John,
Is Dr. Duc out west? There was a guy I was talking to right after getting the PS that I was whining about the riding position.... and almost all my bikes have clip ons... but the PS... you lean forward to where you think the bar should be, and then lean down about 5 inches more... it was a rack at slow speeds.... over 70 great. Anyway while whining about this on the Sport Classic forum, a back Doc piped up with a way to bring the handle bars up... required moving/swapping brake components, removing the spacer on the clip ons.. just remember him asking me how old I was... and I'm 45, an ex cop, former pro fencer...in what I thought was in pretty good shape and getting a reply that he was over 55 and rode every day to his practice over an hour one way, but if I was interested, he was a back doc and could possibly help me. I stopped whining...
No, the fairing on the PS does not seem to effect anything... it's wide open in the front, if anything it might be forcing air in closer to the engine. Great bike, pulls like a tractor and I can really surprise the kids on the liter jap bikes.... it accelerates so hard out of corners and corners so well.... it just leaves them behind.
It's a 1985.
I bought the Vmax in 1995 from a guy that put 1000 miles on it and scared himself out of riding it, It was in great shape, except that the owner liked the '94 version where they had painted half the scoops and side covers to match the body paint.
That was the start of the changes.... powder coating the scoops, grab rail and side covers..........
And then I found the V-Max owners group.... which is basically a group of guys that are more than willing to help you add things to make a fast bike faster and look better.... and they have contacts all over the world, so I had parts from MEK in Germany, Over Racing from Japan, ACT from Switzerland, Custom 4-1-2 exhaust from PCW in the USA.... probably close to 15k in that bike over the years which includes things that I did and then scrapped and re-did. Paint was by Mike of Killer Paint.
Lesson there was to get things done BEFORE the painter goes on TV with Jesse James as his go to paint guy... prices escalate pretty fast from that point forward. Which is good for Mike... great guy, very talented, not so good for my wallet... should not have waited a year to get it done would have saved half. But the job was great.. and never regretted having him do the work... never ending compliments on that bike from sport and Harley riders.
Great bikes..... where were those shots taken?
