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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
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 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 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.
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!
Guys if Mike told you he would make you one of his one off X-Pipes. Wait! Wait! Wait for it and when he's done it will be well worth the wait.. I'm telling you the sound that comes out of the a$$ end will bring nothing but and the quality-fit and finsh is top notch.. And the is good too!! Most of all, Mike is one of a kind.. He will help when you don't ask and lead you in the right direction for any help needed.. I have nothing but good things to say about him as you can tell.. Mike you ROCK!!!
I have the Big windscreen and the tank pad.Both are from high quality and the Big windscreen is very very helpfull I can travel with 180 Km/h (europe) without any problem(I am 1,89m)!Now I will buy the OEM tank BAG which available only in europe part num. 907-981Y3-08-00 and I will post my thought here!Se ya!
VMaxChuck wrote: Looks like I got a bunk at Iron Horse for Saturday thru Monday nights! Hope you get in early on Tuesday Oliver so I can meet you. I have to ride back to Chattanooga Tuesday night and trailer back to Michigan on Wednesday... Really looking forward to meeting the Vmax and Warrior crowd!!
I too hope this will work out.
Trying to get on the earliest flight on Tuesday to get to Knoxville on Tues.
itgoes wrote: MsRandiGalves wrote: itgoes wrote: I'm gonna tape up the wheel good before I try any tricky maneuvers. I'll get back on it tomorrow.
Good luck sweetie!!!!!!!!!!! Send us photos tomorrow!
Got it. Had to angle it big time like you said Randi. Big angle...tuck the housing deep in the wheel.....slide in a little, and straiten out. This was just a dry run to see if my modified cover will fit/work. Lot's of fun!
Thanks for all the replies Guys and Gals, I appreciate it! Where else could you get help like this at this time of night!?
Ok plan on adding another horse to the stable always fun started out looking at the simple Suzuki DRZ400 SM but wtf are they crazy to ask 1.5k more for a detuned DRZ450 some street tires and lights? Word also is tou have to rev the piss out of the thing.
So continued down the road KTM Aprilia and Husky dealer Aprilia 550 vtwin not so hot long motor life Husky omg ever sit on 1 like a brick and smog parts hangin off all over the motor.
KTM Duke690 or used 640 very nice single pumping out 65hp rear wheel in a 300 lb package they just seem like a blast to ride and flick around like the old dirt bike days.
Option 2 09 Super Dukes aparently made too many of them now offered at 5K off msrp in the same price of the single duke now tou get 400 lbs 120 hp 990 V-twin also light weight compared to monster max
Ok here is the question anyone here have either of these bikes or Supermotard style bike as second? I know KTM is funky styled but so is Mr Max thanks Tyler
and the quality-fit and finsh is top notch.. And the 
is good too!! Most of all, Mike is one of a kind.. He will help when you don't ask and lead you in the right direction for any help needed.. I have nothing but good things to say about him as you can tell.. 
Mike you ROCK!!! 
I have to ride back to Chattanooga Tuesday night and trailer back to Michigan on Wednesday... 
Really looking forward to meeting the Vmax and Warrior crowd!! 
