VICTORY MOTORCYCLES 2017 Closed course. Professional riders. Do not attempt. 02 VICTORY MOTORCYCLES ‘17 Victory® has always focused on performance. For 2017, America’s most innovative and aggressive The design brief for the very first Victory motorcycle motorcycle manufacturer is geared up for its most was simple: build a motorcycle that’s more powerful powerful year ever, redefining what an American and handles better than any other American cruiser. V-twin motorcycle can be. The bikes in this catalog Performance has been in our blood since day one. are just the beginning of a new era in American motorcycle performance. Eighteen years later, Victory remains dedicated to the pursuit of performance. From the Isle of Man to Pikes Peak to Pomona Raceway, we test our THIS IS MODERN AMERICAN MUSCLE. technology at the world’s toughest racing events and THIS IS VICTORY. apply the lessons we learn directly to our production lineup to build the best American motorcycles yet. 03 PAGE 12 370Nominal voltage of the0 lithium-ion battery module that powers the 11775, Victory RR electric race bike. For comparison, that’s nearly double Number of feet that adds up to 2.23 miles, the nominal voltage of the battery the distance stunt rider Joe Dryden traveled ® pack found in a Toyota Prius. ® with the rear wheel of his Victory Octane Read more about Victory Racing® spinning on March 2, 2016, at Orlando World at the TT Zero on page 52. Speedway in Orlando, Florida, to set an official Guinness World Record® for the world’s longest VICTORY RR ELECTRIC RACE BIKE motorcycle burnout. Learn more about the 104-horsepower Octane on page 12. TOYOTA PRIUS Closed course. Professional rider. Do not attempt. PAGE 52 FEET OF ELEVATION GAINED DURING THE 43 EIGHTEEN 12.42-MILE PIKES PEAK Number of countries, across six Number of years that have passed since the first Victory® motorcycle, continents, that Swiss endurance the V92C, rolled off the assembly line. Victory has been known for HILL CLIMB. CHECK OUT rider Urs “Grizzly” Pedraita expects building the most-powerful, best-handling American V-Twin cruisers to cross during his 100-day, ever since. Our 2017 cruiser lineup starts on page 18. VICTORY’S PIKES PEAK 62,000-mile Race Around the World, RACER ON PAGE 14. setting a new record for the fastest SINCE trip by motorcycle around the world. Learn more about Grizzly’s race on 1998 page 46, and see the Victory Cross Country Tour on page 42. PAGE 18 4,720 04 VICTORY MOTORCYCLES ‘17 IGNITION PROJECT 156™ COMBUSTION 6 2017 MODEL LINEUP by Urs Erbacher by Roland Sands Design by Zach Ness NUMBER OF CONCEPT BIKES THAT FORESHADOWED THE RELEASE OF 10 1200CC PLATFORM VICTORY’S OCTANE. 12 VICTORY OCTANE® 3 14 RACING TO THE CLOUDS The first concept, a collaboration between Victory Racing and Roland Sands Design,® was the Project 156 Pikes Peak Racer. 16 TEAM VICTORY The second concept, named Ignition, was built by Swiss drag 18 CRUISER PLATFORM racing legend Urs Erbacher in the style of a naked sportbike to 20 VICTORY HAMMER® S slay mountain passes. The third concept, Combustion by Zach Ness, was inspired by American musclecars. 22 VICTORY GUNNER® 24 HEAD 2 HEAD 26 VICTORY HIGH-BALL® 28 VICTORY VEGAS® 30 WE’VE GOT YOUR BACK 4=1 32 BAGGER PLATFORM ALL VICTORY MOTORCYCLES ARE 34 VICTORY CROSS COUNTRY® ASSEMBLED IN THE U.S.A. IN SPIRIT LAKE, IOWA. 36 VICTORY MAGNUM® Learn more about the men and women who 38 DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME build Victory Motorcycles on page 54. 40 TOURING PLATFORM PAGE 54 42 VICTORY CROSS COUNTRY TOUR® 44 VICTORY VISION® 46 RACING AROUND THE WORLD 48 ELECTRIC PLATFORM 50 VICTORY EMPULSE® TT PAGE 24 52 HIGH ON VOLTAGE PAGE 34 Number of stock Victory Freedom® 106 V-twin 54 OPERATING OUTSIDE DESIGN PARAMETERS engines it takes to match the horsepower 180Number of minutes it takes a Victory Cross Country output of a single 160-cubic-inch Victory Pro 56 VICTORY TECHNICAL FAQ to complete its journey down the assembly line Stock engine that powers the Victory Racing 60 VICTORY APPAREL at Victory’s assembly facility in Spirit Lake, Iowa, NHRA® Pro Stock race bike. Read more about 62 ACCESSORIES PAGE 46 making 24 stops along the way. Learn more about the husband-and-wife NHRA Pro Stock racing the Cross Country on page 34. team of Matt and Angie Smith on page 24. 64 SPECIFICATIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS 05 06 VICTORY MOTORCYCLES ‘17 07 OCTANE® HAMMER® S VICTORY GUNNER® Suede Super Steel Gray White Graphic over Gloss Black Suede Green Also available in Suede Titanium OCTANE® HIGH-BALL® HIGH-BALL® Suede Pearl White Suede Nuclear Sunset Orange Suede Black OCTANE® VEGAS® VEGAS 8-BALL® Gloss Black with Racing Stripes Sunset Red Gloss Black 08 VICTORY MOTORCYCLES ‘17 VICTORY CROSS COUNTRY® MAGNUM® CROSS COUNTRY TOUR® Gloss Black Gloss Black Turbo Silver/Gloss Black Also available in Gloss Black Also available in Gloss Blue Fire VICTORY CROSS COUNTRY® MAGNUM® VICTORY VISION® Suede Nuclear Sunset Orange Habanero Inferno Gloss Blue Fire Also available in Gloss Black ® ® ® VICTORY CROSS COUNTRY MAGNUM EMPULSE TT 2016 MODEL SHOWN Sunset Red Also available in Suede White Indy Red Pearl Titanium Silver / Havasu Red 09 JUST WHAT YOU NEED TO GO FAST THE MODERN AMERICAN MUSCLEBIKE PUTS PERFORMANCE FIRST 10 VICTORY MOTORCYCLES ‘17 Closed course. Professional rider. Do not attempt. 1200CC 11 OCTANE® POWER TO BURN Go ahead and light up that rear tire. Octane makes it easy by following the classic American musclecar formula: a powerful motor in a lightweight chassis. What’s left is just what you need to go very fast and nothing else. 12 VICTORY MOTORCYCLES ‘17 Named for the number of turns along the 12.42- mile public road that forms the Pikes Peak Hill Climb racecourse, Project 156 is powered by a race-prepared version of the liquid-cooled V-Twin that motivates the new Victory Octane production motorcycle. Take away the bored-out cylinders and prototype billet heads, and the Project 156 powerplant is remarkably similar to the stock Octane engine. The crankcases and bottom end are identical, for example, and the transmission is shared, too. Race-proven technology meets real-world performance. LIQUID-COOLED, BULLET COWL ALUMINUM FRAME THAT 1200CC V-TWIN THAT AND LED TURN PROVIDES 32-DEGREES HORSEPOWER 104 HP @ PRODUCES 104 HP SIGNALS OF LEAN ANGLE 8000 RPM Victory’s Octane is the two-wheeled expression of the musclecar concept TORQUE 76 FT-LB @ with a modern twist. A liquid-cooled, 1200cc V-twin uses dual overhead 6000 RPM cams and four-valve heads, and puts down 104 horsepower. That’s more horsepower than any Victory motorcycle ever built, making Octane the quickest Victory down the quarter-mile and the fastest from 0-60 mph. LEAN ANGLE 32 DEGREES A stiff and light cast-aluminum frame transmits horsepower directly to the pavement. Sharp steering geometry, a tight wheelbase, and 32 degrees of SUEDE SUPER SUEDE PEARL available lean angle deliver agility previously unknown to American V-twin STEEL GRAY WHITE motorcycles. Fast, capable, stylish, and affordable, Victory’s Octane is the formula for the Modern American Musclebike. GLOSS BLACK WITH RACING STRIPES 1200CC | OCTANE 13 CLO Project 156, built just for TO THE racing up Pikes Peak. 14 VICTORY MOTORCYCLES ‘17 hen an elite team of Victory® skunkworks and Ducati.® Even though the Project 156 engine engineers were searching for the ultimate real- was a one-off prototype constructed just for this race, UDSW world opportunity to stress-test the technology many components — including the engine cases and that formed Victory’s first liquid-cooled engine — the transmission — are identical to what is now found on 60-degree, 1200cc V-twin that powers the Octane® the production Octane streetbike. musclebike — they didn’t need to look any further than Victory Racing returned in 2016 for the 100th-Anniversary the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. This legendarily running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with two difficult racing event, held over a 12.42-mile stretch of bikes: an improved version of Project 156, and the Victory public roadway, requires racers to climb to the finish line Empulse® RR electric- at 14,110 feet. Lined on one side with sheer walls and powered racebike. on the other with terrifying drop offs, and held at an With an astounding oxygen-starved altitude that chokes riders and bikes alike, 192 foot-pounds of the Pikes Peak Hill Climb is the ultimate mechanical test. torque on tap and Victory Racing® challenged the Peak for the first time immunity to the power- in 2015 with a prototype racebike named Project 156 — robbing effects of thin the name is a reference to the number of turns on the air at altitude, the racecourse. A collaboration between the Victory Engineering all-electric Empulse RR team that developed the powerplant in-house and Roland is uniquely suited for Sands Design,® who developed the hand-built chassis that racing at Pikes Peak. carried that powerplant, Project 156 was piloted by Cycle Both bikes are unique World Road Test Editor Don Canet for the race. A crash in expressions of Modern ® the second sector prevented Canet from finishing the race, American Muscle Don Canet making his way up the mountain. but not before he qualified first in the Exhibition Class and from America’s most fourth overall out of 60 total bike entries, easily keeping innovative and aggressive motorcycle manufacturer. pace with established superbikes from Honda,® Kawasaki® Both are equally deserving of the King of the Mountain title.