HARLEY DAVISON SPORTBIKE(VR1000)

ENJOY.

[@roadking.118]

This proves harley could bring the bronx to life...and they choose disappointment everytime. The pan am is proof they can do something new and we would accept it.

[@turboslag]

I remember the announcement of the VR1000, it was massively exciting at the time! I bought all and any mag that had articles on it, still have them!! I was a hardcore Ducati guy, still am, but that VR1000 was big news and I wanted one, BAD! Then the development dragged on and on, meantime the competition became better and faster, Harley just never caught up. Must dig out all those mags and refresh my memory!

[@ducaduke]

That is so rad bro!

[@bradstrouse8685]

I remember these turds. It had all the looks of a bike from the. 70’s in the 90’s. I remember telling Scott Russel sorry he had to ride that thing at mid Ohio.

[@seditioangelus4222]

Not sure why the old Harley boys don't like the v-rod, it's popular everywhere outside the u.s. I like my 03 v-rod, definitely won't perform as great as any of my sport bikes but still enjoyable to ride.

[@rickburnout666]

The VR would have been a great bike if they had kept making them, I do love the baggers racing, and they're not that much slower than the sports bikes on tracks, and that takes some skill to do

[@ericalger5003]

The race baggers are pretty far off the pace of the 1000cc sportbikes.

[@stevebigansky9372]

Sorry, but the engine in that bike wasn't designed by anyone at HD - It was designed and manufactured in GERMANY just like their V Rod motor - The only designed American part on that motorcycle was the friggin PAINT JOB- the so call "engineers" at Harley Davidson are totally INCAPABLE of designing anything that complicated

[@ducaduke]

Damn spicy 🌶️ lol. It’s history.

[@stevebigansky9372]

One of my fondest memories of the VR1000 was being at Mid Ohio at the AMA national in '94 when Mike Smith's VR ventilated the engine cases and burned to the ground and the photo showing the ten foot high flames above the bike and the only visible part remaining part of the motorcycle being the tail section with his Infamous number 911 showing -

[@ducaduke]

@@stevebigansky9372 😮😮

[@tokyosmash]

That engine began life as a napkin drawing from Erik Buell, then to Cosworth.

[@stevebigansky9372]

@@tokyosmash I was informed of the entire history of that motorcycle from Steve Schibe who was the project leader at HD for the VR1000 when my guy Nick Ienatsch, editor of Motorcyclist magazine tested the VR at Mid Ohio in '94 - everything from WHO designed the engine, where it was built, and who designed and manufactured the chassis (Spondon) -

[@svgs650r]

Remember when that pile ran intermittently at Daytona and Russell coasted it into the hot pit and before the “chain-drive wallet” Motor Company crew could crawl over the wall Russell dropped that turd on the ground and retired to his motor home! 🤣

[@kellyelliott4061]

Duhamal crashed on the last lap at Brainard while leading. That was the best race for the Harley. They should have stayed in road racing longer than they did.

[@roadking.118]

I gotta say.... even tho the v rod got trashed on back then... the new gen (that includes me) are a lot more open to new idea and new bikes. The old way of thinking is def being slowly fazed out

[@vicenterr7]

Looks great

[@CaptDesmo]

Smokey Yunick said it himself... "the throttle bodies are too big...."

[@frankweathersbee2553]

Awesome story on the VR! but now all these Bagger A holes wheeling around the neighborhood. 🤣

[@ducaduke]

Haha true.

[@johncarter1150]

Crown Victoria? Laughing my ass off!

[@MrAckers75]

It looks ok but that front end looks like a design from the 1960s lol

[@paulfleming4710]

That bike wasnt capable of racing with factory bikes. I did end the careers of top riders though. Harley..wanted the sound and look of a harley. That was harleys down fall. Soooo..racing sanctioning bodies formed harley only classes or gave harley huge advantages.aka drag bikes. Its sad harley should have been innovative and racing. They build cruisers NOT performance bikes.

[@jimmycapps7263]

it was a turd that just would not flush.

[@ianburnett4605]

It was hopeless

[@carlosoruna7174]

Harley racer ? Lmao the Ducati liter twin smoked the vr1000

[@tokyosmash]

The Ducatis at the time had trouble finishing races in AMA superbike, it wasn’t until the 851 that Duc could even get away from Harley at Battle Of The Twins

[@matthewcumberland6877]

Troy Corser and Pascale Picott were killing it in Superbike in the early to mid nineties. As a friend of mine pointed out.Harley had been making vee twins longer than anyone. And we're the only ones who couldn't make one go fast.

[@tokyosmash]

@@matthewcumberland6877 Pascal did great at the 98’ Daytona 200 until a shit pitstop killed his chances, killed the bike in 99’ in a wreck. Scott Russell was on pace to be top 5 in 99’ and got in to a bar fight. Don’t forget how much a dominant force the XRTT was in BOTT.

[@gregkeller80]

Does anybody know how to pronounce Porsche correctly? Geez

[@johncarter1150]

Harley Davidson has Alzheimers disease.