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Motorcycle Cruiser Magazine 1100 and 1200 V-Twin Cruiser Comparison Road Test Motorcycle Cruiser magazine 1100 and 1200 V-twin cruiser comparison road test Suzuki Tests and Reviews Motorcycle Group: Motorcyclist | Sport Rider | Dirt Rider | MX Racer | ATV Rider | Super Streetbike Home Current Issue News and Updates Road Tests The 'Tweener Twins: 1100 and 1200cc Motorcycles Compared Seven ways to big-twin-motorcycle performance and capability without the bulk--or the price. Rides and BMW R1200C, Harley-Davidson V-Rod, Harley-Davidson Sportster 1200 Custom, Harley- Destinations Davidson Sportster 1200 Sport, Honda 1100 Shadow Spirit and Sabre, Moto Guzzi 1100 California, Yamaha V-Star 1100 Classic. Photography by James Brown (email: kingosoul@aol. Tech and Custom com) Street Survival Motorcycle Escape Wedged between the top- of-the-line big twins and Accessories the 800-to-900cc On Newsstands Now! SUBSCRIBE NOW & Gear machines, which are perceived (probably GIVE A GIFT Contact Us unfairly) as inadequate SUBSCRIBER for serious riders, there is SERVICES SHOP FOR a middle ground inhabited PARTS by twins displacing 1100 to 1200cc. Savvy riders Motorcycle Cruiser know that the bikes in this Store range offer the performance and function MotorCareers of a big twin at a much less shocking price. Subscribe At Santa Paula, California Airport, the seven contenders take a break with two beautiful biplanes, one old and one modern, Subscriber supplied courtesy of Screaming Eagle Aviation . The class has been Services around since 1985, when Yamaha hogged out its Virago 1000 engine to create the 1063cc Virago 1100 and gain a Back Issues displacement edge on the Harley 998cc Sportster 1000. However, Yamaha didn't get the displacement niche all to itself because that year Honda also rolled out its first Shadow 1100, MOTORCYCLE which sister magazine Motorcyclist was comfortable calling "a big-displacement V." Back then, OFFERS 1099cc was plenty of displacement. Only Harley's then-new 1340cc Evolution engine (available in an expansive range of three cruiser models plus the Electra Glide tourer) was a bigger V- Honda Motorcycle twin. Parts Harley Davidson Sponsored Links Motorcycles Honda Motorcycle Honda VTX HD Dyna Saddlebags 100% Made in USA over 80,000 saddlebag and option combinations. Honda Magna www.LeatherConneXion.com Harley (Hog) Screen Saver A classic Harley Davidson is drawn on your computer. Try It - Buy It! www.DrawingHand.com Biker Dating Meet Tens of Thousands of Biker Singles, Admirers. Register Free. www.BikerKiss.com Though Kawasaki and Suzuki bypassed the 1100 to 1200cc class in favor of bigger V-twins http://www.motorcyclecruiser.com/roadtests/1100s/ (1 of 10)7/6/2004 4:45:59 PM Motorcycle Cruiser magazine 1100 and 1200 V-twin cruiser comparison road test introduced in 1987, the rest of the players have kept the class active for almost two decades. Harley launched its Sportster 1100, based on the new Evolution design, in 1986 and bumped it to 1203cc in 1988. The basic 1200 with relatively minor changes remains in Harley's 2003 line, which over time has expanded to also include the Sportster 1200 Custom and Sportster 1200 Sport, armed with a hopped-up engine and a slightly tweaked chassis. More recently, Harley Not everyone wants to join the rearranged everyone's thinking with the 1130cc V-Rod, the V-twin parade, and BMW's firmÂ’s first completely new model in over four decades. opposed twin offers some Honda also made a series of revisions and derivative models clear advantages, both inside based on its 1100 V-twin, though for 2003 only two models, and outside of the engine bay. the Spirit and Sabre, are left. The ACE, Aero and Shadow Tourer are not in the '03 line. The popular supposition is that the new VTX 1300 is the first of a Sign up for our series that will shoulder the 1100s aside. Yamaha's Viragos were discarded in favor of the V- Free Newsletter! Star 1100 series, new bikes that use the same basic engine layout in an entirely new chassis with contemporary styling. There are three V-Star 1100 models for 2003, all of which use the same engine and basic chassis. Others also joined this in-between cruiser class. In 1988, Moto Guzzi introduced its first 1100cc California model, which like other Guzzis used an across-the frame V-twin. In 2002, Guzzi offered five variants on a single engine/chassis combination in the California line. Most recently, BMW joined the fray with its 1200 cruiser in 1998. For 2002, the same basic engine and running gear was available in three different trim variations, and has been fitted to a full-dress touring variant for 2003. With 16 different models of these 1000 to 1200cc twins, it obviously wasn't going to be practical to gather them all for a test. Fortunately, we didn't need to. Instead we narrowed it down to just one of each basic engine-chassis combination. That meant that the BMW Phoenix could fill in for all five R1200C variants. Harley's Sportster 1200 Custom and basic Sportster 1200 use the same basic running gear, so we just signed up for a Custom, which was joined by the Sportster Harley offers two different 1200 Sport with its unique engine and sporting-oriented familes. The venerable frame and running gear and, of course, the completely Sportster 1200s, represented different V-Rod. Both the remaining Honda 1100s, which by the Custom (in white) and have different gearing and chassis geometry, joined the the Sport (blue), are joined by herd. Guzzi's California EV was selected to represent its the 1130cc V-Rod. clan, and the Custom rendition of the V-Star 1100 family carried the Yamaha flag. That left us with a more manageable eight bikes. However, as we were preparing to depart on our test ride, we discovered that the Guzzi's fuel cap would not unlock, which meant that it stayed behind and dropped the count to seven times eleven. Cruise Control We spent a leisurely three days cruising the 1100s around some of Southern California's more scenic roads and towns. Our ride spirited us north up Pacific Coast Highway toward Santa Barbara with a side trip through the Santa Monica Mountains, then took us inland to Ojai and Santa Paula to time-travel at the nicely restored train station and the Santa Paula Airport, where we sidled up next to a couple of biplanes for photos and peered into the old hangar where Honda has tried quite a few Steve McQueen used to keep his bike collection, sometimes variants of its V-twin, but the even sleeping with it. The roads ranged from freeway, to 2002 line consists of the street- open highway, to uncrowded back roads, to meandering rod styled Sabre (front) and ribbons of asphalt spilling across mountainsides, to scenic the more traditional Sabre. main streets in little towns away from the beaten path and back to city streets. We stopped and enjoyed unexpected waterfalls that somehow manage to keep running despite California's prolonged drought, and we sweltered while video crews from the Speed Channel asked us to make "just one more run" past their cameras for a piece on "Motorcyclist TV." Of course, the bikes also saw daily duty, running us to work or out for a relaxing evening or weekend rides. By the time our core testing crew was done, each of us had a pretty solid idea of which bikes were our favorites. A motorcycle introduces itself the first time you walk up to it and fire it up for the first ride. Its willingness to start and respond to throttle gives a sense of the engine's personality, and as you settle into the saddle, you get your first impression of how it will fit you. The Sportsters come to life a bit reluctantly, demanding choke unless warm, then shaking and spitting for a bit until warm. By contrast, the V-Rod lights when the starter is punched and, thanks to fuel injection, http://www.motorcyclecruiser.com/roadtests/1100s/ (2 of 10)7/6/2004 4:45:59 PM Motorcycle Cruiser magazine 1100 and 1200 V-twin cruiser comparison road test idles immediately and smoothly. The BMW is also injected but often requires a bit of cranking before it catches. When it does, the bike wants to lean to the right slightly in response to the engine torque reaction. The Yamaha usually starts without choke unless it is a cold morning and is ready to go immediately. Both Hondas usually want some choke but warm pretty quickly. There are two very similar versions of Yamaha's V-Star The ergonomics and 1100 air-cooled V-twin, and we riding positions start to chose the more comfortable separate these machines. and traditional Classic model. The V-Rod, resplendent in its anodized alloy bodywork, with its radically foot-forward and slightly leaned- back rider posture represents one extreme The Sportster Sport is the other end of the class, both in terms of style and its slightly sporty statement. The Sport's rough-hewn purebred American style greets the rider with its pegs somewhat rearward, a low and narrow handlebar and a canted-forward riding position over the small fuel tank. The BMW Phoenix catches the eye with its unusual suspension and frame arrangement, the absence of a swingarm on the left and a unique black and yellow paint scheme. It offers its With no left side on its rider a wide, low-rise bar, a broad solo saddle backed up by swingarm, it's unique front an unusual luggage carrier behind it, and footpegs kept suspension, and a luggage somewhat rearward by its projecting cylinders.
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