Short Stories #1 - When Harley Went Racing | The HD VR1000 Story

Disclaimer - FUCK KZbin. Cutting off the last fifteen seconds of my video.
I've returned!
I've been wanting to start a video essay series for quite a while now, and i figured I'd start with one of my favorites to kick back off more consistent uploads. Yes, I know it's not perfect, but if you expect perfection from a channel that hasn't posted in a year with about 25 subscribers, you need a reality check.
Aaaanyways, feel more than welcome to leave your suggestions for the next Short Stories video or any other kind of content you want to see in the future, I've got plans I hope I can bring to fruition.
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[@paullacey2999]

It failed as a race bike but I still love it,Just because sometimes H-D do different.

[@svgs650r]

Anybody remember the 2000 Daytona race where Mr Daytona was riding that Turd and it broke for the eleventeenth time and Russell coasted into the hot pit and unceremoniously dropped the VR on the ground in disgust before the chain-drive wallet crew could grab it, ROFL - then hopped the pit wall and retired to his motorhome!

[@tokyosmash]

The failure that was the XR? The XRTT was a beast in its day and held its own in BOTT until the end

[@motoed]

Cool story. I ran across one of those this summer. It’s in a cool little shop in Kenton Ohio. It’s stacked beside an old xr road racer and a ton of other vintage bikes. I took a photo of it and posted to my Instagram… a few weeks ago I was at the AFTport royal race and was seated with Chris Carr who raced one on the team… I showed him the photo and he said it that was Tripp Nobles bike and it was fun to see him go “oh I remember that thing…”

[@agcgilmour]

Harley Tucson had a VR100 for sale! $75,000!

[@adobedirtblues1321]

Question, If Harley Davidson made an airplane, would you fly in it?

[@markwinchester3005]

Interestingly the 2009 Darwin Model 1 bobber also featured Wilwood brakes?

[@CaptDesmo]

Picotte would have finished the Daytona 200 in the box if not won it!!! until the axel stripped.....

[@848evo4]

well your pictures were nice but your information was not very accurate

[@therealjonnyringo]

They had a little success with Russell and Picotte. I love the weird look of the VR now more than i did living with it every week on the track

[@kanjo7132]

Every week on the track? Please elaborate. Were you involved with the VR1000 in some way?

[@kanjo7132]

Every week on the track? Please elaborate. Were you involved with the VR1000 in some way?

[@kanjo7132]

Every week on the track? Please elaborate. Were you involved with the VR1000 in some way?

[@therealjonnyringo]

@@kanjo7132 nah, i meant watching them all season each week while on track, i thought they were weird and ugly then.. saw them in brainerd and road america in person.. now that we are 20 years later i would love to have one in the garage.

[@fillman86]

I like the video, but here's a quick tip, if you put some music or something in the background, it'll smooth out the audio edits. This is because when your audio is playing, there's a slight hiss in the background that would otherwise be hard to notice, so hop into your youtube studio, find the audio library and pick something out :) and now I think I'll subscribe, because I want to see more of this (just with some extra audio in the background haha)

[@kanjo7132]

Well I really appreciate that. I honestly agree, as soon as it left the editor I was like "wait no I forget music." But at that point I just knew I needed to get SOMETHING out, I'll put more effort into the next one. Next video might be GT Sport races though, we'll see.

[@fillman86]

@@kanjo7132 gaming content is good, but I like stories like this one your told a lot

[@Dino-krfe]

nice video, I think I may enjoy a bit more editing, like more written stuff while you talk, maybe some more vids instead of only pics and some better transitions (especially after the intro theme). btw nice story telling

[@kanjo7132]

Im sure it does. I need to stop using iMovie honestly lol. This video is far from perfect but I know it's not going to blow up or anything, so I wasn't too worried about it. I suppose if you need more written stuff while I talk there are subtitles 😂

[@kanjo7132]

Also, it's apparently really fckin hard to find video footage of the VR1000 lmao

[@Embargoman]

Well, I got a name for it. Call it Harley-Davidson Soul, not to confuse with Seoul as to what he into development of sports racing for Harley-Davidson is that the Soul is just a name catch to beat the Japanese brands to the punch. It is developed in the US and South Korea most likely South Korea for the most part of the engineering but is made both in the US and South Korea. So it is called Soul because is faster than the fastest bike that comes from Japan and to abbreviate with Seoul because it has to be a secret toward Harley-Davidson where they develop their bike. The Soul is very fast that blows out any competitor away for International markets is built in South Korea where is developed and for North America is built in the USA as what comes to develop as Harley-Davidson Korea division specialized only on high performance development for racing. So HDK will develop the Soul and yet the HDK headquarters are headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, while manufacturing of the HD Soul is made in the USA and in South Korea. Let’s see how well it goes when Harley-Davidson goes to make a motorcycle like this in South Korea?

[@BelloGigante]

Is this guy narrating a video wearing a MASK?

[@neelnag627]

300 views pog

[@Streetburner15-y1w]

harley street glide track bike

[@kanjo7132]

I'll do some more research on that and it might just become a future video. Thanks for the idea.