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posted November 30, 2008 08:08 PM
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Shit Steve, I've never flown in a fighter 
I suspect you've OWNED a few though (or will!)
That is out of my league, they be thirsty bastards. I ALMOST bought a Huey, but my wife postponed it. Now it might be a LOOOONG wait. She's having some other recreational ideas if and when my assets come back to their normal level. Got plenty of cheese though . . .
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bawls
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posted November 30, 2008 08:13 PM
wow, it must be awesome to be rich lol. Hell... I have to scrape, scrounge, and then beg the wife just to go to the track. If you ever decide to buy that huey I've got a friend that can give you a flying lesson or two  . He was Station SAR up in fallon Nevada in hueys. The guy is one of the best sticks i've ever seen. He's also a motorcycle enthusiast and sponsored road racer.
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Stalwart
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posted December 01, 2008 07:36 AM
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wow, it must be awesome to be rich lol. Hell... I have to scrape, scrounge, and then beg the wife just to go to the track.
Dude, you're 22 years old! I'm 46, at your age I had already been a truck driver, heavy equipment operator, purchased commercial property and was going to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona. I bet you'll be MUCH more affluent in 24 years!
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smokinZX14
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posted February 17, 2009 06:52 PM
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The only thing it has to beat is the old max. No one really thinks it will beat a 14 or a busa...nobody who's informed anyway. In the cruiser arena the old max is still king, the vrod can't beat it, the m109 cant beat it. If it beats the old max ...it wins.
I think you might be in for a surprise in a few days, at least stock in the 1/4 mile. Top speed it won't touch the Busa or 14.
Hey Finkstink guess what no suprize it's to slow to out run anyone, well maybe a Vrod lol... .... Your boy Bad_ Max got any ET tickets yet ?? I guess that would be a NO .. 
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bigdtd
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posted February 17, 2009 07:02 PM
smokin is throwin out the red 14 carpet to all vmaxes....
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SteveWFL
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posted February 17, 2009 07:44 PM
fess up, you guys all wish you owned the V-Max!
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Bawls
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posted February 17, 2009 09:21 PM
i do wish that i owned one... that way I could sell it and buy another zx14 and a husky 610SM
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posted February 18, 2009 04:40 AM
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fess up, you guys all wish you owned the V-Max!
If money and garage space was no option ...without question...at least to try for a while.....
absolutely.... 
but I would not go around challenging ZX-14's wif it... 
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BobC
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posted February 18, 2009 04:44 AM
Would you guys in the USA pay $23,000 for the V-MAX though.
It's £16,500 here in the UK, just convert that at 1£ UK = $1.4152 US.
...and that's before any price increases which are rumoured to hit any time now.
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salsa1
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posted February 18, 2009 06:09 AM
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Can't speak for the rest but if my checking account had 3 gazzilion dollars it would be a non - issue...just not that rich to consider it...but I would rather over pay for a new V-MAX than for a Harley....no question there...
I don't believe it reaches $23,000...still overpriced we all agree on that....
Have fun!!
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BobC
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posted February 18, 2009 06:25 AM
I know you don't pay $23,000 for a V-Max, I was pointing out what you WOULD be paying in the USA if you had to pay the UK price.
Bet they would't sell many then.
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SteveWFL
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posted February 18, 2009 07:36 AM
I bet they don't sell many anyway compared to its Bking competitior
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masszx14
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posted February 18, 2009 04:12 PM
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I bet they don't sell many anyway compared to its Bking competitior
You could buy a great used zx14 and a Bking and have 2 mean bikes to
park in the garage for the price of a Vmax! And some change left for tires and such.
To each their own, I wouldn't get one for sure though.
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IMFASTTOO
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posted February 18, 2009 07:56 PM
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Can't speak for the rest but if my checking account had 3 gazzilion dollars it would be a non - issue...just not that rich to consider it...but I would rather over pay for a new V-MAX than for a Harley....no question there...
I don't believe it reaches $23,000...still overpriced we all agree on that....
Have fun!!
THE MAX is expensive for a JAP bike but a bargain compaired to VROD,VICTORY,or any of those big engine supposed hot rod chopper things they sell for 40k+
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redxtcy
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posted February 18, 2009 08:01 PM
msrp is 17,990. my dealer gets only one. i just sold it today before we even got it, at 22,000 otd. and the man is happy.
but it should be coming by friday for us but since i got the paper work done it will never be sitting on our floor.
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Bawls
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posted February 18, 2009 09:01 PM
i bet they sell more than the bking. that has to be the ugliest piece of shit i've ever seen. talk about the edsel of motorcycles.
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smokinZX14
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posted February 18, 2009 09:37 PM
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No Vmaxs at the track tonight .... Is anyone ever going run one of this bikes at the track ??? We had a Vrod and a rocket 3 at the track tonight so if a Vmax would have shown up he would have had someone his speed to run .. I think the Vrod ran 8s in the 1/8 and the rocket run 7.40s , that should be a good race for the allmighty Vmax .. The rocket 3 owner is adding a turbo shorty !!! watch out Mr Vmax ...lol..
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redxtcy
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posted February 18, 2009 09:52 PM
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No Vmaxs at the track tonight .... Is anyone ever going run one of this bikes at the track ??? We had a Vrod and a rocket 3 at the track tonight so if a Vmax would have shown up he would have had someone his speed to run .. I think the Vrod ran 8s in the 1/8 and the rocket run 7.40s , that should be a good race for the allmighty Vmax .. The rocket 3 owner is adding a turbo shorty !!! watch out Mr Vmax ...lol..
they are not on the floors yet on my end of town... i dont know about the rest of the country though
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smokinZX14
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posted February 18, 2009 09:59 PM
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No Vmaxs at the track tonight .... Is anyone ever going run one of this bikes at the track ??? We had a Vrod and a rocket 3 at the track tonight so if a Vmax would have shown up he would have had someone his speed to run .. I think the Vrod ran 8s in the 1/8 and the rocket run 7.40s , that should be a good race for the allmighty Vmax .. The rocket 3 owner is adding a turbo shorty !!! watch out Mr Vmax ...lol..
they are not on the floors yet on my end of town... i dont know about the rest of the country though
There here ... They have allready sold 5 at one of the Dealers....
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redxtcy
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posted February 19, 2009 06:30 AM
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No Vmaxs at the track tonight .... Is anyone ever going run one of this bikes at the track ??? We had a Vrod and a rocket 3 at the track tonight so if a Vmax would have shown up he would have had someone his speed to run .. I think the Vrod ran 8s in the 1/8 and the rocket run 7.40s , that should be a good race for the allmighty Vmax .. The rocket 3 owner is adding a turbo shorty !!! watch out Mr Vmax ...lol..
they are not on the floors yet on my end of town... i dont know about the rest of the country though
There here ... They have allready sold 5 at one of the Dealers....
the bike business moves a lil slower in the mid west i guess.
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TNCHIP
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posted February 19, 2009 01:59 PM
The V-MAX was a preorder bike,so if your dealer didnt send Yammy a $1000 bucks per
bike along with name and address of the buyer no bike will be sent.Yammy sent me marketing crap along with a very nice hardbound book about the MAX well before the bike arrived at my dealer.
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posted February 19, 2009 04:18 PM
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wow, it must be awesome to be rich lol. Hell... I have to scrape, scrounge, and then beg the wife just to go to the track.
Dude, you're 22 years old! I'm 46, at your age I had already been a truck driver, heavy equipment operator, purchased commercial property and was going to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona. I bet you'll be MUCH more affluent in 24 years!
Yeah if he gets a big inheritance like I’m sure TankBoy got. Shit, truck driver - heavy EQ operator - aircraft mechanic - dispatcher; what is that about $14.50 hour combined? He couldn’t buy a toy tank with that income.
University Biology course??? Bullshit TankBoy!!!- you got an undergraduate degree so you could be an aircraft mechanic ? LMFAO!
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posted February 19, 2009 04:34 PM
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good thing the raptor is on our side... surprisingly enough, a helicopter can outslow a jet and terrain mask long enough for one of our other assets to get there. When we were at fallon NV we trained with some topgun guys and were able to "stay alive" for over 10 minutes until our friendly jets got there. Too bad they got tired of dicking around with us and as our jets came in to intercept they dropped a simulated 1000 lb bomb next to us.
The thing is with attack helicopters if they aren’t armed with side winders and are strictly in ground attack mode, I haven’t nothing to worry about; so I slow my F-16 down to say 200 KIAS and roll inverted and look around carefully - look for those whirling rotor blades.
I think I would use my gun on him - more sporting.
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