and snapped it up...

You just cant beat that V4 attitude. So i guess the reason i bought is there is nothing else like it out there, for me it defines what a motorcycle should be, fast...scary....loud...the sort of thing that if you saw as a kid, you would dream of owning. Who dreams of owning a gs adventure?.... if you want practical, get a car, if you want to feel like a god damn fire breathing balistic son of a bitch...get a vmax.

hammer wrote:
4 years of the same model with NO CHANGES. A hard act to follow in the performance bike world me thinks.
We havn`t even started lifting the heads yet!
MAX has much more to give yet. The story is only just beginning

Personally, nothing inspired me really. It was more along the lines of the fact that I wanted something different from what everyone else has, which goes for most things I do or have. Crotch rockets, I call em trend machines, all look the same to me and Hardleys... well most of us know why that wasn't an option, are something I wanted to stay away from. I had no idea the vmax even existed and I was picturing something exactly like a max until I saw an 06 on the showroom floor and I knew IMMEDIATELY that that was the bike I had to have. Fell in love right away. Again saw an 11 on the showroom floor and walked away and literally couldn't stop thinking about it. I kept justifying reasons to buy it until I came to the conclusion that justification wasn't necessary. Having it was. Now shes my bitch. A part of me, my partner and the love of my life. I will never part with it. It would have to be pried from my cold dead hands atop a pile of mangled lifeless corpses, the ones that attempted to take it from me in the first place. I never thought that some THING, let alone a machine, could be the love of my life. Goddamn I love this bike.

YEAH!!! ^^^^^^^

6669charger wrote: What a sissy!

tomf5327 wrote: Tom, I pity your scooter right now

johnnywaite wrote:
You voiced my opinion down to the small letters!